Lotus’s new sports car is great in its own right, but can it hold its own against the class leader? We pit it against the venerable Porsche 718 Cayman
Rather than agonising about what might have been made of such cars in years gone by, Lotus is now embracing the new appetites of the world’s sports-car buyers and simply getting on with making those cars the very best Lotuses they can be. After decades of stagnation, it’s embracing change. Unlike the sheep, Lotus has jolted itself out of its old ways and is setting out to prove that, contrary to previous appearances, it really can adapt in order to survive.
So we’re not standing on ceremony. Today we find out how the new Lotus squares up against the benchmark mid-engined sports car with which it has been designed to compete: theIt’s a formidable test for the Lotus for all sorts of reasons, and, since I drove it up to these moorland roads yesterday, I’m already aware of exactly where the Cayman might be vulnerable to the Emira – and where it feels next to invulnerable.
Both cars sit you similarly low in their respective cockpits, but because the Lotus’s scuttle and windowline are lower and its roofline likewise, you still feel a little more squeezed into the Emira than you do the Cayman. The Porsche’s primary ergonomics and cabin layout remain a cut above for outright comfort, but the Emira is now comparably comfortable and accessible.
Where the Cayman GTS offers adaptively damped PASM suspension as standard and cruises really gently and comfortably over long distances, the Emira has passive dampers and a tauter ride by default. It’s a markedly firmer-riding car than the Cayman. It’s more connected-feeling to any given road surface but not much noisier – at least, not when equipped with Lotus’s softer ‘touring’ suspension tune and its road-intended Goodyear tyres.
That would be a monumental upset. For the newly energised underdog to beat the company that has consistently been one of the most profitable in the global car industry for the past two decades, and pouring so much of that profit directly into making incrementally better sports cars, year after year. Against that backdrop, I think the Lotus makes this a tougher call than anyone might really have believed.
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