Lotus Exige Sport 380
£67,900
Another harder, better, faster Lotus?
Based on last year’s revised Exige Sport 350, the Exige 380 has another 30bhp, race-spec aero and, somehow, a weight saving. That’s like making a superleggera F1 car. Or diet celery.
What’s actually new?
Perversely, it’s not just stripped: Lotus has added bargeboards, a bigger carbon wing, an Evora’s diffuser, twin canard ‘flicks’ and wider tyres.
There are lighter two-piece brakes, a lithium-ion battery, a polycarbonate engine bay partition where there was once glass, carbon seats, plus an optional titanium exhaust.
There’s lightness everywhere, but the extra aero bits add back 15kg when the car’s sat still. At vmax they add 140kg.
This is very much a track car then?
It’s actually freakishly comfortable. Sure, you feel a bump or…