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Top 10Manual Gearbox to Survive in These Vehicles for 2026
If you're looking to get your hands on a new vehicle without an automatic transmission, we recommend you act sooner rather than later. There are only 24 options remaining for the 2026 model year, and they're mostly sports cars aimed at serious driving enthusiasts. Unsurprisingly, that number is down from …
Test Drives2025 Lotus Emira: When Passion Prevails4.5/5
The evolution of sports cars from British manufacturer Lotus has led us to the Emira , unveiled four years ago (but launched in Canada in 2023) as an exclamation point on the combustion era. However, the small mid-engined coupe that replaced the Evora will play a bigger role than expected …
Top 10Manual Gearbox to Survive in These Vehicles for 2025
The number of makes and models offering manual transmissions keeps shrinking due to poor sales, new emission regulations, incompatibilities with various driver assistance features and the increasing array of electric and hybrid vehicles, among other things. The 2025 model year will see the Jeep Gladiator, Volkswagen Golf GTI and Golf …
First Drives2012 Lotus Evora S: It won’t change you, except...
Lotus, the little English manufacturer steeped in history, is barely surviving in this era where huge corporations reign supreme. For various reasons, it had to stop producing the Elise and Exige, fun little two-seaters that handle more like go-karts than GTs. To target a different clientele that is just as …
First Drives2010 Lotus Evora: Big game hunter4.0/5
The Lotus name is legendary in Formula One, as much for the 79 victories and seven titles as for the team’s bold and often controversial innovations. Its return to F1 this year, with cars in colours that are reminiscent of its past successes, has been a happy one – even …
Test Drives2009 Lotus Elise: Radical and expensive...
But oh so much fun! In fact, there are very few cars at any price that can offer as powerful a ride and that’s the main reason for buying an Elise. You can forget about luxury or comfort. Z4, Boxster or Nissan Z buyers, basically you’re in the wrong place.
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