By Nick Aziz
Thursday, Jul 20th, 2006 @ 5:39 pm

The Lotus Circuit Car — which was unveiled last year in concept form — will see production in January, Lotus production boss Tony Shute told Autocar. Based on the same platform as the Elise, the car was temporarily put on hold while development of the new Europa S and Elise S was completed. Like the Exige S, the car will use a supercharged version of the Toyota engine found in the the Elise R and Exige. While the ultra-light Circuit Car is mostly intended for track use, it will also be street legal, says Shute. He said the car may even be exported to the United States. See a gallery of the Circuit Car concept after the jump…