Yesterday Shaun and I were bs’ing online, as we usually do on Saturday afternoons, and the talk turns to Lotus. Admittedly, I don’t know much about them, except that they have always captured my imagination by being a performance oriented car, that is both attainable, and rare – two things I can always appreciate in a performance platform. One car in particular caught my eye on ebay – the color scheme just spoke to me!
So, I had the Exige bug going, and last night before eating some mediocre sushi with Jonathan, he built an badass version on Forza – down to the stripes. I’m not a huge video game person, but this thing was a blast….570 hp, around 2000 lbs. I might be east coast, but I know how to say yee-haw!
After watching Vettel win at Monza today (amazing BTW!) I started googling all things Exige, and found some cool stuff I figured I’d share.
Lotus has done a ton of development work on the car since it’s introduction. One neat version was the 270E was shown at Geneva this year and runs on your choice of three fuels – gasoline, alcohol, or methanol! (white car with green stripes in the gallery below)
And of course the grand daddy of ’em all – the car every Exige wants to grow up to be: Lotus’s own Sport Exige 05. This was developed in conjunction with RTN (of Bentley LeMans winning fame), and is a V6 NA monster – 400 hp + 1974 lbs = hold the hell on.
Kwame
Z1 Performance
Jonathan
Corner Balance 
Do it, Do it …
Forza pics up – Adam wants a real one now hehe
$62K for the 240hp SC’d model.