{"id":92026,"date":"2026-05-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/?p=92026"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:25:08","slug":"seloc-editorial-emira-420-sport-makes-the-case-for-a-sharper-four-cylinder-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/seloc-editorial-emira-420-sport-makes-the-case-for-a-sharper-four-cylinder-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Emira 420 Sport makes the case for a sharper four-cylinder Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 420 Sport takes the four-cylinder Emira further. When Lotus announced it in May 2026, the company called it the lightest and most powerful Emira it had offered to that point. That tells you where it sits in the range. It doesn\u2019t tell you whether you\u2019ll prefer it to a V6 manual on a favourite road.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bb\/2025_Lotus_Emira_V6_in_Vivid_Red%2C_front_right.jpg\" alt=\"Lotus Emira V6 in Vivid Red\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><figcaption>Lotus Emira V6 in Vivid Red. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:2025_Lotus_Emira_V6_in_Vivid_Red%2C_front_right.jpg\">Mr.choppers \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On a drive, pay attention to the first turn of the wheel, how easily the car settles after a bump and what the gearbox does when you leave it to choose. Try another Emira over the same stretch. If you also do track days, ask about the parts of the specification you can use repeatedly on circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows a V6 for comparison. It isn\u2019t the 420 Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we\u2019d want to feel on a test drive of the 420 Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[937,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-news","category-seloc-editorial-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92090,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026\/revisions\/92090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}