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The newest addition to the KRB family wasn’t a quattro-underpinned Audi capable of frying all four tyres at the same time, but a 1984 Tiga C2 Prototype race car bestowed with the looks of a Lotus Esprit on steroids. It’s an interesting story too, beginning with a Swedish Tiga employee purchasing a crashed chassis and rebuilding the car with lightweight Lotus silhouette-style body panels, and a peaky NASCAR V8, and ending in a pile of parts after it was sold in 2008.

Kai used the 2013 Scandinavian summer racing season to test and develop the car, before making a full assault on the GT1 class of the Norwegian GT Championship in 2014. Like the Audi, the Lotus is being used for Gatebil events, where it runs in the Extreme Time Attack class. Other outings like a trackday run at Spa in 2017 resulting in a leisure 2:30 lap time indicate the raw potential.

‘Extreme’ is a word that fits nicely, especially when you start delving below its lightweight fibreglass skin. Contrary to the KRB Audi, which ran a VW-Audi gasoline/diesel mashup engine, this "Lotus" now is pure Audi powered, a 4.2 litre V8 used in the A6 and A8 (not the later FSI variant that came with the RS4), aspirated with rather large Comp turbos and bolted to the updated Group-C drivetrain. In the builders words it has "lazy" 850 hp, which may be 200+ less then the S1 behemoth, but due to the much better chassis and better power delivery result in a whole new level of performance. It is like Gran Turismo, buy an old '80s wedge racer and head straight for the Stage 3 Turbo kit .

"Wild silhouette styling from a bygone era wrapped over a Group C spaceframe chassis and mated with a modern, high tech twin turbo engine. Does it get any better? No, I don’t think so."

- Brad Lord (of Speedhunters) -