Lotus 3-Eleven review

Lotus’s fastest ever production car and, perhaps more pertinently, its first all-new car since the Exige V6 in 2012. It’s not strictly all-new though, as underneath it has much in common with that Exige, but with no roof and doors it is at least conforming to the much-mentioned ‘add lightness’ stereotype. 

It’s a light car, made lighter still, built on the Exige’s bonded aluminium platform and using its supercharged V6. Two versions are available: Road and Race, and you can probably guess the differences. Less weight and equipment, more power and downforce. Also a racing sequential gearbox to justify the serious step-up in price from £82,500 to £116,500.