This Ultra Rare Lotus Exige S1 Redefines What I Thought Was Hardcore
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- čas přidán 1. 11. 2017
- Today on the show we've got a 2000 Lotus Exige S1 (track-spec) in our command for a full day of driving and tearing up the twisty backroads. This extremely rare example of the Exige made its way to the USA originally back in the year 2000 when Lotus USA imported 8 LHD examples for track use only. Since the car is over 15 year old, it has been recently registered and insured for use on public roads in Canada. Under the engine lid is a slightly modified Rover 4-cylinder engine. It's all naturally aspirated, all analog, loud as hell, and it's the track weapon i've always wanted to drive on the street. Enjoy!
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This is the car that made me realize how soft and cozy a stock MR2 turbo is lol. Checkout our weekly podcast! :D Link in the description
I have to say that I have been watching your videos for some time now and after seeing this one. I would like to commend you on how far you guys have come. It was a pleasure to sit and watch you describe the experience. You are getting better at this and you should be acknowledge for that. Please keep up the hard work because it is going to pay off. Please keep making videos like this or even better than this.
Thanks.
I've been on the search for a video of an S1 exige recorded in this decade for a while that was awesome!. I have an MR2 Turbo as well as an R53 Mini; this looks like what would pop out if they had an angry baby hahaha. Great video! Thanks to the owner and you for sharing it.
One is for the track, and the other is for daily drive ahahah
MR2 Stock suspension is nice if you have back problems or if you are an old man :D You should try out some d2 street coilovers, I put them on my MR2 W2 and she is a real treat to drive now. Hella fun to go togue hunting with! (And it helps to avoid snap-oversteering into a tree)
Drive an Ariel atom and you will find that this car is cozy.
A guy who doesn't like a car like this can not be called a "car guy".
You generally read the early comments, just thought I'd let you know you inspired and motivated me to add a Toyota MR2 SW20 to my ever growing JDM car collection :) Thanks Marcus!!
oooohh well i'm glad you enjoy it :D
I've drove an Exige and an Elise a couple years ago, what I felt after having driven it is that you should drive it if you can afford one, or just turn around and run away as fast as you can if you can't afford one, simply becuase there's nothing, and I mean literally nothing, that can be more involving than this car.
It'll be a pain in the ass every single time you'll be looking for a new car to buy.
Yep, its peak car. Nothing you drive again will be the same.
I own an exige and I disagree. Caterham is the final level.
@@FrankHerfjord you are right, too!!
@@FrankHerfjord Couldn’t agree more. Caterham is probably the pinnacle. I certainly benchmark ALL cars against the K series Caterham that I owned back in the day.
@@drew699 I did the Palmersport event in the UK where we drove a LMP2 style two seater , a Formula Renault, an Ariel Atom and a race riggered E92 with slicks and wings. None of those came close the visceral experience of a Caterham. Many were faster of course, but who cares? Zero to sixty times are for the sales ads. Lap times are for races. But the driving experience is what matters for enthusiasts. And nothing beats a Caterham for that.
Am I the only who thought it was a RC car in the thumbnail lol???
nope I thought so too XD
YEEAAHH. was searching for this comment lol
Yeah same here. I thought so too. Perfect background and angle to make you think it looks like an rc car haha
what a special special car
The specialist of special
About 10 years since my father bought one, the sound of the 1.8L atmospheric Rover engine inside the Exige S1 is spectacular thanks to the massive carbon airbox. It took me a lot of time to get used to it. 60,000km and the engine still has 174HP (originally rated at 177HP). These cars can last a lifetime if you take good care of them. I wish he never sells it, you can't find anything quite like it anymore, supercharged Lotus are way more powerful but can't match this one in terms of sound.
OMG THE EXIGE S1 HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT ID NEVER SEE A VIDEO ABOUT ONE MADE IN NORTH AMERICA EVER!
Favorite car of all time right here, MR2 as the attainable close second.
Wouldn't a lotus elise technically be the attainable close second ?
I actually like the mr2 more than the elise, it is certainly a very interesting vehicle- but without the looks of a well modified mr2 or an exige. Also the BEST mr2 for what id want would only set you back 10-15k, where a stock beat up elise is mid 20's to 30's.
Buy an elise s1 and put the exige body panels on it. Straight bolt on affair however you might want to paint them first😀
If you want an attainable Elise/Exige and MG TF160 is a better choice as it's where most of the parts for the Elise/Exige were sourced!
