Lotus: sports cars still ‘essential’

The Alpine A110 came out of left field. It was born during an era of Renault that was hardly the most adventurous, and yet it was its own thing. Light, cleverly engineered, achingly pretty and sensati

The new Polestar 5 is an engineer’s dream come true. Whereas previous Polestars have all been based on a platform shared with other Geely group products, this sports saloon was effectively a clean-she

FIRST THINGS FIRST: WE’RE NOT GOING to discuss politics. What’s proved a useful rule in polite conversation for decades now has a fresh pertinence when getting to the nitty-gritty of a new Lotus. Does

IF WE WERE TO PUBLISH A FOLLOW-UP TO OUR FINAL ERAS gathering, what might the 2035 performance car landscape look like? And looking back at that first 1980s-themed Eras test, how many threads from tha

JUST HOW FAR HAVE WE COME SINCE THE 1980s? The hatchback I’m driving has 324bhp coursing through its front wheels. Deployed with a modicum of skill and mechanical sympathy, that’s sufficient to launch

When a car offers both a four-cylinder and a six-cylinder engine, the four is the entry-level version and the six is the step up. That’s the conventional thinking, at least – and this presented Lotus