A bit more 'interweb' Esprit coverage

[Geeman]

This past weekend I showed my '84 Esprit Turbo on the Saturday event at the Kiawah Island Motoring Retreat here in SC, USA.  The car was well received and the new event was great.  A chap photographed the car and featured it on his website, so I thought I'd share.

Just another nice bit of publicity for the Esprit.

http://www.car-revs-daily.com/2016/04/16/1984-lotus-esprit-turbo/

 

 

[C8RKH]

Very nice!  

 

[The Pits]

[JustinB]

Looks fantastic, Gordon! How about a heads-up next time - I'd love to see it at an event like this!

[ChrisJ]

Looks great

[Andyww]

I thought it was just me who was the pedantic one

Actually I think the terms "Turbo Esprit" and "Esprit Turbo" are interchangeable. On my V5 it says "Esprit Turbo" although Lotus marketed it as "Turbo Esprit".

If Gordon had referred to it as an "S3 Turbo" that would have got me all agitated.

[ramjet]

A bit like tomato tomato?

[Geeman]

On ‎4‎/‎18‎/‎2016 at 14:02, JustinB said:

Looks fantastic, Gordon! How about a heads-up next time - I'd love to see it at an event like this!

JustinB, I only got the green light from the organisers to show my Esprit the week before.  I also had my Daimler SP250 entered and it took until the 11th hour to get a driver for the Esprit too.  The Kiawah Island Motoring Retreat is a new event, and this was its first big year.  There were smaller events a couple of years back.  One thing I notice showing the Turbo Esprit (@buddsy, you utter utter utter pedantic w**ker ) is that its nearly always blokes around their 30's and 40's that really stop to look at it and that's it.  I am surprised by the number of American car guys that say they have never seen one in real life.  But I guess they sold in such small numbers here.

[JustinB]

11 hours ago, Geeman said:

JustinB, I only got the green light from the organisers to show my Esprit the week before.  I also had my Daimler SP250 entered and it took until the 11th hour to get a driver for the Esprit too.  The Kiawah Island Motoring Retreat is a new event, and this was its first big year.  There were smaller events a couple of years back.  One thing I notice showing the Turbo Esprit (@buddsy, you utter utter utter pedantic w**ker ) is that its nearly always blokes around their 30's and 40's that really stop to look at it and that's it.  I am surprised by the number of American car guys that say they have never seen one in real life.  But I guess they sold in such small numbers here.

Small numbers, and also, I would think, concentrated in 'supercar' areas like South Florida and Southern California.