We don’t test a lot of exotic cars here at Cars.com. Sure, we drive them at certain events, admire them from afar, but we know the mass consumer is far more interested in mainstream vehicles. The extremely limited, really-only-useful-on-a-track Lotus Exige, probably isn’t getting checked for 5-year cost of ownership too often. It’s likely something you’d see on Top Gear. But the Exige is what greeted us on a recent trip to the track to test some of the sportiest new cars for 2008. The Exige was so unique it forced our erstwhile cameraman and multimedia coordinator Eric Rossi in front of the lens to tell us about the tiny track star.