Esprit Picture & Video Thread

[oneshot]

And another

[Advantage]

Spotted a familiar sight enjoying the Goodwood dust yesterday. Good to see it out and about.

[Andyww]

That looks exactly the same as when the headlining disintegrates!

[MPx]

...and I got the same look when I trailered the car backwards and all of the "foam" in the B-pillar cavity disintegrated and blew into the car.

[Lotusfab]

Supercar  Sunday at Brooklands today. Two Esprits invited into the paddock! Unheard of - at last recognition for a very under rated cars!

[Barrykearley]

Simply love these warm light summer nights

[Fridge]

@Lotusfab those Esprits look tiny against those "big" Alfa Romeos!

[silverfrost]

Are those Alfas the little 2 seaters they built that are in competition with the elise ?    We all know the Esprit is super low,  but they even look skinny compaired to the Alfas too !    and esprits are 6 1/2 foot wide lol !

[Giniw]

15 hours ago, Lotusfab said:

Unheard of - at last recognition for a very under rated cars!

Lotus PR for the incoming announcements? (130, etc?)

[GTK]

13 hours ago, Fridge said:

@Lotusfab those Esprits look tiny against those "big" Alfa Romeos!

Ironically the 4C is almost identical to the the Esprit in width. Ok the Alfa is 7cm taller give or take, but the Esprit is 20cm longer.

Esprit [S2] Width - 186cm,  4C Width - 186.4cm

Esprit [S2] Length - 419cm, 4C Length - 398cm

[Escape]

Those Alfa's are 8C, length 438.1cm, width 189.4cm and height 134.1, so a bit bigger and much higher than the Esprits.

Definitely good company!

[Giniw]

(and they didn't allow the Porsche in apparently! )

[GTK]

18 hours ago, Escape said:

Those Alfa's are 8C...

[oneshot]

Had a bit of company yesterday

[C8RKH]

48 minutes ago, oneshot said:

Had a bit of company yesterday

I bet that was the only place the Aston was in front of you lol ..

[oneshot]

Let's just say that the Aston doesn't fair very well in comparison.

[Giniw]

from http://www.lotuselan.net/a-thing-of-beauty

 

[BC007]

On 14/07/2019 at 21:09, Lotusfab said:

Supercar  Sunday at Brooklands today. Two Esprits invited into the paddock! Unheard of - at last recognition for a very under rated cars!

 

Hi Fabian,

You might find this interesting. It's an approved supercar list from the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed.  The Esprit and Evora S are included but it's some of  the Porsche models such as the 928 that are excluded which is surprising.

Brendan

2013-fos-approved-supercar-list-final.pdf

[Lotusfab]

Hi Brendan,

That's very interesting and very surprising, thanks for the info! 

[MPx]

Amazingly 4 g-cars at the Sherborne Castle show today...

[Esprit85]

Yes, it’s also got images in The National Motoring Archive so it’s been well documented and is also just as fresh as when it left Hethel all those years ago. I look a lot younger behind the wheel in the Jeremy Walton book!
By the way, the car was photographed at the old Croydon airport for the Jeremy Walton book before it was restored. Best to all, Peter Boita.

[ChrisJ]

Only one car worth looking at in the company car park today

[Chillidoggy]

A guy who has 54 cars  sent me this one from a local meeting. He has a turbo Esprit, but the clutch failed as he was backing it out of the garage for the meet.

 

[Giniw]

Wow, and I see someone brought an excavator too!

[Chris Onelevenr]

15 hours ago, Chillidoggy said:

A guy who has 54 cars  sent me this one from a local meeting. He has a turbo Esprit, but the clutch failed as he was backing it out of the garage for the meet.

 

That looks like Nautilus Blue. My GT3 is one of 2 in that colour. Are there many other Esprits around in Nautilus Blue?