This is kind of exciting. This is very exciting. When's the last time that Lotus released a new car? 2008. Long time. 2009 model Lotus Evora. Long time. This is a new car from Lotus. Builds on the Evora chassis, but this is the long awaited Amira and we are in it together and that is pretty cool.

I've really been thinking about this for you.

So am I. That's good. We're both thinking that. I really have. Because I've thought the Amira, we've got to drive it and I feel like I want you to get one. I really do.

They are really cool. I want you to have one. Yeah, we haven't done much with it and I've already pretty much in love. It's pretty great. I feel, yeah, this cabin is pretty tight.

I mean, we're pretty close together, but it actually kind of has the feel of the Evora, but it also is kind of close like your Elise.

It has a lot of these times. I'm really surprised at how much it actually has kind of a Elise feel to it in spite of the fact that it was built on the Evora chassis and it's supposed to be replacing both cars, which I thought was not really possible.

But there is a bit of an Elise feel to this. I agree. I want to clarify the difference though. This isn't a cramped cabin. No, the pedals are close together. They actually remind me of Elise. The pedals are very close together. There are some narrow shoes.

But in spite of being a small cabin, I don't feel like we're cramped in here. I've got headroom, I've got legroom, and I also think that the seating position is like your view of the road, it feels higher than I expected.

Like all of the belt lines, everything is really low and you feel like you're up in this bubble and you're really looking down on stuff in a small car.

Now this is hydraulic steering. The Evora had hydraulics unheard of. The new car. Impossible because everybody is going to electric power steering because the thing about electric power steering is you can make a variable ratio, but more importantly you can do lane keep assist.

That's why you do that. With hydraulic you can't do lane keep assist. I don't want it. You don't want it. This car doesn't need it. No lane keep assist. By the way, listen.

Camry V6 like that. That was only second. Now it's third.

400 horsepower, 310 pound feet of torque in a 3200 pound car. Now we're in a world where everybody's supposed to have 700 to 1000 horsepower.

We're down on power here, but zero to 60, about four seconds. When you drive it because it feels lightweight, it doesn't feel the least bit under power.

You sit here and go, that's a lot of power. And Camry V6 supercharged with that noise. Camry V6. Seriously. Camry, it's what I'm talking about.

Yes. This is pretty special. It feels special sitting here. This is old school, old technology refined and put out as a new car. That is rare. Nobody does that anymore.

It's all the stuff that people know worked on great performance cars. Hydraulic steering, actual mechanical limits, lift differential, manual gearbox. Supercharger, listen to that.

That sounds so good. That's nuts. It sounds very motor sports. I've been thinking about the power in this. And we have a GT that we love as 416 horsepower in North America.

The final generation. The last one. So a touch more, more power. But this only has 400 only. Should have the next generation of the next car have incrementally more.

Well, that's also old school thinking because that's why most car manufacturers just back it up. They could do all the power. But they have more generations in the future.

We got ease into things. We've gotten more years to sell this car. Lotus backed off. Lotus went less.

Well, also think about this. This is Emira B1. The thing about the, if you're yelling above the, we are the supercharger.

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