Lotus boasts an impressive motor racing legacy with Team Lotus securing seven Formula One World Championships. This legacy of extraordinary engineering prowess has filtered down through the decades into the marque’s rewarding road-going sports cars, which offer drivers raw and unfettered driving pleasure through a combination of low weight and precise handling.
Launched at the 1975 Paris Motor show, the Lotus Esprit is a striking mid-engine two-seater sportscar with a wedge-shaped fiberglass body over a steel backbone chassis and is powered by the 160bhp Lotus designed and manufactured all aluminium 2.0-litre, 16-valve, 4-cylinder engine and a five-speed transmission, all rounded off with distinctive Wolfrace alloy wheels. It weighs less than 1000kg in line with Colin Chapmans weight saving philosophy, handles superbly and is very rare with only 864 made
The Lotus Esprit S1 has a special place in the collector car world by combining radical styling by Giugiaro, innovative lightweight engineering, and pop-culture fame during its iconic appearance in the “submarine” scene in James Bond's The Spy Who Loved Me
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