The BEST FAST DEPRECIATING Sports Car With INSANE PERFORMANCE?! (Lotus Emira Review) 

The parts and labour will still be expensive

@@Limitless365.4 It's a Toyota motor, so it wont be as expensive as other supercars

I want one so bad.

"... once it's deprecated enough" Exactly! Got my V8 R8 just over 18 months ago and I'm in love with it, 100% a car for life. However, I am already looking at reviews of current cars like this or possibly the C8 Corvette Z06 to see what potential car I may get in around 10 years time once depreciation hits rock bottom (and common issues reveal themselves).

They are lovely to drive!

I hugely appreciate the kind words! Glad you like the channel/glad it’s potentially useful for your students 🤙🏽 Luckily the main reason why I don’t work with any manufacturers right now is so that I can remain unbiased - no one’s ever paid me to say anything about a car, hence I don’t have to sugar coat anything! I’ll work on a ‘first sports car’ video with those kinds of parameters soon to help, but my honest suggestion is to go with the car that’ll make you happy for the right price. You have to know what kind of driver you are - what is it about a car that makes you smile? If it’s how it looks then go for the one that looks the best, if it needs to feel planted then go for the one that’s most planted, if it’s most analogue then go analogue, if it’s aggressive and scary to drive then go down that path and I can recommend any which way! But whatever it is it needs to keep you smiling for a while so that you’re satisfied while you keep working towards the big dog car 😅 That’s honestly why I haven’t bought anything silly yet - my MX-5 ticks so many of my boxes right now (raw, aggressive, analogue) that I can’t make going for something else make sense! But cars I don’t reckon will depreciate too much more that I’m guessing are in the right range for you (no idea what your budget is): 981 Cayman and Cayman S (don’t sleep on the non S, and don’t sleep on the boxster, effectively a cheaper route in), 987 Cayman R, Alpine A110, F-Type S (insurance will likely be a nightmare), S3 Exige S (I would want a sport but an S is great value), an Evora in the right spec, 997 Carrera S, Vantage or DB9 (just know if the clutch goes in that vantage it won’t be depreciation you need to worry about, same story with the DB9!), TVR T350 (if you want a lifestyle change but something unreal!), and maaaybe a more recent Granturismo S (maybe not as safe from depreciation but I feel like it’s mostly bottomed out at this point and what a stunning car) More reliable, safer from crazy depreciation, fun to drive, good looking: one of the 981 Caymans might be a good bet, but again I would ignore all of those suggestions personally if you already know what you look for in a car, that should be the starting point!

That would at least make them a potentially profitable deal on the right finance!

@@ApothecaryTerry Indeed!

Had 2 lotus in the past a elan s2 in 95, swapped that for a 111s Elise in 99, got a Alfa Romeo guilia qv now but I do fancy one of these in that spec, need too wait a year and see what price they are then

Haha 100% you’ll enjoy it, during the drive I thought of you and the 981, it’s like a more ‘involved’ version of the 981 to drive, not just handling but even if you look behind my head you can literally see the throttle open and shut! Definitely give one a go and let me know what you think of it

@@CarsWithJB That definitely sounds like something I need to get my hands on!

Absolutely, wet roads change everything. In some ways, they can be safer- losing the rear in the wet tends to be much more progressive and controllable than in the dry, snap oversteer is much rarer (which is, of course, the "I'm on the roof and have redecorated my outsides with my insides" one...), but the wet makes risky things happen at lower speeds. I'm a huge proponent of people learning to handle this stuff. If you've never slid a car, you've got very little chance of getting it right if it happens. People also really need to stop buying bad tyres, it's like people don't realise those are the only things that touch the road (except the roof if it goes wrong), or how much difference they really make. One huge problem in the wet - you can't see stuff like oil on the road. My last car was a Cayman and a couple of times I hit oil patches in the wet and it just went, 45 degrees with the rear heading towards a barrier before anyone could react (as a gamer and driving nerd, my reactions are also pretty reasonable). Both times under 30mph, once getting undertaken by a lorry so it's not always about what speed you're doing either. In a mid-engined car, that was electronics to the rescue, even a proper pro driver isn't saving that, I'd have had no chance 😄

Never brake around a turn hard because the weight tranfers forward and the rear come out on you

Touring!

You’ve not driven an emira then. Enjoy your car, but I can’t imagine anyone preferring a boxster if they’ve driven both

@@AJ-hv6cdthey’re not that different, an H6 Boxster with a manual box and sports exhaust will probably be even more exciting to drive with the roof down

but yours is NOT a 23 year!!

@@richardbailey754 lol, my 2013 boxster is better built than a 2023 emira

@@bwdrives exactly, roof down adds so much more.

In answer to your questions. No. I was a parts planner for this era of cars.

Yea and Mercedes unreliability

And it still handles better than amything you have driven hater

@@agooberss well , I've had many many high end cars and I agree , my Lotus Elan turbo handled very well indeed , but this car is such a failure . All that R and D money and this is the best they could come up with . You take this heap of junk or a second hand Maclaren MP4-12c . There's no comparison . Nah, no excuses in this league . This is a transgender target market car . It's not for toxic males at all . We'll pass .