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It’s been a while since evo took someroad cars to the Nürburgring, as we’reconscious that some readers will not, andwill never, have the same fascination

(sorry, Faszination ) with the place as most of theeditorial team here have. But this month, it hadto happen. Why? Because we created a test sochallenging for the new Lotus Exige S that itbordered on the cruel.

For starters we picked the toughest track-orientated rivals to compare it against…and then threw in a 1000-mile drive… andthen a challenging road route up in the Eifelmountains… and then to top it all a journeyinto (the Green) Hell.

The new V6-engined Exige would have toundertake the toughest test we could conjure

up because if it performed, and performed well,we could put aside some of the miserable talesemanating from Hethel at present and tell themost important story – that Lotus builds bloodygood performance cars.

If I’m honest, I’m a little surprised that Lotusagreed to allow the Exige S to compete in thistest at all – after all, some of the cars we werepitching it against cost twice as much – but,to its credit, it just threw evo the keys. Somemanufacturers (mentioning no names, Ferrari),simply refuse to allow their vehicles to competein a test against cars they do not perceive to berivals. Of course, this is their right, but often

the evo way is to purposely inject juxtapositioninto a group scenario. We do this not to see acar fail, but to reveal magic. And, this month,it happened. Read Jethro Bovingdon and JohnBarker’s fantastic words (and see Dean Smith’sglorious images) starting on p62.

Speaking of the Ring, I’m writing this froma hotel opposite the famous track (you’ll readabout why I’m here in a future issue). I’m notas familiar with the Nordschleife as some in

the evo office and I’ve always wondered if thnotion of it being a Mecca for fast cars – andnot just somewhere for local heroes in oldMantas to go for a thrash – was true. Well, mdoubts were completely blown out of the wawhen on my way to the hotel I saw two 458sfour GT3s, three GT-Rs, two six-cylinder Mand a pack of Brits in Renaultsports. When

Jethro rocked up thereearlier this month in the

C63 Black (one of the rarestperformance cars in theworld, remember) he prettymuch bumped into anotherC63 Black! If only wehad a Nürburgring inthe UK…

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