The Lotus 340R is a car from Lotus, built from 2000, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Under the bonnet: 1.8 . Russell Carr drew it.
What is underneath
Power comes from 1.8 . It weighs 701 kg. It shifts through a 5 speed Rover PG1 manual. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Lotus 2-Eleven; assembly was at Hethel, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Hyundai Santa Fe, the Honda S2000, the Honda Fit — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Lotus catalogue sit the Lotus 100T and the Lotus 101.