【SH译起看车】极端！它们堪称20世纪的“轻量化”典范

原标题：Two Turn Of The Century Lightweights

原作者：Chaydon Ford

With regulations for both safety and emissions coming thick and fast, we won’t ever see cars like the Renault Sport Spider or Lotus 340R produced by major manufacturers again. These sort of cars serve no concessions to modern conveniences; their existence is solely for driving enjoyment.

随着安全和排放法规的不断出台，我们再也不会看到像雷诺Sport Spider或路特斯340R这样的汽车了（至少不会被量产）。这类汽车与现在的代步车没有任何共性;他们的存在只是为了乐趣。

Prior to January’s Sunday Scramble at Bicester Heritage, I’d only ever seen a 340R out in the wild once (that was over a decade ago, on a summer afternoon) and I’d never seen a Spider in person. So while most people flocked to the supercars nearby, I was instantly drawn to this diminutive pair.

在一月份 January’s Sunday Scramble活动之前，我只在路上见过一次340R(那是十多年前的一个夏天的下午)，我从来没有亲眼见过雷诺Spider。所以当大多数人涌向附近的超级跑车时，我立刻被这对小跑车吸引住了。

The Renault Sport Spider was created out of the French automaker’s desire to further promote its ability to produce sporting, fun cars. Designed as both a road car and for a one-make racing series, only 1,800 Spiders were produced over its four-year manufacturing run from 1996 to 1999.

当年，法国汽车制造商怀着制造有驾驶乐趣又极具操纵感的初衷造出了雷诺Sport Spider。该车的定位既是公路跑车，也是一款单一车型的赛车。从1996年到1999年的四年生产过程中，Spider只生产了1800辆。

If you were in a left-hand drive country, you could order the car sans windscreen, but all the right-hand drive cars came fitted with one as standard.

如果你在一个靠左驾驶的国家，你可以订购无挡风玻璃的款式，但所有右驾的车型都标配了挡风玻璃。

Sharing the F7R motor with the Renault Clio Williams, the 150hp power output may seem meagre, but an aluminium chassis and composite panels meant a weight of 853kg (1,880lb) and therefore a strong power-to-weight ratio.

该车与雷诺Clio Williams共享F7R发动机，150马力的功率输出可能看起来微不足道，但铝制底盘和复合面板意味着Spider只有853公斤(1880磅)的重量，因此具有强大的功率重量比。

While the Lotus 340R and Renault Sport Spider were never on sale at the same time, the same ethos was applied to both.

虽然340R和雷诺Sports Spider从未同时出售，但这两者具有相同的气质。

The Lotus was released in 2000, with the limited run of 340 cars all snapped up before release. Taking the already lithe, 725kg (1,598lb) Exige Series 1 and removing a large portion the bodywork netted a revised weight of just 675kg (1,488lb). Fibreglass panels barely clothed the extruded and bonded aluminium chassis, with no doors or roof to speak of.

340R于2000年发布，限量340辆车在发布前全部被抢购一空。重达725公斤(1598磅)的Exige Series 1在减重后的净重仅为675公斤(1488磅)。玻璃纤维板勉强覆盖了挤压和粘合铝底盘，这台车没有车顶，也没有传统意义的“门”。

The optional performance pack bumped power up to 190hp, which while short of the target 340hp-per-tonne goal still provided stout performance.

可选的性能包将功率提升到190马力，虽然没有达到所谓每吨340马力的目标，但对340R来说，足够了。

Lotus has continued to make limited-run cars in a similar vein to the 340R with the 2-Eleven and 3-Eleven, but neither of these were as raw and focused as the original.

路特斯后来推出了340R的继任者，同样的轻量化怪物：2-ELEVEN 和3-ELEVEN，但这两款车都不像原来的那样原始和极端。

Both cars are very cool in their own right, but I’m interested to know which one you would take home given the chance, and why?

两款车从各自的初衷而言都极具特点，但我更想知道你会选择哪一台，并且，为什么？