So I was driving on the highway yesterday and I was crusin along at about 75mph or so. Out of nowhere I heard this really loud engine almost like a high powered sport bike come flying up and passed me like I was going backwards. It was a new Lotus. That car is small, but man I had no idea how fast they were. I looked at the specs and they have only 180 hp or so, with 160 lb ft of torque, but they run 0-60mph in about 4.1 seconds and 0-100 in about 10.5 seconds. I was totally unaware that those cars were so fast. I guess the car is very light, because I cant think of any other way that a Lotus that is similar in size to our SLK's can be so much fast from 0-60 with over 100hp LESS than our cars... Can anyone else explain? And if you want to check out the cars click the link below and click the "models" tab on the top left. Then scroll down and look towards the bottom right to see all the specs.
http://www.lotuscars.com/exige_s220.html http://www.lotuscars.com/exige_s240.html <--- 0-60 in 4.0 sec and 0-100 in 10 sec flat!!