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This week"s fastest ever" Lotus story comes courtesy of this, the new Evora GT430 Sport. Yep, the already quite extreme Evora GT430 - revealed a couple of months back - wasn"t exactly slow, but Lotus decided to make it even faster. So much so, it"s now the fastest ever road-going Lotus with a 196mph top speed. That"s a whopping 4mph more than the Evora GT430. Eat that.The GT430 Sport removes much of the aero elements present on its sibling. So no mad wing, no carbon fibre front splitter, no louvres to reduce wheel arch pressure and so forth. Shorn of these elements, the Sport weighs in 10kg lighter than the GT430, at 1,248kg.Lotus has deployed full carbon fibre mode too: carbon front and rear bumpers, front access panel, roof panel and rear quarters are present, along with a one-piece louvred tailgate with an integrated spoiler. It all adds up to a slightly better better power-to-weight ratio, at 345bhp per tonne.
Date written: 6 Sep 2017
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ID: 9083
This week"s fastest ever" Lotus story comes courtesy of this, the new Evora GT430 Sport. Yep, the already quite extreme Evora GT430 - revealed a couple of months back - wasn"t exactly slow, but Lotus decided to make it even faster. So much so, it"s now the fastest ever road-going Lotus with a 196mph top speed. That"s a whopping 4mph more than the Evora GT430. Eat that.The GT430 Sport removes much of the aero elements present on its sibling. So no mad wing, no carbon fibre front splitter, no louvres to reduce wheel arch pressure and so forth. Shorn of these elements, the Sport weighs in 10kg lighter than the GT430, at 1,248kg.Lotus has deployed full carbon fibre mode too: carbon front and rear bumpers, front access panel, roof panel and rear quarters are present, along with a one-piece louvred tailgate with an integrated spoiler. It all adds up to a slightly better better power-to-weight ratio, at 345bhp per tonne.
Date written: 6 Sep 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9083
