Lotus Exige Sport 380

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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by campbell » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:19 pm

Lol. You need therapy.
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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by Stu160 » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:04 pm

campbell wrote:Lol. You need therapy.
I attend therapy sessions regulary, I have a day of therapy at Crail this weekend, and have 2 full days of therapy at Oulton Park in December :D

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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by SAJ » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:09 pm

GraemeLotus wrote:
ryallm wrote:
GraemeLotus wrote: no room in the nose..
Yeah, right, nothing to do with keeping a marketing distance from the more expensive Evora 400.... :) Komotec can squeeze a charge cooler in there so surely can't be beyond Lotus.

The Sport 380 does look fantastic though 8)
Komotec don't have to homologate a new car, nor pass crash testing for post-registration mods, nor provide a 3 year pan-Euro warranty.....believe me, it's not quite as easy as it looks...!

The new car is a lovely, lovely thing.....the true performance gap vs 350 is (I'm told) large, and personally I love the new back end.
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Any Hethel lap times for it to confirm how big a gap?
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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by neil » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:14 pm

My moneys on Stu buying a 380
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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by tut » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:38 pm

1066kg is good going.

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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by Andy G » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:50 pm

from reading the article its £11k more than the 350 Sport, but thats un-optioned??

Whats the tab if you tick all the boxes (exhaust etc)?

1066KG is an epic effort though - pace vs the Exige Cup?
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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by neil » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:56 pm

Has to be £80k+ given the number of things that are no longer standard. Maybe 85k with all the carbon tat
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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by ScottJ-PS » Thu Nov 24, 2016 12:30 am

campbell wrote:Nice.

More interested in the 2020 Elise S4 :-)
me too. Getting bored with the lets count to 400 then 450 then 500 upgrades ..

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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by scott_e » Thu Nov 24, 2016 8:29 am

ScottJ-PS wrote:
campbell wrote:Nice.

More interested in the 2020 Elise S4 :-)
me too. Getting bored with the lets count to 400 then 450 then 500 upgrades ..
I love the idea of an Exige 380 and the performance stats are what I have always wanted from an Exige ... its just the price is out of my league unfortunately :cry: . Elise 2020 looks beautiful, should have the mortgage out of the way by then at least (finger crossed) and a guilt free spending spree is well overdue !

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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by greyrigg » Thu Nov 24, 2016 9:03 am

The 380 looks fantastic. I have to say I have never thought the V6 lacked power but I am sure I would after I drove a 380 :-)
Fire up the man maths calculator...........
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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by Stu160 » Thu Nov 24, 2016 9:34 am

greyrigg wrote:The 380 looks fantastic. I have to say I have never thought the V6 lacked power but I am sure I would after I drove a 380 :-)
Fire up the man maths calculator...........
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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by tut » Thu Nov 24, 2016 10:06 am

Still dick it.

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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by rawsco » Thu Nov 24, 2016 10:27 am

I like the new spoiler, I was never 100% convinced of the old one. But an Exige with a hard top as an option (implied by the text)???. Wider front wheels seems like a good move, big long thread on seloc about why Exige she are slower than they should be suggesting that it overheats its front tyres and understeers badly and that wider front tyres would help. Would I drop 68k plus all the options to get it right? Nope. 20+ year old chassis design. It'll be a great car no doubt but I doubt residuals will be strong and there are so many other amazing cars for that kind of coin!
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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by Dominic » Thu Nov 24, 2016 11:17 am

Stu160 wrote:
campbell wrote:Lol. You need therapy.
I attend therapy sessions regulary, I have a day of therapy at Crail this weekend, and have 2 full days of therapy at Oulton Park in December :D

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Re: Lotus Exige Sport 380

Post by graeme » Thu Nov 24, 2016 12:54 pm

SAJ wrote:
Any Hethel lap times for it to confirm how big a gap?
If you add up all the "x seconds quicker" press releases, I think we're into negative laptimes now. :D
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