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For the people who read the spec sheet before the review — and argue with it afterwards. Cars & Code’s Enthusiast section covers the vehicles and stories that matter to drivers who actually care: American muscle, European classics, Japanese icons, British oddities, and everything in between. No filler. Just cars worth talking about.

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A Lotus Emira sports car parked at the Lotus factory in Hethel, Norfolk, representing the model that will switch to a new hybrid V6 powertrain alongside a revived Esprit V8 supercar.
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Euro May 29, 2026

Lotus Promised an Electric Future in 2022. Today, Its CEO Admitted He Was Wrong and Ordered Some New V8s.

Four years ago, Lotus stood up at the launch of the Emira and told the assembled press, with the slightly forced gravitas of a man at a wedding speech, that this would be its last combustion car. Ever. From here…

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A white third-generation Mazda RX-7 FD with factory body kit and dark alloy wheels, parked in Japan, representing one of the final examples of the rotary-engined sports car that ended production in 2002
JDM May 29, 2026

The Day Mazda Accepted the Rotary Was Over

The rotary engine drinks too much fuel? We will engineer a thermal reactor and make it more efficient.…

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bmw m3 e92 s65 v8 engine bay
Euro May 20, 2026

Why the BMW M3’s V8 Was Nobody’s First Choice

The E92 BMW M3, produced from 2007 to 2013, is widely considered one of the finest performance cars…

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Suki's pink VeilSide-bodied 2001 Honda S2000 from 2 Fast 2 Furious, featuring custom anime-style artwork and a rear wing, on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum's Fast and Furious 25th anniversary exhibition, with a green sports car visible in the background.
JDM May 20, 2026

The Petersen Put Fast and Furious in a Museum. That’s Not a Joke. That’s History.

The first Japanese car officially imported and sold in the United States was a 1967 Honda N600, serial…

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The original 1992 Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster, launched without airbags, ABS, or traction control as a deliberate engineering and marketing decision
Dodge May 15, 2026

The Dodge Viper Had No Airbags for a Decade — And That Was the Point

The 1992 Dodge Viper RT/10 was one of the most deliberately dangerous cars ever approved for road use…

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An AMG engine builder's signature plaque mounted on a hand-assembled AMG V8 engine at the Affalterbach facility in Germany
Euro May 14, 2026

One Man. One Engine. The AMG Philosophy That Fans Write Letters About.

Affalterbach is a small town northeast of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg. Around 10,000 people live there. It has a…

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The white Lotus Esprit Series 1 used in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, later purchased by Elon Musk at auction
British May 11, 2026

The Lotus Esprit Elon Musk Bought

In 1977, a white Lotus Esprit drove off a pier in Sardinia and became a submarine. The sequence…

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