Lotus Exige S Roadster auto

摘要

Modern sports car buyers love automatic gearboxes. This much we know because so many successful makers now sell cars in south-east Asia, where such transmissions are popular, and because even Europeans have come to enjoy the self-shifting properties of the many dual-clutch automatic cars now on the market. So sure is Lotus that even its rawest and most focused model - the 1.2-tonne, 345bhp supercharged Exige - will attract more buyers with a self-shifter that it has built such a car, using a conventional Aisin six-speed automatic 'box but giving the driver exceptional control over gearchanging by using its own control software and providing an elegant pair of alloy shift paddles.