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This year in partnership with the Cadena racing team, Lotus entered eighteen rounds of the British GT3 Championship with the stunning new Lotus Sport Exige GT3 racecar. The season finished with the Lotus Sport Cadena Race Team being crowned British GT3 Team Champions, with one race still remaining from their inaugural season of competition.
To celebrate this outstanding success, Lotus has launched the Lotus Exige S British GT Special Edition. Based on the phenomenally quick standard-production Lotus Exige S, the Lotus Exige S British GT...
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Committed to the environmental benefits of ethanol? Determined to drive really, really fast? Lotus is about to help you out. They have just unveiled the Lotus Exige 265E, the fastest ethanol vehicle on the planet.
It’s also the most powerful Exige that has yet seen the road. The vehicle weighs a trim 2,050 pounds. The E85 engine, which is a modified version of the same Toyota powerplant that has shown up in other Exiges, kicks out 265 horsepower at 8,000 rpm. It can hit 60 mph from a standstill in just 3.88 seconds, and 100 mph in 9.2...
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The essence of the new Lotus Exige is that of a racing car. Even compared with the Elise, this bewinged coupe is a hard-core driving experience-and we mean that in a good way. What's curious is that from the same set of basic components-190-hp, 1.8-liter, four-cylinder Toyota engine; click-clack-shifting six-speed manual gearbox; extruded aluminum chassis; plastic body-Lotus has created a pair of cars sufficiently different in character that the coupe version can be regarded as a genuinely separate model. A quicker, more extreme, yet separate...
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