THE LOTUS EVORA, revealed at this year’s Melbourne Motor Show has given us a glimpse of the future for the Lotus brand, and now the updated 2010 Exige S is available locally through Lotus Cars Australia.

On the functional styling front, Lotus’ supercharged giant-killer features an updated front bumper, as well as a larger, carbon-fibre wing.

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LOTUS HAS ANNOUNCED its updated-for-2010 Exige Cup 260, and although it’s outwardly similar to the current model, the British manufacturer has managed to screw more efficiency and improved handling out of its race-ready road car.

Power from the Toyota-sourced supercharged 1.8 litre inline-four is still a respectable 191kW and the 0-100km/h sprint is still dispatched in [...]

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Dual fuel is so old hat, but Tri-Fuel? Now that’s something to get excited about. Apparently we weren’t the only ones who took great interest in the Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel when it was first unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show last year.

Lotus Enthusiast is reporting that strong interest from Youngman Auto (Lotus’ Chinese partner) [...]

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Lighter, meaner, rawer. This really is a pocket-rocket ‘ready to race’ straight from the Lotus production line.

Lotus has brought into Australia just three 2009 Exige Cup 260 event-ready cars for a lucky trio of track day enthusiasts ready to go to the next level of competition.

Today, Targa Tasmania, one of Australia’s most famous tarmac events, [...]

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The terms ‘environmentally friendly’ and ‘supercars’ aren’t ones that show up often in the same sentence, but cleanliness is next to godliness (so they say) and supercars are about as close to godhood as cars get.

It seems that environmentally-conscious supercars are becoming more of a reality. Take Lotus, for instance, with the 2010 Lotus Elise and [...]

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The 2009 Targa Tasmania will mark the worldwide tarmac rally debut of Lotus’ performance orientated Exige Cup 260.

Piloted by motoring scribe Dean Evans, the car will race largely in showroom trim, with the only addition being a roll cage.

Other factory installed features include fully adjustable suspension and AP Racing brakes.

Weighing a total of 890kg - [...]

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Buying that ‘Plucky Brit’ go-cart isn’t going to cost you any more than it did back in the good ol’ pre-meltdown days of 2008.

Lotus Cars Australia, commendably made the decision to absorb the Luxury Car Tax increase, introduced in 2008, rather than pass it onto their customers (a saving of up to $3,000 on some [...]

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The Exige Strikes Back.

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Following the unveiling of what we now know as the Evora (previously Project Eagle), Lotus has released some addition information and images. The Evora is the first all-new Lotus since the iconic Elise made its debut in 1995, and according to Lotus it is also currently the world’s only mid-engined 2+2.

You can read all about [...]

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Due to make its official debut at the British Motor Show on July 22, Project Eagle is, according to Lotus, “a more holistic offering than the Elise and Exige models”.

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If Colin Chapman were still with us he might be having a quiet chuckle to himself about the current state of affairs in the car world. As the cost of fuel rises with unbounded enthusiasm on an almost daily basis, manufacturers are tossing overweight large car platforms in the dustbin and turning to smaller lighter [...]

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This years Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix will see the return of Angelo Lazaris and his Lotus Exige GT3, ready to begin their assault on the 2008 GT Championship. The Lotus Exige GT3 will be sharing the grid with the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini and will no-doubt feel right at home amongst its [...]

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