It’s pretty hard on tyres and brakes, though, so maintaining top-level pace for more than five laps without a break would be tough. It handles in such a flat, immediate way that on track you can easily forget it’s so heavy, and it accelerates like a missile. Just look at all the cars this 2.3-tonne SUV beat it’s staggering to contemplate. You might not believe this, but it was probably easier getting a sports-car-level lap time out of the Urus on the day than to make the Aventador SVJ lap faster than the lesser Huracán Performante had. But that’s not the right word in this case.
If that hadn’t made practical sense, we might have just taken it to Millbrook, where we test our ‘normal’ metal. We tested the monstrous Urus on the same day as the Aventador SVJ. Road test date 3.7.19 Test number 5429 Peak power 641bhp at 6000rpm Kerb weight 2285kg Tyres Pirelli P Zero Corsa 0-60mph 3.3sec 0-100mph 7.8sec Quarter mile 11.6sec at 120.8mph And it took some setting: the Exige is a physical drive, with unassisted steering and lots of carried cornering speed, and has a chassis and grip level that'll gobble up every bit of pace that the powertrain can throw at it. It's an marker that has stood for approaching a decade, and which we now know won't be beaten by any other Exige, because production of the car has now ended. This Exige came on Pirelli P Zero Corsa rubber, ready to lay down a marker.
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The car's power output has risen since, of course (although torque hasn't, being pegged by the capacity of Lotus's manual gearbox) - but we haven't always tested the quickest variants of this car, on the most aggressive track tyres. We've road tested track-intended versions of both the Lotus Elise and the Lotus Exige since but when we first strapped our timing gear to a V6-engined, 'S3' Exige S back in 2013, it went quicker than any we've tested subsequently. Road test date 3.4.13 Test number 5108 Peak power 345bhp at 7000rpm Kerb weight 1200kg Tyres Pirelli P Zero Corsa 0-60mph 4.1sec 0-100mph 9.6sec Quarter mile 13.0sec Road test date 23.9.15 Test number 5235 Peak power 380bhp at 7400rpm Kerb weight 1425kg Tyres Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 0-60mph 4.6sec 0-100mph 10.0sec Quarter mile 12.9sec at 113.9mph Road test date 23.5.18 Test number 5372 Peak power 503bhp at 6000rpm Kerb weight 1720kg Tyres Pirelli P Zero 0-60mph 3.7sec 0-100mph 8.3sec Quarter mile 12.1sec at 120.5mph
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