{"id":1048508,"date":"2022-05-25T06:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T05:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/?post_type=issue_content&#038;p=1048508"},"modified":"2022-05-25T06:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T05:51:57","slug":"race-version-of-emira-shows-lotuss-fresh-focus-on-the-track","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/july-2022\/20\/race-version-of-emira-shows-lotuss-fresh-focus-on-the-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Race version of Emira shows Lotus\u2019s fresh focus on the track"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"c-content-block content-block content-section\">\n    <div class=\"container user-content\">\n        <p>Lotus has unveiled a new race version of its new Emira two-seater \u2013 the GT4. The move is seen as crucial to the company\u2019s planned transformation from a small-scale UK sports car company to a global car business.<\/p>\n<p>The GT4 uses the same Toyota-sourced 3.5-litre 400bhp V6 as the road car, and is the first product of the Norfolk firm\u2019s newly created Lotus Advanced Performance team. It was launched at the Hethel test track last month by Gavan Kershaw, director of vehicle attributes at Lotus and a former British GT Championship winner, at the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus paid tribute to its racing heritage and pointed towards a renewed focus on motor sport in the future saying the car is \u201cthe culmination of more than 70 years of innovation on the road and track\u201d and that it marks \u201cthe start of an exciting new era in performance GT racing for Lotus.\u201d Orders are being taken, with a price from \u00a3165,000.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":1023218,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[118722],"tags":[129515,129815],"issue_decade":[122153],"issue_year":[129434],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/1048508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/1048508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048514,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/1048508\/revisions\/1048514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048508"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=1048508"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=1048508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}