Lotus Exige S 240: First Drive - Jalopnik
Since people with money buy fast cars, we've partnered with TheStreet. And since people with money now have less money than before we decided to review the Lotus Exige S 240, the car for supercar shoppers on a budget. Obviously, there are also moments of stunned amazement, because this is a truly uncompromised sports car, and extended periods of low-level irritation, occasionally verging on terror, because this is one godawful car in traffic and around town. You don't really know oversteer or understeer or polar moments of inertia or curb appeal or sex appeal, and you don't yet care. You just know that cars should just skim down the road as fast as possible. When you're seven, the only cars you ever think of are race cars. But evidently so is Lotus, where all their cars are "race cars for the street," and none more so than the Exige S 240. It has the stiff suspension, the bare-bones interior with thinly-padded buckets, the unpowered steering done through a thick... And it's all propelled by a supercharged and intercooled Yamaha-engineered Toyota motor that screams in your ear all day and takes up all your rear visibility, making the challenge of daily driving far too real at times. But bombing the Exige through Brooklyn traffic, while no one's idea of a good time in any car, was not as bad. Source: jalopnik.com
