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Car review: Lotus Emira is a daily sports car

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SINGAPORE – The Lotus Emira looks like a mini Lamborghini and, in its latest Turbo SE guise, is even faster than an Italian supercar.

Car enthusiasts of a certain age may find the “Turbo SE” name familiar, with its distinctly 1980s ring. Famously, American actor Richard Gere’s character in the 1990 movie Pretty Woman was terrible at driving the Esprit Turbo SE, clumsily crunching the manual gearbox.

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