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£82,845 OTR/£82,845 as tested/£1,049 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’ll conquer the wilderness, but is this £83k Toyota everyday overkill? DRIVER: andy fr anklin WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE, HAVEN’T we? You get home a

Chris Smith bought his first Lotus, an Elise S, in 1996, when he was 23. “It was my only car and people said I was crazy,” he recalls. “But every journey was great fun. I had it for seven years.” He’d

‘STOP!’ YELLS ASTON PARROTT FROM the passenger seat. ‘Stop stop stop.’ That means either something terrible has happened or – as I’m hoping – his photographer’s eye has spotted something too good to m

Car lovers know a true Lotus when they see one. The brand’s core values are among the clearest of any marque on the road, harking back nearly 80 years to the earliest days of Colin Chapman. A real Lot

CONTEXT is everything. Whether it’s knowing how much one loaf of bread costs compared with another, or understanding that a longer route to work will take less time due to prevailing traffic condition