Classic Sports Car - Lotus Esprit Turbo on 2040-cars
Lombard, Illinois, United States
Body Type:Coupe
Engine:TURBO 4
Vehicle Title:Clear
Fuel Type:Gasoline
For Sale By:Private Seller
Number of Cylinders: TURBO 4
Model: Esprit
Trim: 2 door
Drive Type: rear wheel drive
Options: Sunroof, Leather Seats, CD Player
Mileage: 39,000
Power Options: Air Conditioning, Power Windows
Sub Model: Turbo Special Edition
Exterior Color: Red
Interior Color: Black Leather
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Rare 1983 Lotus Esprit Turbo Special Edition #45. This is 1 of only 50 "Special Edition" Turbo Esprit's manufactured in 1983 for Lotus Investors. The cars were numbered 00-49. We purchased #45 in 1991 and repainted a few years later. Has 39,000 original miles. Garage kept and pampered. Superb body and paint, no scratches, dents, or rust. High grade black leather interior (exclusive to the "Special Edition" package) is in very good to excellent condition. Has 2.2 liter engine, 4 cylinders, 5-speed manual transmission, 2x2 barrel carburettors, and Catalyst equipped. Engine runs very well and has fantastic acceleration and speed. Only issue is minor value cover oil leak. Original Stereo replaced with Alpine CD Shuffle.
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Fri, 31 Jan 2014If you're a serious fan of Formula One, you already know all about The Great Nosecone Conundrum of 2014. Those given to parsing each year's F1 regulations predicted the strong possibility of the so-called "anteater" noses as far back as early December 2013. Highly suggestive visual evidence first came after Caterham's crash test in early January, with further proof coming as soon as Williams showed a rendering of the FW36 challenger for this year's championship. That car earned a name that wasn't nearly so kind as "anteater."
Casual followers of the sport - or anyone who gets the feed from this site - probably don't know what's happening, except to wonder why the current year's F1 cars are led by appendages that would make Cyrano de Bergerac feel a whole lot better about himself.
The short answer to the question of ugsome F1 noses is "FIA regulations and safety." The reason there are various kinds of ugsome noses is simpler: engineers. The same boffins who have given us advances including carbon fiber monocoques, six-wheeled cars, double diffusers and Drag Reduction Systems are bred to do everything in their power to exploit every possible freedom in the regulations to make the cars they're building go faster - the caveat being that those advances have to work within the overall philosophy of the whole car.
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Tue, 18 Feb 2014Only a couple of years ago, it looked like the top tier of prototype endurance racing was in trouble. Peugeot shut down its program, leaving the LMP1 category all to Audi to dominate. Only six cars entered the Petit Le Mans in 2012, and the season was cut short. But the top class in the FIA World Endurance Championship has since blossomed. And it only looks poised to grow further.
Audi and Toyota will each be back on the grid this season, joined by Porsche. But the latest news has Lotus stepping up to the big leagues also. (Well, sorta: the German-run squad uses the Lotus name and colors, but has no more to do with the automaker than the Formula One team of the same name.)
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Thu, 23 May 2013The first thing you need to know is that this is the Lotus Exige S Roadster, unchanged from the Exige S even in price and officially the fastest convertible Lotus has ever made. The second thing you need to know is that if you live in the US, you won't be getting this car.
Now that that's out of the way, the lack of a roof, rear wing and front splitter help make it 22 pounds lighter than the coupe, coming in a 2,565 pounds, and the supercharged 3.5-liter V6 in this topless blossom discharges 345 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque. For historical comparison with a non-convertible, those numbers nearly match the 2004 Lotus Esprit V8 Final Run edition - which had twin Garrett turbochargers. Yet the Exige S gets from a stoplight to 60 miles per hour in 3.8 seconds, nearly a full second quicker than that Esprit. Fair play, though, the Esprit did weigh 3,040 pounds.
It will be fitted with a six-speed manual only, and cost 52,900 pounds ($79,667 US), 55,378 euros ($71,404 US) or 8,500,000 yen ($82,078 US), depending on where you live. Here in the US we'll be sticking with the track-only Exige V6 Cup and Cup R models. The press release below offers more on the fine points.