BY JAKE HOLMES, PHOTOGRAPHY BY CARPIX AND THE MANUFACTURER
The everyday sports car from Lotus.
Lotus has released full information and photos of its latest sports car, the Evora. Previously known only by its “Eagle” code name, the car was revealed at the British auto show. (more…)
BY ERIK JOHNSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JORDAN BROWN AND THE MANUFACTURER
The difference between paper and pavement is staggering.
Sixty mph in 4.8 seconds. A quarter-mile time of 13.6 seconds at 102 mph. Braking from 70 mph to a stop in 162 feet. On paper, it looks like this test subject is a mildly interesting performance car with an above-average ability to go and a somewhat ordinary ability to stop.
On pavement? Oh, on pavement the whole script flips. It isn’t until you whirl the wheel of the car to which those numbers are attached that you realize what an incredible machine you’re piloting. It amazes like a Dwyane Wade drive to the hole; nothing should be able to move the way it does. It is, in short, breathtaking. (more…)
A race car for the street, now even racier.
If you get out of your 2060-pound, 220-hp Lotus Exige S after a day at the track and yearn for more, the Exige GT3 is right up your alley. Based on the race-ready, track-only Exige Cup and Exige Cup 255, the GT3 concept shown at the Geneva auto show is a tribute to the cars that race in the British GT3 Championship. (more…)
BY DAVE VANDERWERP
Lotus addresses the Exige’s biggest flaw by adding a supercharger. Its organic responses were already among the best, so how sweet is it now?
The Exige is a very strange car. Almost no other four-wheeled anything produces such polar-opposite responses from our staff as does the Exige, which is essentially a more-track-ready version of the already extreme Elise that Lotus brought to market last year. An announcement of an Exige purchase could be met with anything from a jealous congratulation to a sour, scrunched-up face that could be confused with the reaction given a Buick Lucerne. (more…)
