Unreliable junk.

FAIL

Be American Buy American. Buy GM.
Diversity is Perversity

Don’t they already have a 260hp version of the Exige S with a 4-banger?

@ A4…maybe they’ll boost the 3.5L V6 to make even more horsepower?

NMOFGM

Tell me what car I can get from GM thats mid-engined, small, fast and RWD?

i would like an Exige with the old 3.2l straight six from the M3 CSL , i think that engine would fit perfectly to the character of this car.

A Solstice GXP or Saturn Redline are infinitly more enjoyable while being built by the Standard of the world in quality, relibility and dependibility.

Be American. Buy American. Buy GM.

Diversity is Perversity

NMOfGM

What pils are you tking because they seem to be very effective? If you’d ever driven a Lotus you would make such silly statements.

NMOfGM, thank you for the good laugh.

By the way, Lotus is back in F1. Celebration ensues.

NMOfGM,
I know I won’t make any dent in your ignorant and stubborn personality. But so that no one else on here actually believes anything that you say:

I own a supercharged lotus Elise. I considered the Sky Redline when shopping. I drove the Sky and the engine is beautiful but GM completely ruined the entire package when the put a TRUCK 5 speed manual in the car…

The lotus is far superior in driving aspects to the Sky and Solstice. Even as stubborn as you are, if you actually DROVE any of the cars you make comments on, you would agree that for a drivers car, you cant beat a lotus, especially not with a Sky or Solstice.

Hey Needs More Penis,

I would give you one guess where the Ponitac/Saturn cars are derived from. But since you would no doubt fail harder than trying to graduate 5th grade, I will just tell you that they are derived from the Vauxhall VX220 which is a close cousin to the Elise.

Go sit in the corner,suck your thumb and let the grownups talk.

FAIL

The part that I dont understand is how left lane can claim they know there is a v6 in there… The body looks exactly like a MY09 exige with fender flairs riveted on. I know a few lotus owners with flairs very similar to those. So from the outside it looks exactly the same as any other modified exige, I dont get how they can claim they know there is a v6 inside? I would think there is just as good of a chance that they caught someone running around in a modified exige and thought it had a different engine.

FFS , stop replying to NMOFGM , he’s just the resident forum troll.

NMOFGM – Did you say Pontiac? or Saturn? Funny seeing as how those two sub-par brands are soon to be nonexistent. Idiot.

You don’t drive Lotus’s you get driven in them (on the back of flatbeds and towtrucks)

GM. AN American Revolution

NMOFGM: OOPS! Looks like you forgot… your lovely company killed the Solstice/Sky. I’d love to buy one… but I can’t.

Go suck a fattie.

U have confederate flags for wallpaper don’t u?

The pontiac solstace even got cancelled in TRANSFORMERS

You beat me to it RaineMan!

V6 + lotus = Rocket ship to the moon. Its like putting a chair and wheels on an engine and just going! Me gusta mucho

I believe that Toyota V6 actually puts out close to 300hp… if it is the same one from the Camry. Sadly enough a V6 Camry is one of the fastest cars on the road for under $25,000. That engine is a monster.

Can we all vote on whether we can get NMOFGM banned from this site, because he is such an idiot the he even makes ‘mentally-challenged’ people seem brilliant……..Calling him an idiot is actually bringing him up a couple of notches…

ooh…looks like fun…lots and lots of evil fun…i like!

Bosley – agree 100%. I am in

RaineMan,
I beleive you are incorrect. The 3.5 they speak of is the non direct injection engine that is in the Evora. The 3.5 you speak of has direct injection and does not fit longitudinally in the Evora nevermind the even smaller elise/exige.

Been a while since I’ve done this:
@NMOFGM: You must be completely mentally retarded if you say the Kappa Twins are better than the Exige. Nothing it’s size can beat it, even a Porsche Cayman S PDK because, it’s extremely light and it has a mid-engined layout. NMOFGM: You need to hit yourself at your 1973 Chevy Chevette or whatever POS you have.

Back on the Exige V6, if the engine is turbocharged and makes 350+hp, sign me up.
Bosley- count me in

Twin turbocharge the engine, and get it to make more than 350 HP, THEN we can finally call this Exige a rocket ship.

I’d like to see Subaru’s diesel boxer engine shoved in there.

I have always thought a 300 Hp turbo 4, like an EVO or STI motor would perfect the Lotus experience. Lazy V6 personality does not seem to fit the car too me. Everyone is talking about the lightness of the car making it great, but no concern over added Lbs of V6.

Actually GM owned Lotus for while, so shouldn’t NMOFGM be WITH Lotus and not against them?

The Camry V6 looks like its a real good engine, I sat in a bunch of Camry’s once and some them actually sounded decent, not sure if its the V6 or not.

Go Lotus, Go!

i think lotus needs to stop using toyota engines, then i will consider one. I just can’t get over the fact that i am essentially driving an extremely beefed up camry.

I also don’t get Lotus’ addiction to Toyota engines. Put the LNF in there and wahoo! Over 300hp… that is a beast. Who needs the extra weight of a V6 when you have a turbo 4 that can push like that.

Stupid comments by Reed aside

Toyota = winner
Toyota + Lotus = superstar!

Why use Toyota engines?
That’s like saying why sunbath in the daytime
Or why use gasoline in that engine
You want it work, don’t you?
DrFill

Stop replying to NMOFGM, he stopped posting for a couple of months when we all skipped his comments.

Lotus should just use a lightweight 4-banger with a larger twin-turbo and push the power higher than the V6 without all the weight. And if they use sequential turbos of different diameters/variable angle (a la 911 turbo), then kiss goodbye to turbo lag.

Long live quality turbo 4-bangers!!

I was going to say that the Toyota engines are solid and they work well in the Lotus… then Dr Fill came along like the jackass Yota banger he is and made me reconsider.

i second scratchy and shaver, but i think the S52b32 inline-six from the M3 would probably not fit in the elise / exige engine (dimension-wise), even though it would very well as far as character is concerned.

also, in my opinion, honda k20a / k20z engines (Civic Type-R, Si), or k24a2 / k24z3 with 11:1 compression ratio (Accord Type-S / TSX) would be much better fit (same ore more extreme character) with no sacrifice in capable fuel-efficiency, improved reliability over the the supercharged Celica GT-S engine, and the same or increased performance

or why not an EcoTec engine ? lmao

elise-exige engine bay **

this is one sexy beast. all american car fans can **** off this can actually go round a corner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let us not forget the Lotus when GM ran things…. Maybe that’s what Need More Oil is referring to… They were the Lotus that had the habit of breaking down due to electrical system failures

@nickkop

Over here in the UK there is a grand old tradition of putting a K20A into Series 1 Exiges, Elises and series 2 Elises (same shape you have in the US).

I defy anyone to have a ride in a supercharged chargecooled 360bhp Exige and want to put anything else in it… it is sensational.

For those wanting more… go see Frank (Ronin) over at MonkeyTuner.com… he has a 500+bhp S2 Exige that he blows up once a month. That that thing goes so fast it goes back in time!

If you want to see more… YouTube is your friend.

yeah i did see that on youtube, and some other sites… thats some amazing stuff… im just saying that the k20a / k20z or even k24z3 (tsx engine with 10.5:1 compression) should be standard issue…

These would be great cars if they didn’t have pos Toyotas 4 cylinder engines. Even if they weren’t from Toyota, paying more than 25 grand for a 4 cylinder is stupid.