You get to enjoy hearing that Rover 18K screaming away behind you for half the price!
Dude, I have been anticipating this review since your IG post a while back ago! Love the Lotus and that sound. Eargasms all the way through
Love the video, amazing car! I have a S2 Cup 260 and these little cars drive like a dream. Lots of noise inside and hard suspension, but so much fun for a sunday morning drive!
I love the Elise S1 and still have a 1999 S1 111S stashed in my batcave. It has a tuned original K block engine....nice and light!
It's been there without moving since 2014...long story, a mechanic made a mess of the cambelt change, through not using the sprocket lock, and there was a very light coming together of pistons and valves. I can't see any problems with compression, and the leakdown test also shows no damage so I'm hoping next year when I hope to fire it up again all will be well.
It's 200kg lighter than the S1 Exige and has 14bhp more.....I once had a Gp4 bodied Renault-Alpine A110 (the 70s version) and deeply regret having sold that, so the Elise won't be sold!
this car is awesome total involvement ... lightweight ... completely raw great job
Sick car, as much i love turbo cars, nothing can beat the sound of a NA
Awesome Video Man!
My favorite rear-mid engine car! So light, nimble, and so connected with the road, I bet that driving it for a day was an amazing experience..
All the LOVE what a color and what a beast!! 👍👍👍👍
Awesome awesome video Marcus!
This is The Best Drivers Car of all time. Not Honda, not BMW or such.. But this Lotus Exige S1.
A proper sport/weekend car!!! Great review Marcus!!!
Such a cool car! Great video guys!
Very nice video once again, keep up the good work you're one of my favorite CZcamsr!👌🚗🔥
that red steering wheel in the orange car though...
lol yup
Matches the fire extinguisher😁
jakumeitgerd yes and the pull switches ;)
Yeah Red is the safety colour for engine kill pulls, fire extinguisher pulls and steering wheel (remove to help get driver out) as it is more visible in most conditions. Just like tow pulls usually are too.
The old Lotus F1 race cars had red steering wheels, so I think it is a way of showing respect to those.
amazing review and what a car, realy a beautifull example, I have a lotus elise s2 with exige trim and the rover vvc engine tuned with single cam conversion, itg carbon intake, 4-2-1 Larini full exhaust en emerald ecu, good for 190hp for 750kg, like you said it perfectly, driving this car is an event, it's different than anything else, it scares you sometimes but a good kinda fear. Best car I ever had and probably will ever own, so priviledged to have this.
Definitely need this added on my list of cars to own!
What a sweet ride. Might be the best sounding 4 cylinder I've heard. Damn it sounds good.
Agreed. Those Rover engines are something else. They sound so fucking good.
Hey
i own a MK2 Elise.. it is the Best car i ever had!! even with 120hp it makes more fun than my Impreza STI !!
WOuld be happy to see more Lotus on your Channel !!
Regards from Austria (Y)
I have owned this Exige for almost 2 years now and it is as fun to drive as you see in this video! Almost spring time and time to take it out of hibernation😎
Love the paint 😍 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hey Marcus. What a maniacal little beast of a car!😠 While Exiges may not be up to supercar levels, they are special. I like how you called it "an event"... well put.👍 I hope to own an Exige S240 one day so I can rip through the western North Carolina mountain roads. Great review, brother!👊 Cheers!
What on earth are you doing here?! :)
NelKel JDM You know I love Canadaland!😍 Been a big fan of Marcus and RU for quite a while and Lotus for even longer, so it only makes sense for me to be here.😆 Y'all have a great day!
The adjective you're looking for is manic. Converted to a noun, it becomes maniac. It doesn't need the -al to become an adjective again.
Rick C Hi Rick.🙋 About two weeks ago, I found the word I was looking for and it was maniacal. Maniacal was the appropriate word for me to describe that little beast of a car at the time of my original comment and is now, so I feel no need to make an edit. Feel free to use the word manic in your comment to Marcus if you would like. Have a good weekend, sir.
Loving the angles
Best car review channel on CZcams! 10/10 👏🏾👌🏾
That heel and toe action🔥🔥🔥
That idle!! 😍
Very sad that the US hasn’t had the chance to drive these cars (S1 Elise & Exige) for 25 years! The S1 Elise is now I understand eligible for import. The S3 Exige is a beast and again US has missed out on this too. An early Elise S1 with MMC is 700KG - nothing comes close to it other than a Caterham. You don’t know what you’ve been missing & now we all find ourselves in the dying days of the ICE.....
