Some cars leave a paper trail; the Lola T380 left a name, a year — 1975 — and a place in Lola Cars's list. What follows is what can be said with a source behind it. 2 were built.
The story
The Lola T380 is a 3-litre Group 5 sports prototype, designed, developed and built by British manufacturer and constructor Lola, for sports car racing, in 1975. Two were made. One was for Alain de Cadenet; the second was for International Race Services, an Italian team (HU2).
What is underneath
the output is 398 hp @ 9500 rpm. On the scales it comes to 715 kg. That is roughly 557 horsepower per tonne: hypercar territory, where the limiting factor is the tyre, not the engine. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Lola Cars line-up the Lola T380 has a clear place: it replaced the Lola T290; it handed the line to the Lola T390. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Nearby in the Lola Cars catalogue sit the Hill GH1 and the Lola B02/50.
Owning one today
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Lola T380 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.