Lotus Sport Exige *UPDATE*

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The Toyota engine in the normal Elise is an inline 4, in this it's a V6.
 
eliseracer
Correct. Tuned by Yamaha, to 190hp. The ones found in Toyota cars (Corolla, Celica) are 170hp, I think.
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180hp for the Celica, 170hp for the Matrix, and 170hp for the Corolla. From what I remember reading, its mainly a more free flowing exhaust and a little ECU tweaking to give the Elise motor a bit more than the Celica's, which its based on. Basically the same though.

Hilg
 
Yes.

The supercharged VVTL-i that might be used is going to be sold as the Exige R. Expect to see it decimate anything under the Vauxhall badge (hahah I had to say that). 280hp and 0-60mph in 3,8 seconds.
How fast can the Ferrari 360 do it in?
 
It is "only" 400 hp, the 470 figure is 470 hp/metric ton.

As in 470 = 400 hp / 0.85 ton. 👍
 
eliseracer
Yes.

The supercharged VVTL-i that might be used is going to be sold as the Exige R. Expect to see it decimate anything under the Vauxhall badge (hahah I had to say that). 280hp and 0-60mph in 3,8 seconds.
How fast can the Ferrari 360 do it in?
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4.2 maybe. CS is ~4.0
 
I doubt it would never hapen. This was "apparently" a long faught, lawsuit-tainted progress to get one car out, so releasing the second or production car would be too huge am ordeal. I'm also doubting Hethel's capacity to run a production, even a small amount. Keep in mind there is only one existing road car of the Elise GT1.
 
Lotus has said it has no plans to put this car into production, however, a less aggressive, more user friendly V6 powered Exige may be in the works.
 
Ran this car through CarTest. The program estimated 0-100km/h in 2.8 seconds (5-100 in 4.9), 0-160km/h in 5.4 and a top speed of 291km/h. 290 is reached in 37.1 seconds! :scared:

If these numbers are true to life (highly unlikely, they just seem too be too good), then the Lotus Sport Exige is a very fast car indeed.
 
Freddie
Ran this car through CarTest. The program estimated 0-100km/h in 2.8 seconds (5-100 in 4.9), 0-160km/h in 5.4 and a top speed of 291km/h. 290 is reached in 37.1 seconds! :scared:

If these numbers are true to life (highly unlikely, they just seem too be too good), then the Lotus Sport Exige is a very fast car indeed.
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I have that program too. Did you adjust the "Car-Specific" parameters?
 
Yes, I did:

Shift time, Manual: 0.1sec
Engage time, Manual 0.01sec (with a seq, should this be higher?)
Engine Free Decel Rate: 20000rpm/sec
Engine Bog Down Rate: 25000rpm/sec

Defined Lat. Acceleration: 1.6g's

That's what I adjusted, in an attempt to simulate the sequential gearbox (and race car cornering, obviously)
 
Does that take into consideration gear ratio's and aerodynamics? Thoe two can have a profound effect on how a car performs.
Also does it take into account the weight of a driver?
 
Well, I put the drag value to a rather low 0.36. Gear ratios and wheel dimensions are set as mentioned in the press release. Weight distribution is 43% front, and test weight is set to 850kg. Maybe I should adjust it to 1000kg for both fuel and driver...

Drag adjusted to .38 and weight to 1000kg:
0-100km/h: 3.1 sec
5-100km/h: 5.3 sec
0-160km/h: 6.2 sec
0-280km/h: 31.5 sec

0-400m @ 210.1km/h in 10.8 seconds
0-1000m @ 258.9km/h in 19.9 seconds

Top Speed: 286km/h

Those numbers sound more realistic. Still very fast, but then again it's 400hp/t.
 
live4speed
Does that take into consideration gear ratio's and aerodynamics? Thoe two can have a profound effect on how a car performs.
Also does it take into account the weight of a driver?
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Yes, the program takes into effect all of these parameters and more. :)
 
This has to be my favourite car of all time now :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

It just proves the UK has the potential still to be the best automotive engineering country in the world :) Why aren't all cars this good :(
 
I'm very sad to see that this car won't be put into production. :(

I doubt it would never hapen. This was "apparently" a long faught, lawsuit-tainted progress to get one car out, so releasing the second or production car would be too huge am ordeal. I'm also doubting Hethel's capacity to run a production, even a small amount. Keep in mind there is only one existing road car of the Elise GT1.
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Can someone please explain to me why there was a lawsuit over the building of a car?
 
Who will build it, under what name, under what financing. Who will own it, under what name and for what purposes. Lotus did not build half of the car. They had their name on it, and I am suspecting they really didn't want to do it in the first place, because they have waaaaaaaaay more important things to make than one-offs. For that reason, the lack of development of a racecar probably make this an under-par Lotus.

Again, this is what someone told someone who told me. You get the picture, this car makes sense, but not from a financial or marketing point of view.
 
This car was seen out on the test track for the first time this weekend (I think?) in Malaysia. The car is owned by Proton for GT300 racing out there. The CEO of Proton's son was at the wheel (he's a moron, apparently, and isn't such a good driver). It was the first time out, and the times were very satisfying. Too slow to run GT300 so far, but some changes and a smoother track will show better results. On the track, it ran 25 seconds faster than a stock Exige.

Oh and on a subtly important note, Lotus will be making more of these. :)
 
pimp racer
http://science.howstuffworks.com/gear-ratio.htm
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That is funny they really don't go too in-depth of actually showing how they make their ratios. . .

I see someone here knows how to get the gear ratio through a Differential by multiplying the Differentail final Drive ration by the gear ration.


I remember reading about this car back in Jan. when this post first came out, all I must say is that after driving just the 1.8 liter elise, this car must have a monsterous power to weight ratio, and possibly a scary car to drive.
 

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