Lotus Exige

The Lotus Exige is a sports car that Lotus Cars made from 2000 until 2021. It began as a hardtop coupe version of the Elise roadster, with a non-removable roof, a kamm-tail rear and a pylon-mounted wing, and the first Series 1 cars used a naturally aspirated 1.8 litre Rover K Series four-cylinder engine rated at 177 hp. Only 604 Series 1 cars were made before the Series 2 arrived in 2004 with a Toyota engine. From the Series 3 the Exige became the larger-engined model of the family, with a V6 in place of the Elise four-cylinder. The French word exige means demand or require.