--Matte Grey with Black leather with Red contrasting stitching and
Black carpeting, 3.5 Liter Supercharged and Chargecooled V6 engine,
6-speed manual gearbox, Extremely rare Factory Lotus Motorsport
built. The Lotus Evora GTE was built in more
recent years to permit its racing variant to be able to race under
the GT3 and LM GTE regs. Based on the Evora floorplan but with an
extra track width of 110mm, the car was designed to have a lower
center of gravity, to be lighter and faster. This Evora
was completed after the Dany Bahar era of Lotus and when many of
these GTE?s were returned to Lotus by Bahar's appointed Brand
Ambassadors. Those Evora GTE's were developed under the leadership
of former Group Lotus CEO Dany Bahar and equipped with a X-trac 426
6-speed sequential gearbox. This true race-specification sequential
gearbox was designed for use through rear-wheel-drive, pairing
dog-engagement gears with a single clutch. These racing gearboxes
allowed for full-throttle clutchless flat shifting and precise
automatic rev-matching (throttle blipping) on downshifts. Having
driven racing cars with the X-Trac sequential gearbox, they are in
no way conducive to street use!!! Several road going
GTE's destined for China were equipped with the Lotus IPS automatic
gearbox and some with the standard 6-speed manual
gearbox. The brand ambassador examples were not; they
were more so Evora GTE race cars outfitted for street
use. 20 official factory road cars were manufactured by
Lotus. The vehicle was originally conceived during the Dany Bahar
era as a race-homologation special. It generated over 114 initial
orders from the Chinese market alone. The ambitious project was
abruptly halted when Dany Bahar was dismissed and the company
changed strategy. Some say strategy, some say embezzlement,
whatever the case, the project was stopped midstream. In
2017, 10 cars were assembled with the help of Lotus Racing Roger
Bennington Stratton Motor Company using both the Returned Brand
Ambassador GTE's as well as the Overstock Cars acquired the
remaining official Evora GT race program components and chassis
directly from Lotus and built a limited series of hand-built cars
(widely documented as a small batch of road-registered track
specials) was using genuine GTE parts. They featured the
aggressive, widebody carbon-fiber styling identical to the factory
Evora GTE homologation specials. These-this Evora GT-GTE's
is powered by the 3.5 litre supercharged V6 engine shared by the
other Evora and Exige variants but having been re-worked and tuned
by Swindon Race Engines. This process involves major engine
strengthening, forged pistons, con rods, higher lift camshafts and
a specially re-worked exhaust system making this a very lively
engine with an instant throttle response, producing an astonishing
438hp. In this specification it will accelerate from a standing
start to 60mph in an astonishing 4 seconds. The throttle response
is immediate and impressive. Combine this with a kerb weight of
just 2,815 lbs, this Evora GTE not only follows Colin Chapmans
motto Simplify, then add lightness, it is not only lightweight,
it's also extremely powerful. Not only powerful, its
suspension, chassis and braking systems will allow for the ultimate
in sportscar spirited driving for both road as well as track use.
The power to the road is transferred to the though a 6-speed manual
gearbox. Loaded with quite a bit of weight-saving carbon fiber
(inside and out) and with 2+0 seating configuration the interior is
nicely furnished. Cosmetically it looks spectacular with its
widebody aerodynamic appearance. We are proud to
offer what is a truly individual and rare the Lotus performance
road car that will never be produced again. These Evora GTE road
cars already have a place in British motoring history.
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