2000 Lotus Esprit V8 *signed Documentation Of *1 Of 1* No Reserve on 2040-cars
Mount Zion, Illinois, United States
Body Type:Coupe
Engine:3.5L 3506CC V8 GAS DOHC Turbocharged
Vehicle Title:Clear
Fuel Type:GAS
For Sale By:Private Seller
Interior Color: Red wing/ leather with red piping
Make: Lotus
Number of Cylinders: 8
Model: Esprit
Trim: V8 Coupe 2-Door
Drive Type: RWD
Mileage: 42,898
Exterior Color: Silver
You have a chance to own this well documented 2000 Lotus Esprit v8 with signed documents from lotus archivist "Andy Graham" that states that this is the only 2000 silver with red interior. Read the signed documents for all details in pictures below. Also since this is 1of1 the picture in the 2000 sales brochure should be my car. All maintenance and upgraded had been performed by Lamborghini Chicago. Have all receipts showing what had been done and when. I took care of this car planning to keep this rare car but got divorced last Wednesday and have to sell it. So starting bid is $32,000 with NO RESERVE. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Ph# 217-791-1477. Happy bidding and good luck...
Previous owner: 6 month old front tires
High flow cats
Stainless steel straight pipe exhaust
K&N Filters
Alpine cd player with ipod adapter
2002 Factory wheels
3M clear bra
I Purchased the car in Feb. 2012 with approximately 35,000 miles
April 2012 36,000 miles:
- "C" service was done...which include:
Timing belts
auxiliary belt
spark plugs
fuel filter
all fluids were replaced
-Passenger side turbo actuator
-Windshield wiper
-Both axle seals
-Both turbos (rebuilt)
-Passenger side spark plug wires
August 2012 approx. 40,000 miles
-Stage 3 "red race" chip from P.U.K.
-Dual HKS blow off valves
December 2012 approx. 42,000 miles
-Both front shocks and struts
-Oil change
-Red top OPTIMA battery
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Lotus F1 confirms Grosjean, Maldonado for 2015
Wed, 19 Nov 2014With the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix now just ten days away, the focus is beginning to shift to next year's Formula One World Championship, with more and more pieces to the puzzle falling into place. And the latest news comes from the Lotus team. The Enstone-based outfit has confirmed that it's keeping both its drivers right where they are for next season, with Romain Grosjean partnering Pastor Maldonado once again.
Swiss driver Grosjean, now 28 years old, made his grand prix debut with the team in 2009, returned as test driver in 2011 while winning the GP2 title, returned to the F1 grid in 2012 and has been driving for the team ever since. He's scored nine podium finishes to date, but has finished no better than his eighth place this season.
Venezuelan pilot Maldonado, 29, won the GP2 the year before his teammate, and moved up to F1 with Williams, for whom he drove for three seasons before switching to Lotus for this one. He shocked the field when he won the Spanish Grand Prix in 2012, but has only finished in the points once this season.
James Bond Lotus Esprit submarine car headed to auction [w/video]
Fri, 28 Jun 2013We've covered many cars from the movies and TV that have made their way to auction (the original Batmobile, good old General Lee and even Bond's iconic Aston Martin DB5), but this one ranks up there among the rarest and coolest. RM Auctions has just announced that the Lotus Esprit submarine car used in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me has been added to the docket for its upcoming auction in London, September 8-9.
Of course, there are dozens of Bond cars floating around out there in collections, but none as unique as this Lotus, which ended a chase scene in the movie by taking a long walk off a short pier and transforming itself into a submersible. Since CGI was a meaningless collection of letters back then, the producers of the film actually built a fully functional Lotus Esprit submarine for the shoot. They hired Perry Oceangraphic in Florida to turn one of their six Esprit body shells into a fully functioning submarine, and former US Navy Seal Don Griffin was tapped for piloting duties. RM Auctions claims the Esprit submarine cost over $100,000 to build at the time, which is about $400,000 in today's dollars.
The submarine car comes with a incredible story, too. After filming in the '70s, it was shipped to Long Island, NY where it was kept in a storage unit that was paid in advance for ten years. When the storage contract ended in 1989 and no one claimed the contents, they were sold off in a blind auction to an area couple who had no idea what they were getting. The car has been shown occasionally in the years since, but its value remained purely speculative, until now. To date, the most valuable Bond car we know of is the original Aston Martin DB5 used in Goldfinger and Thunderball that sold for $4.6 million in 2010, but when the gavel falls at RM Auctions' London sale in September, we'll find out if the car nicknamed "Wet Nellie" on set can beat it.
Why all of this year's F1 noses are so ugly [w/video]
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.