The 2010 Lotus Exige Cup 260: someone cares about us

With Porsche producing SUVs and sedans, and Ferrari making folding hard-top cars for trophy wives instead of hard-core cars for trophy cabinets, it’s nice to see a company still coming out with stuff for dedicated driving enthusiasts. So it’s with a spine-tingling thrill that we present the supercharged and intercooled 2010 Lotus Exige Cup 260.

In what is essentially a road-legal track car, the Exige Cup 260 is homologated for road use in Europe, Asia and North America. And even though it keeps the same amount of power as the 2009 model, it’s 83.6 pounds lighter (in keeping with the Lotus lightness philosophy) and has a more efficient aerodynamic package. Note also the larger roof scoop.

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Every once in a while we will get a tuner car sent to us for testing that the builder thought needed a bit of an edge. They want to impress us with the cars handling, its ability to put down power and its face altering brakes. For some reason they think we won’t notice the car is on race tires. We always look at tires, some people may think of them as just round and black things that protect the bling, but not us. If seeing the lack of tread and square shoulders wasn’t enough, we would certainly notice the primeval roar reverberating throughout the interior of the car that race tires invariably make, and if nothing else, we would wad up their precious car the first time we tried driving in the wet.