The Lotus Esprit Turbo is a bargain supercar on the market today. You can’t touch a Lamborghini or Ferrari for the same price and while the Lotus does use a simple 4-cylinder engine for motivation, its turbo equalizes the performance gap and 99% of the people on the road aren’t going to know anyway….and frankly […]
The Peter Stevens (of McLaren F1 fame) designed 4th generation Lotus Esprit was visually similar to Giorgetto Giugiaro’s polygonal “folded paper” design that lasted for the first three generations with only small changes. The big improvement to the third generation car came from the use of vacuum assisted resin injection (VARI) and kevlar reinforcement to […]
Introduced by Pontiac in 1970 and made famous by Burt Reynolds and James Garner – the 2nd generation Firebird is a poor man’s classic today. The Bandit drove one around Jackie Gleason’s bumbling southern accented highway patrolman in Smokey and the Bandit, and Jim Rockford did all manner of j-turns, (aka the Rockford turn) jumps […]
The Lotus Esprit (es-spree) enjoyed a remarkably long life with only minor changes in its 28 year lifespan and over 10,000 examples built from 1976-2004. In 1979 Lotus released a special edition – the John Player Special to commemorate its 1978 F1 world championship winning car – really just a stickers package – but cool […]