Specialization is for Insects.
Here’s a riddle: What’s cool? If you guessed the 2,000lb. 190 HP Lotus Exige… you’re right! This beast goes 0-60 in 4.7 seconds, corners like a go-cart and still manages 29MPG on the highway with its Toyota built engine.
Did I say Toyota? Yes, so pay attention. This means that purchasing an Exige is kind of like getting two cars in one. On one hand you get an official British Lotus supercar (think James Bond). On the other hand, you get your mom’s reliable Toyota.
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This is truly a fantastic video. Set in 1976 Paris, this has to be one of the most irresponsible, flagrant and illegal events in car driving history… and also absolutely one of the coolest!
The driver recklessly speeds around Paris one early morning for almost 9 minutes prompting Ralph Martin, of GQ Magazine, to say
“The car runs sixteen red lights, crosses the median to avoid a bus, nearly plows into a few pedestrians and more than a few pigeons, and drives around a garbage truck on the sidewalk before pulling up in front of Sacre Coeur, with its picture-perfect view of Paris spread out at sunrise. Then, in a sentimental touch, the driver gets out to meet his lady, his rendezvous.”
Why does Toyota torment me like this? They build the coolest, most beautiful concept car on the planet and then refuse to manufacture it. Someone should be shot!
Seriously, I’d take the very first one of these to roll off an assembly line if they would just build it. And I MEAN that. Jim Press (President of Toyota North America), I’ll have your check waiting the moment you hand me the keys!
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