Lotus Exige Cup 260 Gets Lighter for 2009

Its stupid to take mudflaps off. It wont make a difference and they save the paint on the doors from getting all chiped up. It also prevents the dirty road from getting on your car. I can just imagine a girl getting all pissed because she accidently leaned on the car with her dress, or got her hands or gloves dirty from the door handle. Even if you just washed the car, one drive will do it.

And if u look closely at the title u can see its a Exige Cup wich is mainly made for racing so it aint exactly a car for anything your suggesting "pigly"

love it!

Why would you want to buy a car that, despite the loss of weight, doesn't even post good lap times? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordschleife_fastest_lap_times) Sure that's not the Exige Cup 260 but the Cayman S costs $10k less than the Exige S, is about 1.1s slower to 60mph but is only 1s slower on a track as long as the Nurburgring Nordschleife and then reaches a higher top end speed AND does all of this with "amenities" such as aircon and stuff.

Okay, I would like you to tell me what about this car does it for you.

Man, this is one expensive Go-Kart. I'm rather disappointed with the Torque figure. Surely that could get more out of a Supercharged 1.8L Engine. What else are they gonna throw out to save weight? Maybe the seats, the steering wheel, gear lever, windows???? Ridiculous if you ask me.

a lot of companies who produce bloated overweight sports cars and then have to stick a massive engine in it to get the performance would do well to follow Lotus' example.

yea look what Nissan did to the GT-R...HUGE CAR HUGE WEIGHT...any one can make a car heavy.

small V8 in it or the evora's v6

Nice. Good thing about Lotuses are they never get dated. Just look at the Lotus Seven, being sold as Caterhams or Westfields.

The argument about engine size would hold weight if Lotus didn't price itself similarly to those cars with the bigger engines. It's like saying the C63 is "unfairly" pitted against the 4.0 M3 or the 4.2 RS4; their priced similarly so that warrants reason for comparison. I mean anyone can make an incomplete car; just take stuff out. IMO handling is an opinion; I think the DB9 handles very well but many of you would probably say otherwise; prima facie the Lotus seemed like a sure deal on track to me but the Nurburgring track time the Lotus pulled, although not a dealmaker sure (Nurburgring argument is a fair one), kinda got me questioning why it is they try... By the way Nissan pulled off quite a feat because, despite all that weight, it got a good 50s or so over the Exige S, at a premium of about $10k over the Exige S haha and then you can drive home in relative comfort; the aircon keeps the temperature ambient without messing up your track time. The Lotus has many intentions; it doesn't fulfill any of them. Since it obviously doesn't do well as a car, doesn't do anything amazing on track, doesn't look good either then the thinking man would do better to just get himself an Ariel Atom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_Test_Track (that's all I have to say)

THAT LOTUS IS JUST 4 RACING

CZNT THEY ADD ANY GOOD STUFF.

IT ONLY LOOKS GOOD