The manual gearbox is well into its twilight years - here are the ones you should grab before it's too late...
Given its status as the final combustion-engined Lotus, the Emira must also be the last manual sports car to leave the gates of Hethel. A traditional self-shifter, at least - who knows if Lotus might embark on the bizarre EV ‘manual’ thing seen in prototype form from some other makers. For now, this is it, and it'll surely be black armbands on across Norfolk when time is called on the six-speed. And it won’t be very far from now.
The Morgan is here partly to represent all the lightweight British sports car makers like Caterham and Ariel that are still doing admirable work keeping manuals in flyweight funsters we all love so much. There might be an electric Caterham in the works, and Ariel is doing its awesome HiperCar thing, but for the moment the majority of Sevens, Atoms and Pluses of the world make do with manuals. And they’re all the better for it, demanding your best and rewarding in kind.
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