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Lotus Exige S
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Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.
Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (2) ↓
Published calls on this car
1 prediction on this model is live and unresolved, published before the hammer and graded against it afterwards.
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 4,583 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
One of the rarest cars in this comparison with an estimated 90 Australian deliveries, and values climbed from 2016 to the 2022 peak, unlike most depreciating supercars of the era. The Toyota-sourced supercharged V6 gives genuine reliability underneath the lightweight chassis.
The market is extremely thin at 65 days on market, so a sale can take real patience even at fair money. Lotus-specific ancillaries and body panels are scarce and often need to be sourced internationally at a premium.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
A 2013 Exige S coupe made $116,600 at Bulimba in December 2022 and a 2014 Exige S Roadster made $93,500 at Perth in January 2022. Adjusted to the 55,000 kilometres this record expects, at its own 2.4 per cent per 10,000, the coupe implies $107,536 and the Roadster $92,373. The carried $95,000 sat between them, nearer the Roadster, and did not move then.
Read the rest of the evidence notes (5 more)
The specification line reads 13,874 kilometres. The description says an AIM digital dashboard replaced the factory instrument at roughly 6,000 kilometres, so the car had covered about 19,874. This record uses 19,874. It is a six thousand kilometre difference on a car whose whole appeal is delivery-level distance, and it is stated in the body text of the lot while the headline figure carries the smaller number. Anything reading this model off aggregated specification fields is reading it wrong.
The Bulimba coupe carries a TVS 1900 Charge Cool supercharger upgrade, Nitron three-way dampers and a lightweight flywheel, and it made 25 per cent more than the standard-engine Roadster. Distance explains most of that gap and body style may explain some of the rest, but nothing here suggests the upgrades were discounted. That is now the pattern across four records in this library - the Escort, the AE86, the RX-3 and this - where a well-executed modification has not cost the seller money.
Separate coupe from Roadster. There is one of each. The Series 3 Roadster is arguably the rarer car and it is the cheaper result, but at one lot apiece that is an observation and not a discount.
And nothing Australian has traded since, on a model this record already describes as extremely thin at 65 days on market with about eight sales a year. The value line runs flat from there. SOURCING: aggregator-surfaced auction results, not confirmed against the auction house, the weakest evidence grade in this library.
Both results behind the value are from 2022 and it was set against them unindexed, before this library fitted a market index at all. The European-performance series, fitted on 455 sales, has that segment sixteen per cent lower in 2026 than in 2022. Carried to 55,000 kilometres on the current distance curve and indexed to 2026, the coupe implies $87,900 and the Roadster $79,600, and $84,000 is their mean. No Australian Exige S has traded since 2022 to test it, so the next one that does is the check on this move, and on whether the segment index describes a car this rare.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Lotus Exige S is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Lotus Exige S, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.