Lotus Emira

The Lotus Emira is one of 104 Lotus Cars models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2022. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Lotus Emira properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan Z, the Tesla Tesla Cybertruck, the Kia Kia EV6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Lotus Emira reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0 L Mercedes-AMG / AMG Mercedes-Benz M139 engine / M139 Turbocharger / turbocharged Straight-four engine / I4 / 3.5 L Toyota Toyota GR engine#2GR-FE / 2GR-FE Supercharg; kerb weight is recorded at 3279 lb; drive goes through 6-speed Aisin Seiki#Aisin AI / Aisin AI Manual transmission / manual (3.5 L) / 6-speed Aisin Seiki#Aisin AI / Aisin AI Toyota U transmission#U660E / IPS automatic transmission; the layout is Transverse mid-engine, rear-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Lotus Cars story

Within Lotus Cars's own catalogue the Lotus Emira sits alongside the Lotus 100T, the Lotus 101, the Lotus 102, the Lotus 107. The record names the Lotus Elise / Lotus Exige / Lotus Evora as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Daniel Durrant under Russell Carr (exterior) / Jon Statham (interior). Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Hethel, Norfolk.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Lotus Emira costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.