Lotus Exige

Yes.

That is the, uh, if a Lotus Exige had a lease, uh, the agreement was, uh, their basement was always, like those were 30 grand cars.

Like you were going to spend 30 grand-

Yeah

Track car is easy one for me.

Lotus Exige.

Lotus Exige.

Supercharged 350 or something like that there.

It tends to be boring, yeah.

Think of like a noble

M400 mixed with a Lotus Exige and you'll get something like a Darion.

But they're quite old as well.

On a rally stage.

What's next? How can we go faster? So can we make something that's more powerful, that's lighter weight? And I just kept thinking like, you know, yeah, we could keep adding horsepower, but is there a way we can go lighter weight? And I'm like, okay, what about a Ford GT? What about a this or that? And then I just had a guy that was doing some design work, a guy who was based out of the UK.

I said, what if we took a Lotus Elise or an Exige and we yanked the little four banger out of the back of that thing and we put our twin turbo Viper engine in it? Such a

contrast.

I think different countries, we all look at each other with our stereotypes of each other.

Yep.

Now, that car is going to be a monster because it only weighs as much as a freaking Lotus Exige.

Yeah, I know.

That's going to be insane.

I don't get it.

If you look at where Lotus is now currently, so if we, actually if we rewind to 2021, '22, when the Emira came out, Exige, Evora, and Elise production was coming to an end, and the whole idea was that they were going to reinvigorate the factory with this global car, the Emira.

That was going to be the sports car that was the heart of Lotus.

That was what Lotus was good at, and then it was going to build EVs.

Um, so I'm putting forward...

I'm go- why go for a 4C when you could have this Lotus Exige V6 Roadster that is currently up for auction on Pistonheads Auctions.

Uh, so I don't know how much it's going to go for, uh, but it's just so lovely.

It's in a dark metallic blue-

Yeah

... or an Exige, or maybe even a-

That's up here

... higher mile Evora.