Technofile

THE Emira is a strong performer for Lotus, accounting for more than 5,000 of the brand’s 12,000 sales in 2024. The firm has just announced the V6 Turbo SE with a revised manual gearbox to boost precis

The obvious question is whether it would have been easier to soup-up a stock Europa rather than streetify a 47. It’s a fair one, too, especially if you are unfamiliar with quite how different a Type 4

Rottweil is a small town in Germany’s Black Forest with several claims to fame. You can guess the first, not least because there are sculptures of handsome but rather intimidating dogs around the plac

There are few better ways to test a car’s sense of theatre than by throwing it straight into the Mille Miglia – and we’re part of it. Not in a priceless museum piece, but in the wildest, most extrover

Design is not a democracy.” Such a bold statement, wonderfully out of tune with modern group-think, could only apply to a car as radical as the Lotus Esprit. These words were only uttered today by Gio

Caterham has been at a set of figurative crossroads for some time, pondering what will replace the Ford Sigma and Duratec engines it has been using for yonks. Neither the Sigma, a 1.6-litre used in Ca