![Shifting in the Lotus Evora GT410 Classic & Sports Car – Future classic: Lotus Evora GT410](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/2020-10/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20Future%20classic%20%E2%80%93%20Lotus%20Evora%20%E2%80%93%2008.png?itok=cAbpvx54)
A very strong case could be made for the Lotus Evora being a classic already, rather than one for the future.
This is its 13th year, having been announced in 2008 as the first all-new Lotus in more than a decade and part of one of the company’s fairly frequent new-range announcements.
This model did actually get built, obviously, and much was made about it being the only four-seat mid-engined sports car on sale, and that it was a Lotus with a softer touch.
Not a lighter touch, of course, but it wasn’t exactly heavy at just shy of 1400kg.
![The Lotus Evora GT410 has a 174mph top speed Classic & Sports Car – Future classic: Lotus Evora GT410](/sites/default/files/2020-10/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20%E2%80%93%20Future%20classic%20%E2%80%93%20Lotus%20Evora%20%E2%80%93%2002.png)
Today its raison d’être remains the same, though like every recent Lotus it has spawned numerous variants since: some a little racier; some a lot racier; most with the same letters and numbers in a different order and the word ‘Sport’ in varying places.
This, the GT410, is instead the latest to try to break through and become a mainstream success.
The problem, which inversely aids its case to being a classic, is actually spotting one.