Lotus Evora with four-cylinder from AMG more expensive than expected

The Lotus Emira is a special model. It is the last car from the sports car manufacturer that you can still get with combustion engines. Lotus supplies the car with a 405 hp and 420 Nm strong 3.5 V6 from Toyota, a six-cylinder with supercharger that helps the coupé reach a speed of 100 km/h in 4.3 seconds. As a First Edition, that car has an entry-level price of around €140,000. However, the Emira will also be available with a 364 hp and 430 Nm strong 2.0 four-cylinder, a petrol engine derived from AMG and adapted by Lotus, which should give the Emira an entry-level price of less than a ton. Unfortunately, that party doesn’t seem to be going on.

Lotus Emira

Van der Kooi Sportscars, importer of Lotus in the Netherlands, among other things, reports that the CO2 emissions of the Emira with blown four-cylinder are a lot higher than expected. Initially, an average CO2 emission of 175 g/km was assumed, but that turns out to be 195 g/km. This of course has a consequence for the bpm. Van der Kooi Sportscars is aiming for a bpm amount of €23,581 and a price of €115,009 for the Lotus Emira I4 First Edition. Please note, according to the importer this is still an expected starting price, but it seems that the base price of the Emira will exceed €100,000.

Unlike the Emira V6 Supercharged, the Lotus Emira with 2.0 four-cylinder is only available with an automatic transmission. The Emira V6 is available with both automatic and manual transmission. The Emira I4 Turbocharged, as the four-cylinder version is called, sprints to 100 km/h in 4.2 seconds and is therefore slightly faster than its more expensive V6 brother. However, the top speed of the Emira with AMG heart at 283 km/h is slightly lower than that of the Emira with V6.

The first copies of the Emira with six-cylinder are expected in the middle of this year.