Lotus Just Made Yet Another Exige And It's The Most Extreme Yet
If you’ve been following post-Bahar era Lotus for the last few years, you’ll know the score here. Yep, Hethel has tweaked another of its existing models to make a new-ish car.
It’s called the Lotus Exige Sport 380, and it’s the fastest version of Hethel’s extreme track car ever made. The mid-mounted V6 now puts out 375bhp (a 30bhp bump), getting it from 0-62mph in just 3.5 seconds, on to a top speed of 178mph.
To go with the newfound poke, Lotus has festooned the Exige in carbonfibre aero goodies, including a new front splitter, rear spoiler and rear diffuser. Other weight-saving options including forged wheels drop the Exige’s kerb weight to a pithy 1100kg. Downforce at the car’s top speed is 140kg, meanwhile.
Elsewhere, it’s still very much a hardcore slap in the face for today’s current tech-fest sports cars - it doesn’t even have power steering. There is an automatic gearbox option, but you’d be mad not to go for the six-speed manual - the exposed gear linkage is a thing of beauty.
Want one? You’re looking at £67,900.
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Want…
Lotus be like:
want… But 0 dollars in my pocket. I will work for Lotus and get a free one :D
Looks like someone took pages from Pagani’s book
Lotus Exige Sport 380 Special Edition
Lotus Exige Sport 380 British Racing Green Edition
Lotus Exige Sport 380 Silverstone Edition
Lotus Exige Sport 380 John Player Special
Don’t mind me, just my predictions
Lotus Exige Sport 380 Nurburgring Edition
Lotus Exige Sport 420
Lotus Exige Sport 420 Special Edition
Lotus Exige Sport 420 British Racing Green Edition
Lotus Exige Sport 420 Silverstone Edition
Lotus Exige Sport 420 Nurburgring Edition
Lotus Exige Super
Lotus Exige Super S
Lotus Exige Super Cup
Lotus Exige Super Cup S…
You get where we are going to…
What about Porsche’s 911991
911 Carrera
911 Carrera 4
911 Carrera 4s
911 GT3
911 Turbo
911 Turbo S
911 Targa
911 GTS
911 R
GeoBaz’s reaction:
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WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
Bring back the supercharged Toyota 1.8 VVTL-i 2ZZ engine! :(
hells ya
Isn’t that still in the Elise?
Yet another car for my friends to mistake for the Hennessy Venom
It looks mad and cute at the same time
I like it. Allmost McLaren HP to weight ratio with probably equal track quality. Its a budget Mclaren
Kerb weight to à pithy 1100kg ….
WHAAAT? Come on lotus, where the “light is right” goes???
First Élise where under 700kg