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The Evora S would turn out to be the most pleasurable car I’d ever driven. Plenty would happen in the 48 hours the car was in my possession to create that close bond that I crave, a gamut of emotions and conditions that are things that a love of cars is made of. It would also prove just what a sublime car the Evora S is to drive, and how often preconceptions should be left behind. By the end, even though I knew I had to hand the keys back it felt like ‘my’ car, not someone else’s…

In the world of high- but not highest-end sports cars, the competition is all good. There are cars that do many things better, but there’s nothing that tops the Evora S for steering feel, which is extra-sensory, and heroic handling. The new S denotes supercharging and, it's worth mentioning, that makes the Evora incredibly fast in the bargain. A slender dealer network and a woeful lack of marketing funds has rendered it a footnote of a car from a footnote of a company, but cognoscenti will know that Lotus has been for over sixty years one of the…