From the Archive: 2007 extreme sports car comparison:
—are not production cars and as such do not meet the same safety or emissions standards as the other three. Registering them for public roads varies, depending on which state you live in, and you'll have to do some assembly yourself or hire someone. We tested these cars alongside the production cars, but we didn't include them in the voting. Since they're not saddled with the weight of airbags and other EPA legalities, it simply would not be fair.
In S form, the Exige's Toyota-sourced 1.8-liter inline-four engine is supercharged by a Roots-type blower to jack up horsepower to 220 at 8000 rpm, a handy increase over the naturally aspirated model's 190. More significant is the increase in available midrange response. The base car was fairly flaccid at lower revs, and the S is easier to drive at less than screaming engine speeds.Cacophonous engine sounds, restrictive ingress, primitive creature comforts.
With performance results that speak of 0 to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds and the standing quarter-mile in 12.8 seconds at 107 mph, the Exige S is fast in anyone's book, but it lacked muscle in this group. Its real forte, however, is its almost peerless chassis dynamics on the track. Tech director Larry Webster described the car's steering as"the way steering is meant to be." Other logbook entries said that although refinement was in short supply the feedback knob was set at 11.
Initial turn-in is light, but the wheel loads up as cornering forces build, and it takes a fair bit of muscle to point the car once it's at maximum lateral acceleration. The other controls are equally direct. Throttle response is quick and loud, with engine noises that vary from downright rude combinations of chainsaw fury and baffle-plate buzz to sheer cacophonous tumult. Even at cruising speed, the racket from the back is only somewhat subdued, and it's never a good sound.
The addition of a supercharger to the Exige has completely blanked out all rearward vision immediately behind the driver, since the air-to-air intercooler inhabits the space behind the Exige's rear window. But the visibility provided by the two side mirrors is pretty good, and you soon get used to a center mirror that now mainly blocks some of the view ahead.
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