{"id":237,"date":"2004-04-25T13:33:44","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T20:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-one-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/25\/this-is-the-one-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the one I want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Gear tells us about the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/content\/features\/stories\/geneva_2004\/08\/\">Lotus Exige<\/a>. I want it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/images\/blog\/new_lotus_exige_2004-04.jpg\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>It looks like a bad ass alien, features Lotus handling, and has a Toyota engine tweaked by Lotus:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blockquote\">Not that the engine is all that heavy itself, of course, being an all-alloy unit, but in conjunction with Toyota&#8217;s six-speed manual gearbox it&#8217;s the perfect companion for this latest Lotus &#8211; <strong>the company&#8217;s engineers devised a new management system for the engine<\/strong>, making it better suited to trackday use with top torque of 133lbf.ft coming in at a massive 6800rpm and max power arriving even further up the rev range at 7800rpm. <\/p>\n<p>One major difference is that Lotus has aimed to get rid of the thump-in-the-back difference between cam profiles that&#8217;s so noticeable (and intoxicating) in the Celica. The company was keen to avoid upsetting the balance of the car; the high-speed cam comes in at around 6200rpm but stays working until you drop below 5800rpm, meaning you won&#8217;t be bumped back down to standard output during gearchanges &#8211; though with a red shift light on the dash, you should always be able to change up at exactly the right moment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Plus it weighs just 1929 pounds, has a hard top, and gets 32.1 mpg. Cool.<\/p>\n<p>More photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/content\/fun_stuff\/gallery\/C5\/XX\/gallery\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Gear tells us about the new Lotus Exige. I want it. It looks like a bad ass alien, features Lotus handling, and has a Toyota engine tweaked by Lotus: Not that the engine is all that heavy itself, of course, being an all-alloy unit, but in conjunction with Toyota&#8217;s six-speed manual gearbox it&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-3P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}