Exige is a bit like Nissan’s Skyline in that a generation has grown up “driving” the car in video games and reading about it online before it got to the U.S. They know it shares the Elise’s 150-pound bonded extruded aluminum frame so it weighs just a tad more than 2000 pounds; they know it shares only the door panels and windshield surround, externally; they know that its Yamaha-built Toyota twin-cam VVTL-I four (a Lotus-tuned variation on the Celica GTS mill) makes 190 hp but only 138 lb-ft, so you have to rev it up beyond 6000 rpm to get to the wheel; and that if you’re doing it right it zips to 60 mph in less than 5.0 seconds.

Source: AutoWeek