Please note that the photographs were provided by the seller Highlights Full specialist service history Low mileage Rare and desirable early model Recent suspension overhaul Advisory-free MOT Overview Less is more has always been the driving force when it comes to Lotus.

It's a concept that has been the very ethos behind the company's success, harking back to Colin Chapman's “simplify, then add lightness” approach to building sports cars.

And it's proven to be a highly successful notion.

It's all well and good having a certain ideology to adhere to but it still has to be implemented for it to work and the Exige is a perfect distillation of that philosophy.

Taking everything learnt from the hugely popular and successful Elise, Lotus poured that knowledge and experience into its follow up,the more track-focused Exige, producing a worthy successor to one of its most revered models.

Introduced in 2000, the Exige looked like a proper race car from the get go.

The thing looked fast sta...