Comments on: Lotus unveils Exige Cup 260

By: leozug

leozug — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:48:19 +0000

i can always count on heading over to leftlanenews and reading some of the stupidest comments on the internet.

By: chj123

chj123 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:39:49 +0000

Response to need more oil for gm , firstly the engine in the exige is good enough , its powerful and etremely reliable when compared to most other engines and also lotus pretty much uses a gm engine in its europa , its the 2.0 turbo out of the vx220 turbo , good engine as well but cant quite live up to the toyota block

By: JohnnyBlazE

JohnnyBlazE — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:08:25 +0000

Hah, my mate has an Elise with a Supercharged Honda V-Tec (CTR sourced I think).
The noise, behind your head, is intense.

And with over 400 bhp/tonne, can’t complain – it’s already dangerous enough in the wet, Need4SSpeed, trust me – 400bhp on such a light RWD car is always reserved for dry days… In the UK, where his car is, where I am also, it rains too much for more bhp!

Even before it was supercharged it was an immense force.
Quick as hell, noisy, brutal, go kart handling… Sublime.

By: maxcar

maxcar — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:19:14 +0000

put the upcoming 2.0 t from the next gen. vw gti-r.

there are prolly a dozen exiges and elises in my small town. i about blow my load every time i see one. pitty i don’t fit in it. otherwise there’d be 13.

By: Need4SSpeed

Need4SSpeed — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:13:22 +0000

“California GT

Yeas i’m sure Lotus is going to be all over a GM Ecotec engine…with its 5000 K redline. They need a ligter car not a slower one.”

Actually it’s around 7k with the 2.0L Ecotec…. Plus what’s the point of having RPM’s if there’s no real top end power for those high RPM’s cough… (V-TEC)!!!

By: gtv6

gtv6 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:36:04 +0000

The elise, in general is a better road going car. It’s already an all out sports car – looks better than the exige, you can drop the top, and it has better visibility. The exige is really a track car, I wouldn’t spend the extra money… I’d rather have an elise.

By: Mr. Piston

Mr. Piston — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:21:09 +0000

Speak for yourself LS7…

By: Get Real

Get Real — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:20:52 +0000

The Land of the Free…..what a joke we have become in 40 years.

The Feds run our lives, tax us, and smell our tailpipes then tax us some more to save banks.

And we can’t buy a small, low production, car.

By: LS7

LS7 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:39:12 +0000

What’s up with people crying “Bring it over?”

You’re not going to get one even if they brought 1,000,000 units over. You’ll still be starring at it on your monitor. It’s actually better off that it never comes over, so you don’t have to face that reality.

By: dvsutton

dvsutton — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:14:04 +0000

The S2000 motor is a pile of junk too, just like this sludged up Toyota POS. Trust me I know a thing or two about Toyota reliability! My Toyota Camry’s engine failed under the famous sludge coverup. My son’s 8k mile Tundra has had a cracked camshaft and rattles like its been driven on railroad traks for 100k miles. Needless to say I don’t like Japanese brands anymore for good reason.

By: urmomspanties

urmomspanties — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:30:14 +0000

I’m still a bit upset that they never put the S2000 motor in these. Its a FAR superior motor to the Toyotas and much more bullet proof…

Great looking car BUT once again, the US market doesn’t get a kick-ass car…

Sucks to be American now-a-days!

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:40:56 +0000

NEED MORE OIL YOU CRACK ME UP…………
GM ENGINE IN A LOTUS…….THAT’S A GOOD ONE, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY NEXT? A 350 CHEVY SMALL BLOCK IN A BUGATTI..???……..LOL…LOL…LOL…….

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:05:07 +0000

I don’t know what looks better, the car or the girl?

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:43:13 +0000

Put a freakin’ Briggs & Stratton in the damn thing- just bring it over.

By: California GT

California GT — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:18:57 +0000

Yeas i’m sure Lotus is going to be all over a GM Ecotec engine…with its 5000 K redline. They need a ligter car not a slower one.

By: Need4SSpeed

Need4SSpeed — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:16:30 +0000

I love this car. It looks so bad-ass to in this livery. 0-60 under 4 seconds? Wow!

The Toyota sourced 1.8 i-VVT 4cyl is a pretty good engine. But it’s old. Not that that matters. I do think that if they did use the LNF (2.0L DI VVT 260hp & 260ft lbs torque) I know the solstic GXP and Sky RL owners are getting 350-400whp on just a bigger turbo, + bigger intercooler, charge piping, and supporting mods of course. Imagine one of these with that kind of HP…

But yeah amazing car none-the-less.

By: Stinky007

Stinky007 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:35:56 +0000

^ I LOLed
The engine is good enough, so why spend more money on a different engine!?

By: hfry

hfry — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:28:18 +0000

^^^^^^ im with stupid ^^^^^^^^

By: Need more oil for GM

Need more oil for GM — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:23:46 +0000

Lotus needs to dump that sludgepit Toyota engine for a GM Ecotec