Earlier on, it was reported that the track-oriented Lotus 3-Eleven had completed a punishing shakedown session at the fabled Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit. Now, the Hethel-based manufacturer has released a video showing one of its most hardcore creations tackle said track. The test session was noted to be the car’s first public appearance ever since it was revealed back in June this year.
Throughout the test campaign, the Lotus 3-Eleven clocked over 2,000 km worth of test mileage – the results gathered were said to be satisfactory, to put it mildly. While the car’s actual lap time remains unknown for the time being, Lotus CEO, Jean-Marc Gales, has stated that “the 3-Eleven achieved one of the fastest ever lap times around the Nurburgring for any class of car and faster than many other supercars.”
With “Sport Auto” magazine’s lap configuration factored in, the Lotus 3-Eleven put in a theoretical lap time of seven minutes and six seconds – theoretical because it combined “the quickest sector times achieved during the fastest two laps” and not an all-out flying lap.
To recap, the Lotus 3-Eleven will be sold to customers in either Road or Race trims. The road-going model arrives with only one seat while a roof and doors are nowhere to be found – owners can option out a second seat for a passenger should they see the need for it. Power comes from a supercharged 3.5 litre V6 engine with 450 hp and 450 Nm of torque.
A six-speed manual is standard on the Road version while the Track variant is equipped with a sequential gearbox instead. Both models are said to sprint from rest to 100 km/h in three seconds flat while the top speed for the track-only variant is quoted at 280 km/h – the road-going model tops out at 290 km/h.
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Besides Sepang circuit, we too should create a circuit for the lazy Mat Rempit to blow off stim. Then, they don’t need to race in kesas killing innocent people like us.
Stupid Mat Rempit, all they know is illegal race, makan kenduri, kahwin empat and Malam Jumaat.
Race and accident and burden the hospital, nurses and doctors. Genuine people are not attended to because most of the doctors are attending the accident rempits.
The thing is, those mat rempits wont race in a circuit. They want the challenge and excitement of illegal race, going left and right avoiding death. A race circuit with rm10 entrance fee wont solve the problem. Its time the authorities place a law to put these rempits into the juvenile school.
Nothing can go wrong with proven Toyota engine. Smart choice by Lotus.
Toyota engine, (Aisin)Toyota transmission. What could possibly go wrong?
P1 should use Toyota engine/Aisin tranny too. I have no idea if P1 actually benefited anything from their Lotus ownership.
That’s supercharged engine cannot he compared with junk virus abanja faktis alja engines
I bet it faster than any Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini, Pagini or Koenigsegg track record.
To kcng. A street-legal production model Ferrari has lapped Nordschleife at 6:57, and a Pagani has lapped it in 6:47.
Damn you are funny. Where did you get that facts?
Please do some research before you make any comment.
Now internet can be accessed anywhere, anytime, we can’t be fooled by people like you. Here are some resources you can refer before you make any comment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nordschleife_lap_times#Full_lap
https://nurburgringlaptimes.com/lap-times-top-100/
The fastest street-legal Ferrari car at Nurbergring was recordedr at 7:25.21 in August 2008. It was the Ferrari Enzo. Fastest Pagani did it at 7:24.44 in the same year.