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Originally posted by stuartj
The Exige is the pretty Elise's ugly brother. Its a coupe. Different track, different engine, wider rubber, big rear ricer wing, no frills.
Theyve been around since about 2000- no JPN imitator yet, AFAIK.
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it may be un-pretty but the pic posted by "rtoms" sums up its existence very nicely. it's a track car... coupe is better, wider rubber is better, ricer wing is ricey, but so are the ones stuck onto serious track-oriented 911's... i thought most here were in agreement that 'no frills' is a good thing...
as for a japanese imitator... don't think they need to... they've had their own version of one for a while now too... at least since the 90's.... unless you've played gran turismo, you may not be aware of it, but it's a real company w/ a real car built in the same spirit as elise/exige. Tommy Kaira...
http://www.allcarpictures.com/pictures/tomita/tommy-kaira-zz/tomita-tommy-kaira-zz.jpg
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sdsefi.com/features/tommy6.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sdsefi.com/features/dec02tommy.htm&h=275&w=500&sz=31&tbnid=uDAsyvf4b3UPdM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=127&hl=en&ei=20ljRJr3JsbkadWqgLEI&sig2=1X4XM6xKov8dUtrEaqc2uw&start=5&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtommy%2Bkaira%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den% 26lr%3D%26sa%3DN
http://www.autodidactu.ro/cars/images/tommykaira/tommykairaa1.GIF