The 176mph Lotus Carlton was a legend in its own lifetime, but how does it stack up 30 years later?
had all offered examples of fairly ordinary-looking executive saloons with larger-than-life motors installed behind their corporate faces. But generally speaking they didn’t shout about their credentials, which was just the way most customers liked them. The Lotus Carlton was different.
I pause before turning the key in the ignition barrel. This is a defining moment for someone who grew up idolising a four-door saloon car that, on paper, made supercars look lethargic.
Experience this hit just once and you’re hooked. The LC’s performance is monumental, your self control sorely tested. What’s more, despite the weight to the controls, you can be remarkably delicate with it, building a real flow and a rhythm, leaning on the AP brakes deep into a corner before setting a balance across the Carlton’s Lotus-developed multi-link suspension.
This is where the illusion could go so horribly wrong. A 30-year-old car floundering around a track as an Octavia vRS looks for a way past. But it doesn’t. Out of the hairpins the LC gallops to the next braking point as if someone has wound the clock back to 1991; second, third, and fourth pass in a blink, and speeds are reached that would put some very modern machinery in some very dark shade. Every time I look down it’s doing 130mph. It’s what I expected. No, it was what I wanted it to be.
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