Extreme is a pretty good word to describe Lotus products of late. Even the road going cars like the Elise and Exige look extreme and have been taken to some pretty absurd levels of tune by their enthusiastic owners. Fortunately, the folks at Lotus aren’t just sitting around admiring their past achievements. No sir, they keep themselves busy building new variations.

It isn’t like the 2 Eleven isn’t one of the motoring world’s coolest track day weapons already, but the Lotus folks just had to make it even cooler. Add in a full cage, more ponies, sequential gearbox and other safety and suspension goodies and you have a race ready tool for the European SRO
GT4 Supersports class. I’m pretty sure a few might find their way to a NASA event somewhere on American soil this year too!

Read the press release for full details after the break
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