Lotus Europa S
Like the Lotus Elise, the Lotus Europa S is hand-built at Lotus’ factory in Hethel and features an extruded and bonded aluminum chassis, composite body panels and an advanced composite energy absorbing front crash structure. The end result of the engineers’ weight saving techniques is an incredible final kerb weight of just 995kg. More amazing is the weight of the chassis alone, which stands at just 68kg and offers the same strength and rigidity as both the Lotus Elise and Lotus Exige despite its door sills being some 4cm shorter. As with all Lotus cars, the Lotus Europa S also adopts a front anti-roll bar and fully independent sports suspension using unequal length wishbones and Bilstein mono-tube dampers with coaxial Eibach performance springs at each corner. The car’s mid-mounted 2.0L turbo engine is derived from General Motors’ Ecotec Z20LER powerplant, and in the Lotus develops a very healthy 197hp (147kW) at an unstressed 5,400rpm and peak torque of 272Nm (200lb-ft) at 5,000rpm. Though peak torque arrives at a relatively high rpm rate, 90% of this force is available from just 2,000rpm, giving the car plenty of oomph in the lower rev-range and adding to its flexibility around town. Drive is sent to the rear wheels via an aluminum six-speed manual gearbox and an open differential.
 
 
 
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