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After a 15-year hiatus, Lotus is achievement backwards to Formula One, and to immortalize its convey to the crowning tier of motorsport, the Hethel gathering is creating yet another primary Exige inspired by the Type 72 that submissive F1 in the Seventies.
Like nearly every another restricted edition Lotus free in the terminal few years, the Exige S Type 72 is little more than a repainted, kitted-up version of its midship masterpiece. The supercharged, 1.8-liter inline quaternary remains unchanged, swing discover 220 horsepower and allowing the two-tone coupe to running to 60 in 4.5 seconds and on to a crowning pace of 145 mph.
A ordered of copy fiber ProBax climb way swathed in black microfiber with oppositeness handicraft ties in with the exterior's metallic wheels and emblems, patch accepted match oil 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 right of the mainland (no word on U.S. distribution), apiece carrying a toll tag 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 flourishing 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 three Formula One Constructors' Championships (1970, 1972 and 1973) and digit Drivers' World Championships (the first being won by Jochen Rindt in 1970 and the second by author Fittipaldi in 1972).
The colouration plot of the Exige S Type 72 commemorates the famous and easily recognisable black and metallic Lotus Type 72 conveying and is ended by the same sign illustrator who varnished racing cars for Team Lotus.
Performance ended reddened coefficient has long 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 achievement a crowning pace of 145 mph, 233 km/h. The Exige S Type 72 also offers collection directive render frugalness and emissions, with render frugalness of 6.5 litres/100 km (43.5 mpg) on the Extra Urban Cycle and CO2 emissions of 199 g/km.
The Exige S Type 72 is a coercive emotional mid-engined sportscar that is equally at bag on the racetrack or open road. The intercooled engine has VVTL-i profession ensuring impressive action every the way to the process limiter at 8500 rpm.
The Sport Pack comes as accepted on the Exige S Type 72 which has a customized broad calibre interior, including black micro material ProBax sports way with metallic stitching. Each automobile comes with a primary physique bag ceremonial digit of the F1 car's 20 Grand Prix victories. The outdoor of the Exige S Type 72 features unequalled black and metallic reddened coefficient wheels and is ended with hand-painted metallic Type 72 and Exige S logos, (the Sport Pack also includes a T45 steel important listing hoop, Lotus Traction Control, match oil coolers and an adjustable face anti-roll bar).
All Lotus cars offer unpaid direction and performance, and the Exige is no exception offering superior kinetics and enthusiastic utility involvement. Lotus ride and direction gives an exalting dynamical undergo and the mid-engined layout of the Lotus Exige S Type 72 offers fantastic balance and agility.
Luke Bennett, Operations Director for Lotus Cars Limited stated, "The Lotus Exige S Type 72 is an mindful sportscar, combining cutting bounds direction and action with the iconic Type 72 colouration scheme, digit of the most famous racing liveries of every time. The Exige provides an intense dynamical undergo either on agency or track and this restricted edition is a worthy automobile to celebrate much a legendary racing car."
Clive Chapman, Director of Classic Team Lotus said, "The Type 72 was a rattling significant automobile for Team Lotus and indeed for the world of F1. It was a revolutionary organisation that pioneered the ingest of side mounted radiators to attain its characteristic 'wedge' profile, which delivered a significant 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 sextet years."
The Exige S Type 72 options include: Air Conditioning, Limited Slip Differential and the Performance Pack, which includes a power process to 240 PS, large AP Racing brakes, enlarged roof scoop (compared to the accepted Exige S) and Lotus variable rubbing control and Lotus start control.
To immortalize the impressive sort of Grand Prix wins the Type 72 achieved, Lotus module be producing 20 of this primary edition for the UK, a boost 20 cars for mainland aggregation and there module be a restricted separate of cars in Nihon 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 local land tax.
Exige S: 199 g/km CO2
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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