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2 Feb 2003, 20:41 (Ref:494098) | #1 | |
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Racing version of Lotus Exige
In the Dutch Supercar Challenge (A series with cars like the Marcos, Porsches, BMW M3's, etcetera ). A newcomer in the series is a Lotus Exige. The seat is placed in the middle of the car like in the McLaren F1. Is this true :confused: :confused: , where is the gearbox placed? Any pictures?
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2 Feb 2003, 20:59 (Ref:494121) | #2 | |
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Sounds like one of the cars from the one-make Elise series that ran in the UK a couple of years back.
http://www.redshoes-archive.com/One_Make/Lotus_Elise/ |
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2 Feb 2003, 21:11 (Ref:494134) | #3 | |
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Why is the seat placed in the middle? Is is because of weight balancing or safety reasons?
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2 Feb 2003, 22:23 (Ref:494211) | #4 | |
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Weight distibution I believe. Not sure what they did about the gearbox but surely it's only a matter of moving the linkage to one side.
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2 Feb 2003, 23:03 (Ref:494282) | #5 | ||
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Re: Racing version of Lotus Exige
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seriously though, the car has a transversly mounted rover k series engine and gearbox, the type found in mg zr and zs models etc probaly has a cable operated gear change so wouldnt have thought the problem of moving the gear shift would have been a trouble at all. for info just type in lotus elise in yahoo, youll get loads of enthusiast pages |
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