This made me smile
What a wonderful machine.
Great content as usual. Get your arse over here to Blighty and take a VX220 or Exige into the Welsh valleys.
RFSA180 agreed, either into Wales, north Yorkshire or Scotland. Best roads on the planet
I did the A93 from Perth to Aberdeen via Braemar in an S1 Exige, an Elise Sport 190 and a VXR 220. The VXR wasn’t as hardcore as the two Lotus’ but was quicker and more fun to drive with its turbo motor putting out more torque. Great times long gone :(
now thats a real car
Nice review, always loved the exige/ Elise. Maybe if you had the chance you can review an aw11 mr2? Partially designed by lotus, it feels like a mini Elise, super raw and tons of fun :)
mad video mate!
I own mine since 2010, it's the 177bhp version and my pleasure is intact. Comments are very accurate!!
Hi, excellent review, I knew you were Canadian because you are well spoken.
Ah good old Gran Turismo 3 days
10:37 "bapada..bapada..bapada" it was exactly what I was thinking 😂😂😂
Absolute weapon.
The S1 Exige has been my absolute dream car since my childhood playing Sega GT 2002 on the original green and black XBox. As proud as I am to own my Final Edition S260, I would love to import an S1 Exige when the 25 year mark gets here. I'm just a total simp for that recessed/sunken rear end look. Such a beautiful car. Just need more garage space. Lol.
you are superfocused! and i like it!
Amazing car and handles better than nearly anything on the road.
Love this car.
I love the fact that it looks like an rc car :)
nice video!!
I love that U mentioned SUPRA
That’s one of my dream cars😮💨
The Dream 💓💥
I had one in mustard yellow. Not all that quick in a straight line but fitted with Yokohama Advan A048 tyres as mine was, you had the benefit of not having to slow down for corners. You had to be in the mood to drive it though as it was very noisy and everyone wanted to chat with you whenever you stopped.
This car is nuts
The sound this car makes is soooo fast and furious. Like from the first one it’s such a familiar sound
That's is sick!!! A blokes got 1 near me! Dark blue, they are awesome B road killers
I have ridden (passenger) in a Lotus Elise, and you are correct, you are literally shoulder to shoulder with the driver, and I had to hold my arm out of the way so he could shift quickly (was at an autocross).
Gotta love a lotus! Noble is another UK car maker you would like
He got all in his feelings after driving a Lotus.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Good video and special car. I have too ;-)
Well done video! Looks like what i felt in my first year of s1 elise. The Elise\Exige are for weekend track toys what tesla's are for daily driving, once you've driven them most other cars (with a hardtop roof 😊) suck.
I have always loved this car ever since driving the Lotus Motor Sport Elise '99 in Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec. I had a tough choice choosing to spend the in game credits on the light green or light blue color. I ended up buying the light blue. I think it ran a 1.8L Rover engine.
0:15 Looks like you've been working out mate ;)
Dude, love the colour, beautiful sound in na package, what else do u need!
Proof us brits have a clue about cars right there.
straight up HARDCORE
This is why we drive aimlessly for hours!
Reupload? Eh, gives me an excuse to watch it again. I really do love the S1 Exige. This one's a brilliant little example.
Nice review and i m one of the luckiest owner of the Exige S1 in chrome orange also.
Ming Lau same, are we connected ?
Hey man!!!! I saw a s1 right next to my house earlier this year. It was orange and had full racing seats, roll cage, and a fire extinguisher inside...Im pretty sure it was one of the 8 track spec ones brought over to the us...and could possibly even be this car. I live in the pacific northwest, specifically Seattle area. I understand you are based out of British Coloumbia...so there is a very good possibility of these two cars being the same!!
A little less power but as hardcore is the Elise, so much fun even after 15 years ownership.
Dang this car was amazing and the video was shot well, I wonder why it flopped in views and interaction. It was always one of my favorite videos from this channel
Good looking car on the street, but it's really a dedicated track car !
a k20 swap would be the definition of madness in there !
Great video! What song was that at 5:25 btw?
Whats the music around 10min ?
0_o, I was looking at the thumbnail for a good period of time, and was thinking, this has to be an RC car, just the angle of the shot made it look like that.
