Top Gear’s guide to: Lotus

Revered East Anglia-based builder of hardcore lightweights still basically true to the ethos by which Colin Chapman originally made them famous.

9/10

Lotus

Exige

£57,620 – £103,140

The Exige is a rarity, in the fact it’s a car that’s as happy on the track as it is on the road

8/10

Lotus

£73,000 – £88,320

A far more convincing rival to the Cayman and 911. Pricier as well, though.

8/10

Lotus

£39,720 – £47,820

If the Elise were music, it would be blues. Raw, emotional, stripped back and pared-down.