Lotus to produce 25 customer F1 cars

[CNR]

http://www.skiddmark.com/2010/08/09/...tomer-f1-cars/

Lotus announced today in California plans to produce an F1-derived car called the Exos Type 125.If you can get past the clunky name you’ll be happy to hear the Exos features a 3.5L Cosworth GPV8 that has been detuned to produce 650bhp with a 10,300rpm redline (10,800rpm when push to pass is activated). As the car just weighs 650kg this means the approximate 1000bhp/ton figure should make the Exos the quickest toy on any track day

if the green is the color of lotus why are the blue ?

[Saint Devote]

Lotus looks to be spreading themselves wide - time for an implosion countdown perhaps?

[wmcot]

Anyone have a price on these machines?

[Cooper_S]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsAr...llCars/251835/


Autocar (UK) are reporting them as £650,000 each

[Retro Formula 1]

It's ambitious, I'll give them that.

Top marks for initiative.

I think for my money though, I would just buy an old GP2 car.

[Marshall]

Wonder if this is a way they can get F1 parts tested and shook down without actually running an F1 car

[turismo6]

Not a bad looking unit... i wonder how big those rims are....

It will be interesting to see it in "Any livery they want, including Lotus's iconic JPS, Camel and green and gold liveries."

[Easy Drifter]

And just what is anyone going to do with them?
Go club racing?

[DazzlaF1]

And just what is anyone going to do with them?
Go club racing?

Im sensing yet another junior race series, or perhaps the beginning of A1GP's resurrection?

[Sonic]

Im sensing yet another junior race series, or perhaps the beginning of A1GP's resurrection?

Oh goody. Another series to dilute the talent pool It used to be a motorsport ladder, now its a poxy Motorsport pyramid.