Fair to say I’ve always been a Lotus Elise fan. Lightweight, apparently simple yet deceptively, even archly intelligent in concept, it redefined Lotus for its era. It’s incredible to think that the El

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Rivals is probably a stretch for this one – the idea of cross shopping a Noble M500 and a Lotus Emira V6 SE at their relative price and power points something of a weird little fantasy. But what they

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