Mod this car with few hundred thousand dollars with parts from different car manufacturer and tube it to more than 1k hp and sell it for over a million= Hennessy lol
Are you going to buy a 2zz swap MK3 mr2, after driving this? They seem so similar.
Fucking awesome car, loved the video 👌👌 is the engine a rover k series?
What a great video and what a great car! :) Whats the maximum rpm of the engine actually? :)
7800rpm if the engine is stock.
Alan Betts thank you :)
Is this the one For sale right now?
Cheapest mid-engine car you can buy has got to be the fiero or toyota previa, not MR2, but holy fuck this car is amazing
We have one in Poland with a k20 turbo, making about 700 whp... its a handful
Shows you, that there are idiots in any country. This thing kills you even with 300 HP.
I drove one of these on a super car day hear in England. It was alright, but the noble M12 was a lot better.
Where's the vid with the FC RX7??
I’ve owned my S1 111s for almost 20 years it’s worth as much as I paid for it then. Crap weather and Covid lockdown mean I’ve got some serious withdrawal symptoms owning an Elise is like being a heroin addict you can’t leave it alone.
coolest car you've ever featured!
The S1 Exige was a special kind of car. You should really try and get behind the wheel of an Esprit S4s or Sport 350 though if you can. People may not think of it as a Super Car, but the Sport 350 is still a life altering vehicle to drive, even 18 years after it's launch.
Paul Gamble Have you driven it ? How was it ?
I used to work for a Lotus Dealership here in the UK. I've had the good fortune to drive a number of thier offerings. The S1 Exige is a raw cammy brute of a thing, wonderful but terrifying at the same time. The Sport 350 is like sitting in on the floor in a leather lined glove that has a sligshot somehow attached to it. It feels heavy and mechanical through the steering and pedals, and that low long nose makes it damn near impossible to judge how far away you are from things in front. The gear change is a squat, meaty shifter with a short positive throw. You feel like you're really DRIVING the thing. And then, you put your foot near the throttle, those fuel injected throttle bodies crack open, the V8 throbs, and you grumble off down the road, a slight transition whine accompanying the cam-chain rattle from the V8 behind your head as you go.
All too soon, you become comfortable with this beast and you think you know it. You stab the throttle, breaking the butterflies wide open, and the twin Garrat T25 turbos spool up, slowly at first lulling you into a false sense of security. Then without warning the boost crescendo arrives, and out of nowhere and with a wiff of petrol your rev needle surges the car forward crushing your kidneys into the seat leather and 295 ft/lb of tourque married to 350BHP assault your senses forcing an involuntary lift of your right foot as your life flashes before your eyes. Chances are you weren't ready for it, and in spite of having huge 295/35 ZR18 Pirreli's on the rear, broke the back end away, adding to your terror.
Sensational isn't the word.
Paul Gamble You are a poet and a very lucky man. The best description of driving a Lotus I have ever read !!!!
Thank you, you're too kind. The Esprit really is a wonderful thing. The really fast ones like the S4 and the Sport 350 are hellish expensive to maintain, as the Turbos are almost a service item they last such a short time (only down to where Lotus had to squeeze them in, not because Garret made bad turbos) but if your pockets are deep enough, or you can work on them yourself, they're a much overlooked car.
Paul Gamble Not kind Sir, honest. I’ve always loved the Sport 350 and have viewed it as the ultimate Lotus alongside the Exige S1. The Exige S2 doesn’t really do it for me. You are right, the Esprit twin turbo is very much overlooked, the prices do suggest that.
They make these cars just down the road from my house!..
Awesome S1.....but why the S2 decals on the doors? Looks wrong with the wrong type there!
8:36 face :*D
What engine and stats? I feel like I need to experience one. That sounds is incredible!
Made In Machines Toyota 2ZZ-GE
Rover K series 1.8 bumped out to a 1.9 litre. Racing spec cam, rods, piston....everything. Runs on 105 octane race fuel.
That thumbnail makes it look like a diecast toy model
What's the song at 0:21?
I thought that these cars had their engines made by Yamaha vvti-l the same engine that came with the 7 gen celica except the lotus was turbocharged .I no that lotus made the cars to be lightweight but it is real basic inside they could of made the dashboard look better nice looking car would love a shot driving it
you could import a U.K RHD exige s1 right??