Considering an Exige Sport 350, looking for advice
Discussion
As the title says, I'm considering an Exige Sport 350, and I'm looking for advice / opinions on the car.
I'm mostly concerned about its usability on track. My common sence says a lightweight sports car such as this should be ideal, but the reality isn't always the case. I don't want to get into Lotus reliability tropes, but I've seen a few Elise going awry, spilling fluids that they shouldn't. At least once I've had to put on my wipers while following one that was doing a great impression of a kettle. Maybe they were modified, (badly) who knows.
Currently I've a BMW M135i which is fairly extensively modified to suit my taste and for use on track. It's now very well behaved on track days, although fundamentally it's a heavy passenger car so it's obviously never going to be a sports car.
I don't really want to go down the route of modifying an Exige, replacing suspension parts, brakes etc to make the car a viable trackday proposition. I'm really looking for it to be usable out of the box.
Any advice or opinions are gretly apprecaited. Thanks.
I'm mostly concerned about its usability on track. My common sence says a lightweight sports car such as this should be ideal, but the reality isn't always the case. I don't want to get into Lotus reliability tropes, but I've seen a few Elise going awry, spilling fluids that they shouldn't. At least once I've had to put on my wipers while following one that was doing a great impression of a kettle. Maybe they were modified, (badly) who knows.
Currently I've a BMW M135i which is fairly extensively modified to suit my taste and for use on track. It's now very well behaved on track days, although fundamentally it's a heavy passenger car so it's obviously never going to be a sports car.
I don't really want to go down the route of modifying an Exige, replacing suspension parts, brakes etc to make the car a viable trackday proposition. I'm really looking for it to be usable out of the box.
Any advice or opinions are gretly apprecaited. Thanks.
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