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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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 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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What happens when you take one Lotus Exige S, bolt in the most powerful four-cylinder engine ever fitted to a Lotus production car and then wrap the whole thing in a carbon-fibre body? You get the Lotus Exige Cup 260, that’s what.

The Exige 260 Cup is a fully-fledged race car for the road and weighs [...]

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Lotus has unveiled the hottest looking Exige from the factory yet. The specialised sports-car maker has taken the already savage racetrack-ready 2008 Exige CUP, removed weight without compromising its legendary handling and ‘driveability’, whilst leaving the potent 260 HP Toyota supercharged engine well-enough alone for this release. This track-biased but road-registrable (in the EU) featherweight [...]

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