The Dallara Stradale Is The Pricey, Limited-Production Track Day Nemesis Of The Lotus 3-Eleven
Chassis maker Dallara has released its first road car, and this is it. Well done if you’ve already guessed that the Stradale is no everyday shopping car. It’s road-legal, but not exactly what you’d call practical. Or cheap: it’s about £140,000 plus VAT, registration and extra taxes.
At present it’s left-hand drive only. There are no doors. Don’t be silly; that would ruin the cooling system design, which sees enclosed channels running within the bodywork from the nose to the mid-mounted 2.3-litre turbocharged Ford EcoBoost engine.
There’s no power steering ‘in the interests of purity.’ There’s no windscreen. As standard you get a minimal and fairly useless wind deflector ahead of each occupant, sort of like screens on motorbike fairings. If you want a more traditional bug barrier then you’ll be relieved of £14,500 or so. We’re not kidding.
You can also have a roof for just under £7000 and two top-hinged sort-of-but-not-really doors for almost the same price. All plus VAT.
You don’t get air-con, heated seats, a stereo, sat-nav or even Bluetooth. Because you need none of those things. What you do get is a 400bhp, 855kg track-focused monster with Dallara pedigree and as much as 820kg of aero downforce. Fast? You bet your life it is.
Those without a wish to be killed will welcome the standard traction control, but you don’t get track-spec tyres or adjustable dampers for your money. They’re optional. There is, however, a six-speed manual gearbox (huzzah!) with plans in the pipeline for a single-clutch automated manual option.
With the Lotus 3-Eleven priced at less than half of what a mildly-optioned Dallara Stradale will cost, this is a track attacker aimed squarely at people with plenty of money to burn. The first year’s production – about 120 cars – have already been sold, says Dallara.
How many of those are genuine buyers and how many are speculators trying to make a fast buck on an early production slot, we’ll have to wait and see.
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Track day bro
Where are are you going bro??
Track day bro
It looks as if a Aston Martin Vantage and a Lotus 3-Eleven had a love child. With a bit of Ferrari heritage thrown into the mix.
I agree. I think it is the front of a Ferrari 488, the body of a lotus 3-eleven, with the rear of a DB11 in my opinion
Front looks kinda like a Vette
For me that’s a great! :)
Wait, £14.5k for a windscreen? Does it have gold flake in it? Or a platinum frame?
That must be the most extreme EA-like attitude I’ve ever seen from a company
If EA made a car, you have to pay more for the bits you might actually want
The car will cost about $50,000. Plus some dlc, expansions packs, and extra contect it be cost $500,000. Total of $550,000. Now pay you broke noob
This is one of the cars that will hit history books, but, will be extremelly limited and impractical.
Like the Caterham R500 or KTM X-Bow..
I mean, the 2.3 ecoboost is great and all, but for £140k couldn’t they’ve gone with something a bit more… Exotic?
Can’t be the only one who sees it
What car is that ?
That looks very close to the 488 GTB
Looks really good doe
Henessey anyone?
honestly this is more impressive than henessey, this is an actual beast that’s being made by a much more trusted manufacturer that’s known for making chassis for open wheel cars.
It’s way cooler to be able to say “My car is made by the same people who make Indycar chassis” than “My car is made by some shady guy who doesn’t treat customer cars properly”