{"id":58744,"date":"2020-12-31T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=58744"},"modified":"2021-01-11T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:22:23","slug":"45-years-of-lotus-esprit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/45-years-of-lotus-esprit\/","title":{"rendered":"45 Years of Lotus Esprit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An English wedge took center stage at the 1975 Paris Motor Show. This wedge had wheels and came from a renowned British sports car builder. Starting with 150 hp, the power increased over time up to 354 hp in the last year of production. Unfortunately, the model remained without a true successor. Italdesign, the design house founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro, presented the basic shape of the Esprit as early as 1972, but it took another three years before it was ready for series production. 1975 – the BIC single-blade razor was invented, Microsoft was founded and the first microcomputers were built, David Beckham was born and, more importantly for car fans, the Lotus Esprit finally saw the light of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esprit as a Bond vehicle<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Whether these experiences changed the world is questionable, but it is undisputed that the Esprit became an automotive legend during its construction until 2003. The appearance in the film “James Bond 007 – The Spy Who Loved Me”, where the Lotus Esprit was transformed into a submarine, probably played a significant role in this. The wedge-shaped sports car was given this role as a movie car when a Lotus developer parked an Esprit without logos and lettering in front of the film company’s production office. There, the car was examined with interest and eventually tracked down to the Lotus headquarters to find out which vehicle it was and whether it could be obtained for the upcoming Bond film. The Esprit also reappeared in a more recent version in the follow-up film “For Your Eyes Only”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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