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Written by Ollie Kew
Lotus goes to many pernickety lengths to make its cars as lightweight as possible. Wafer-thin seats. Specially formed glassfibre bodywork. Even making bespoke pipes for its heater systems. Fantastically nerdy stuff. But the latest Exige to grace the Geneva motor show has taken a rather more simple, route-one approach. Can you guess? Yup, it"s the Exige Sport 350 Roadster, and it"s got no roof.Throwing away the composite hard-top cuts a handy 10kg from the Exige 350"s kerbweight, making this supercharged, 345bhp V6 roadster an 1115kg car. And keen students of the laws of physics will already be nodding sagely at where that weight has been cut right at the top of the car. Lower centre of gravity ahoy.However, that"s not the end of the diet programme, because Lotus is offering the same weightwatchers menu of options for the Roadster as the coupe. Spec the lithium-ion battery, forged alloy wheels, two-piece brakes and carbon trim and you"ll shed another 30kg that"s 1085kg, maths fans. Not too shabby at all for a car cradling a 3.5-litre V6 behind its cockpit.
Date written: 3 Mar 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2409
Lotus goes to many pernickety lengths to make its cars as lightweight as possible. Wafer-thin seats. Specially formed glassfibre bodywork. Even making bespoke pipes for its heater systems. Fantastically nerdy stuff. But the latest Exige to grace the Geneva motor show has taken a rather more simple, route-one approach. Can you guess? Yup, it"s the Exige Sport 350 Roadster, and it"s got no roof.Throwing away the composite hard-top cuts a handy 10kg from the Exige 350"s kerbweight, making this supercharged, 345bhp V6 roadster an 1115kg car. And keen students of the laws of physics will already be nodding sagely at where that weight has been cut right at the top of the car. Lower centre of gravity ahoy.However, that"s not the end of the diet programme, because Lotus is offering the same weightwatchers menu of options for the Roadster as the coupe. Spec the lithium-ion battery, forged alloy wheels, two-piece brakes and carbon trim and you"ll shed another 30kg that"s 1085kg, maths fans. Not too shabby at all for a car cradling a 3.5-litre V6 behind its cockpit.
Date written: 3 Mar 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2409
