The Dallara Stradale Is The Pricey, Limited-Production Track Day Nemesis Of The Lotus 3-Eleven

Dallara's first road-legal car is built with all the engineering firm's expertise in carbonfibre and racing chassis, but although it sounds fast as hell, it's not cheap... or practical
The Dallara Stradale Is The Pricey, Limited-Production Track Day Nemesis Of The Lotus 3-Eleven

Chassis maker Dallara has released its first road car, and this is it. Well done if you’ve already guessed that the Stradale is no everyday shopping car. It’s road-legal, but not exactly what you’d call practical. Or cheap: it’s about £140,000 plus VAT, registration and extra taxes.

At present it’s left-hand drive only. There are no doors. Don’t be silly; that would ruin the cooling system design, which sees enclosed channels running within the bodywork from the nose to the mid-mounted 2.3-litre turbocharged Ford EcoBoost engine.

The Dallara Stradale Is The Pricey, Limited-Production Track Day Nemesis Of The Lotus 3-Eleven

There’s no power steering ‘in the interests of purity.’ There’s no windscreen. As standard you get a minimal and fairly useless wind deflector ahead of each occupant, sort of like screens on motorbike fairings. If you want a more traditional bug barrier then you’ll be relieved of £14,500 or so. We’re not kidding.

You can also have a roof for just under £7000 and two top-hinged sort-of-but-not-really doors for almost the same price. All plus VAT.

The Dallara Stradale Is The Pricey, Limited-Production Track Day Nemesis Of The Lotus 3-Eleven

You don’t get air-con, heated seats, a stereo, sat-nav or even Bluetooth. Because you need none of those things. What you do get is a 400bhp, 855kg track-focused monster with Dallara pedigree and as much as 820kg of aero downforce. Fast? You bet your life it is.

Those without a wish to be killed will welcome the standard traction control, but you don’t get track-spec tyres or adjustable dampers for your money. They’re optional. There is, however, a six-speed manual gearbox (huzzah!) with plans in the pipeline for a single-clutch automated manual option.

The Dallara Stradale Is The Pricey, Limited-Production Track Day Nemesis Of The Lotus 3-Eleven

With the Lotus 3-Eleven priced at less than half of what a mildly-optioned Dallara Stradale will cost, this is a track attacker aimed squarely at people with plenty of money to burn. The first year’s production – about 120 cars – have already been sold, says Dallara.

How many of those are genuine buyers and how many are speculators trying to make a fast buck on an early production slot, we’ll have to wait and see.

Comments

MikeTheMiata (MiataSquad) (MarinerSquad)

Track day bro

11/16/2017 - 15:03 |
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Where are are you going bro??

Track day bro

11/17/2017 - 01:15 |
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KPS Lucky - Inactive

It looks as if a Aston Martin Vantage and a Lotus 3-Eleven had a love child. With a bit of Ferrari heritage thrown into the mix.

11/16/2017 - 15:20 |
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I agree. I think it is the front of a Ferrari 488, the body of a lotus 3-eleven, with the rear of a DB11 in my opinion

11/16/2017 - 15:30 |
8 | 0

Front looks kinda like a Vette

11/16/2017 - 15:58 |
5 | 0

For me that’s a great! :)

11/16/2017 - 17:05 |
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Anonymous

Wait, £14.5k for a windscreen? Does it have gold flake in it? Or a platinum frame?

11/16/2017 - 15:29 |
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Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

That must be the most extreme EA-like attitude I’ve ever seen from a company

11/16/2017 - 19:52 |
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Anonymous

If EA made a car, you have to pay more for the bits you might actually want

11/16/2017 - 15:37 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

The car will cost about $50,000. Plus some dlc, expansions packs, and extra contect it be cost $500,000. Total of $550,000. Now pay you broke noob

11/17/2017 - 01:21 |
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Constantine C.K.

This is one of the cars that will hit history books, but, will be extremelly limited and impractical.
Like the Caterham R500 or KTM X-Bow..

11/16/2017 - 17:41 |
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Freddie Skeates

I mean, the 2.3 ecoboost is great and all, but for £140k couldn’t they’ve gone with something a bit more… Exotic?

11/16/2017 - 19:46 |
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Anonymous

Can’t be the only one who sees it

11/16/2017 - 19:49 |
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HAYABUSA

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

What car is that ?

11/16/2017 - 20:28 |
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LukeyWolf

That looks very close to the 488 GTB

11/16/2017 - 20:04 |
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HAYABUSA

Looks really good doe

11/16/2017 - 20:29 |
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Anonymous

Henessey anyone?

11/16/2017 - 20:36 |
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Caro

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

honestly this is more impressive than henessey, this is an actual beast that’s being made by a much more trusted manufacturer that’s known for making chassis for open wheel cars.

It’s way cooler to be able to say “My car is made by the same people who make Indycar chassis” than “My car is made by some shady guy who doesn’t treat customer cars properly”

11/17/2017 - 23:05 |
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