At the height of the 2020 COVID shutdown, my attention turned to the online auction sites. Datsun Zs had become a staple on Bring a Trailer, often nut-and-bolt rebuilds or low-mileage time capsules.
Not so today. The Jensen, by reputation, is louche and ephemeral; a raffish dinosaur of the pre-fuel crisis hedonism era powered by a massive American V8 that will take it past everything but a petrol ...
Apologies to snapper John, but I’ve yet to see a photo of the Emira that captures how dramatic it looks in the metal (sorry, thermoplastic). Russell Carr’s final combustion-engined Lotus design has ...