coming home from work and i have a lotus exige come up on me. i get over and he pulls maybe two car lengths ahead of me then starts pacing me. well we eventually go at it when he abruptly takes off and i follow suit.

he started off around 2 cars ahead and by the time we got to 110 or so and shut it down, i was about half a car behind. dont know if he was messing with me, a bad driver, or i overestimated his car.

when we got to the exit i had to take, exchanged smiles and thumbs up and went on our ways. pretty cool old guy and my first time playing with a semi exotic car.

me-2000 ss bolt on

him-lotus exige, year and mods unknown

 

I'm surprised you didn't beat him....... from what I know (i could be wrong) they aren't that fast in a straight line as they are around corners. I guess anything CAN happen on the street.

 

agreed. I don't think they're supposed to be that fast

 

They have a good 0-60 but tend to loose steam as the speeds increase.

 

Well there are two models of the Exige, and they're both supercharged... I wouldn't feel too bad. They weigh in at just over 2,000lbs.

 

there quick little cars. this guy in my town has one and its pretty quick

 

forgot to mention im also an auto

the 2000lb weight seems about right as the car looked like it would fit in the back of a mid size truck

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, aren't the older ones N/A?

 

the elise is n/a.

 

Yeah, AFAIK the Exige has always been blown.

 

Ya they are quick cars. I know the one that used to come by the shop had the 1.8L Toyota motor, same thing as Celica GT-S, just different ECM calibration and 2K LBS curb weight. I would think should be good for low to mid 13s.

 

There is also a S/C Elise now. Quick little ******.

 

I drove the NA Elise and its slow as ****. Deff should be ableto beat it. Even though its 1900lbs I would doubt that most could get it lower than 14s.


I raced my buddies automatic altima 3.5 with it from about a 50 punch and by 90 I had maybe 2 cars on him. I didnt find though that it dropped off in the top end. I brought it to about 130mph and it didnt fall flat on its face like I thought it would for a 4cyl covertible with bad aero.

 

Motor Trend had the Exige running I think 13.9, so take what a good driver could do with that then. I say good death. Wish I good run th one out here I see all th time

 

Well I say find him and run him again from a 45 roll and honk down to make it fair.

 

There is a blue elise that runs down here at firebird raceway.

Clocks off 13.5s and on good runs, 13.3s