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Lotus Exige Stealth.

Damn this car looks great in Matte paint scheme and it's apparently soft to the touch and very resistant to chipping and peeling! Pretty awesome!

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Originally Posted by Autoblog

Lotus has unveiled the latest special edition of its maximum performance, minimum everything else Exige today at the Tokyo Motor Show. We took a moment to check out the Exige Stealth (known as the Scura in Europe) on the show floor and managed to curry some time with Lotus vehicle development director Roger Becker.

The new model gains a set of comely forged alloy wheels, but the big news with the car is the unique paint. We asked Becker about the Stealth and its special finish, and as it turns out, this is more than just a basic matte paint. Lotus has been experimenting for several years with matte finishes but was never satisfied with the results. The problem – as anyone who has ever done body repairs and worked on primer-finished cars can tell you – is that matte surfaces really show marks and stone chips. Lotus wanted something more durable before putting the car into production.

To create the Exige seen here, the entire car has to be sprayed in the base gloss coat seen on the central stripes. The stripe area was then masked off and the rest of the body abraded in order to get a surface that the matte paint will grip to. Finally, a newly formulated rubberized matte paint is applied. When you touch the car, the surface actually feels soft, and according to Becker, it is four- to five-times more resistant to marking and peeling than other finishes.

Just 35 examples are planned, so get your deposit in now.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog....-live_-(5).jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog....-live_-(3).jpg

Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/21/l...th-tokyo-2009/

More Hi-Res Photos: http://www.autoblog.com/photos/tokyo...e-stealth/low/

I want to touch it...

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Originally Posted by bagel.tech (Post 6645319)

I want to touch it...

So its just rubber on it right?

Im assuming it feels like those TPS Rubber coated hockey sticks they made a few years back.

Wow! coolest Elise yet! :D

^^^^^ its an exige -_-

damn thats hot

so does it feel like the bottom of a Harmony remote?

damn thats nice i wanna touch it

i suddenly have a rubber fetish...

i wonder if it's the satin rubber finish they got in the interior for VW's and Audis

wow that is nice! amazing

nice! kinda looks like a rubber toy car...

Maybe one day someone will invent rubber/silicone protection for your cars, just like those silicone stuff for cell phones

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Originally Posted by RE-Jo (Post 6646137)

Maybe one day someone will invent rubber/silicone protection for your cars, just like those silicone stuff for cell phones

Like a clear bra?

but even more durable i would think?

oh wow!
even more reason to save up for an exige.. but by that time they'll be something better and more expensive.

what you guys think of the new spoiler? i kind of prefer the previous one that was center stacked.

that's a sick car. i want those wheels. would look good on my dark grey car.

primer will come back as a new fad

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Originally Posted by LowTEC (Post 6647230)

primer will come back as a new fad

nah primer was so last year... it's all about rubber now apparently :thumbsup: