Considering an Exige Sport 350, looking for advice

[andyhatton]

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.

[andyhatton]

Thanks for the comments and advice.

I'm not a particularly fast track driver, I just do them to enjoy driving in a way you can't do on the public road these days.