Lotus Exige Sport 410 REVEALED – yes, it’s ANOTHER new Lotus

The Lotus Exige Sport 410 arrives as a new addition to Lotus’s Exige range, as a road-focussed take on the Exige Cup 430. Costs from £85,500.

We’ve had a raft of ‘Special Edition’ Lotus models in the last few months as Hethel works to keep revenue coming in ahead of big changes expected from Geely’s investment in Lotus, but this week’s new Lotus is actually a proper addition to the Exige range, superseding the Exige Sport 380.

The Lotus Exige Sport 410 – a car Lotus are calling the “Ultimate Road Drive” – takes the Exige Cup 430 as its starting point, including suspension and chassis, and gives it a re-tuned version of the 3.5 litre supercharged V6 with 410bhp – down 20bhp on the Cup 430 – and 3120lb/ft of torque which, despite the loss of 20 horses, give the new car the same 0-62mph time as the more powerful donor – 3.4 seconds.

Despite nicking its underpinnings from the Cup 430, the Sport 410 does get its own settings, with the adjustable Nitron dampers tweaked for road rather than track bias, and there’s revised aerodynamics delivering 150kg of downforce as well as a new clamshell front end (which arrives across the rest of the Exige range too).

Inside you get Lotus’s open-gate manual gearbox, Alcantara steering wheel and carbon fibre sports seats in Alcantara or leather with contrast stitching.

The Lotus Exige Sport 410 costs from £85,600, but the option list is extensive and expensive (exclusive paint £5k, Titanium Exhaust £5k, Carbon Fibre Roof £3k), so don’t be surprised if you’ve spent over £100k by the time you’ve finished ticking the boxes you ‘must’ have.