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After a 15-year hiatus, Lotus is reaching back to Formula One, and to immortalize its return to the crowning worker of motorsport, the Hethel crew is creating yet another special Exige inspired by the Type 72 that submissive F1 in the Seventies.
Like nearly every another restricted edition Lotus released in the last some years, the Exige S Type 72 is lowercase more than a repainted, kitted-up version of its midship masterpiece. The supercharged, 1.8-liter inline four remains unchanged, swing discover 220 H.P. and allowing the two-tone coupe to running to 60 in 4.5 seconds and on to a crowning pace of 145 mph.
A set of copy material ProBax sport artefact swathed in black microfiber with oppositeness handicraft ties in with the exterior's metallic wheels and emblems, while accepted match lubricator coolers and an adjustable face anti-roll forbid round discover the mechanical upgrades.
Lotus has slated 20 Type 72s for understanding in the UK, with another 20 sure for markets outside of the mainland (no articulate on U.S. distribution), apiece carrying a toll attach of £35,995 or 40,332 euro. Not cheap, but then again, how do you put a toll on nostalgia?
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Lotus Exige S Type 72
The Lotus Exige S Type 72 celebrates the most successful F1 automobile of every time, the Lotus Type 72 Formula One car, which achieved 20 Grand Prix victories between 1970 and 1975.
The Lotus Type 72 was unvoluntary by much Lotus greats as Jochen Rindt, author Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson and Jacky Ickx and won threesome Formula One Constructors' Championships (1970, 1972 and 1973) and digit Drivers' World Championships (the prototypal being won by Jochen Rindt in 1970 and the second by author Fittipaldi in 1972).
The colour scheme of the Exige S Type 72 commemorates the famous and easily identifiable black and metallic Lotus Type 72 livery and is ended by the aforementioned clew illustrator who painted racing cars for Team Lotus.
Performance through light coefficient has daylong been a Lotus philosophy. The 935kg Exige S Type 72 sprints to 60 indication in meet 4.5 seconds and to 100 evaluate in 4.7 seconds, before reaching a crowning pace of 145 mph, 233 km/h. The Exige S Type 72 also offers collection leading render frugalness and emissions, with render frugalness of 6.5 litres/100 km (43.5 mpg) on the Extra Urban Cycle and dioxide emissions of 199 g/km.
The Exige S Type 72 is a powerful emotional mid-engined sportscar that is equally at home on the racetrack or unstoppered road. The intercooled engine has VVTL-i profession ensuring impressive action every the artefact to the increase circuit at 8500 rpm.
The Sport Pack comes as accepted on the Exige S Type 72 which has a customized high calibre interior, including black micro fibre ProBax sports artefact with metallic stitching. Each automobile comes with a special build bag ceremonial digit of the F1 car's 20 Grand Prix victories. The exterior of the Exige S Type 72 features unique black and metallic light coefficient wheels and is ended with hand-painted metallic Type 72 and Exige S logos, (the Sport Pack also includes a T45 poise important listing hoop, Lotus Traction Control, match lubricator coolers and an adjustable face anti-roll bar).
All Lotus cars substance unpaid direction and performance, and the Exige is no exception substance superior kinetics and great utility involvement. Lotus ride and direction gives an exalting dynamical undergo and the mid-engined layout of the Lotus Exige S Type 72 offers strange balance and agility.
Luke Bennett, Operations Director for Lotus Cars Limited stated, "The Lotus Exige S Type 72 is an mindful sportscar, combining selection bounds direction and action with the iconic Type 72 colour scheme, digit of the most famous racing liveries of every time. The Exige provides an pure dynamical undergo either on agency or agency and this restricted edition is a worthy automobile to fete much a unreal racing car."
Clive Chapman, Director of Classic Team Lotus said, "The Type 72 was a rattling momentous automobile for Team Lotus and indeed for the concern of F1. It was a revolutionary organisation that pioneered the ingest of lateral mounted radiators to achieve its characteristic 'wedge' profile, which delivered a momentous aerodynamic advantage. Furthermore, by minimising unsprung coefficient and using a torsion bar, ascension evaluate suspension, ring action was excellent. The Lotus Type 72 organisation was so modern that it was combative for an exceptional six years."
The Exige S Type 72 options include: Air Conditioning, Limited Slip Differential and the Performance Pack, which includes a power increase to 240 PS, large AP Racing brakes, large roof scoop (compared to the accepted Exige S) and Lotus uncertain rubbing control and Lotus start control.
To immortalize the impressive number of Grand Prix wins the Type 72 achieved, Lotus module be producing 20 of this special edition for the UK, a further 20 cars for mainland aggregation and there module be a restricted separate of cars in Japan and designated markets around the world.
Lotus Exige S Type 72 prices:
UK Price: £35,995 MRSP, excluding on the agency costs of £950
Euro regularize price: €40,332, including conveying and another on the agency costs, excluding topical land tax.
Exige S: 199 g/km dioxide
8.5 l/100 km (33.2 mpg) Combined Cycle
11.9 l/100 km (23.7 mpg) Urban Cycle
6.5 litres/100 km (43.5 mpg) Extra Urban Cycle
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