Esprit is coming back?

[Xtrema]

http://www.thecarconnection.com/images/scrapbook/original/2310.jpg

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Enthusiasts/Spy_Shots/Spy_Shots_08_Lotus_Esprit.S178.A10606.html

[spyce]

Looks a lot like the gallardo but I like it
It needs an update :)

[Redlyne_mr2]

Looks awesome !

[bspot]

I love it! I like the styling queues taken from the elise.

Too bad they'll never make a Lotus that a 6'7 person can drive :(

[djayz]

looks awesome aside from the fog lights up front...

[2m0a0x2]

its hotttt

[three.eighteen.]

i'll be the first to do it....CHOP!

[2.2vtec]

how much?

[three.eighteen.]

so no one else actually sees is a murcielago with elise vents and some other kind of headlight?

[DonJuan]

^^^ First thing I notoced... I actually though Gallardo, but close enough. I'm not feeling the hood wheels or lights, but I'd gladly take this rather than see the Esprit name die. I guess it isn't goinna have the twin turbo V8 huh? What engine are they gonna use? Who owns Lotus now anyways? I guess i could just click the link.

[Shoebox//Racer]

i can guarantee they wouldnt put that copyright crap on their like that if it was official... hehe.. the type would be much cleaner and positioned alot better than that bad chop

[habsfan]

ya thats definitely a chopped gallardo. lotus is rumored to be working on a replacement, but this sure as shit isn't it

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by three.eighteen.
i'll be the first to do it....CHOP!

You don't have to call it, it's said in the article......



These photos include a computer-drawn artist's impression of how the new Esprit might look upon its release.

Also, that's why there a ? in my title.


VVV Again people don't read.......

[SC2]

Chop.

The right foglight is way off.

[crazydriver]

yeah a chop, but i wouldn't mind driving that

[nhlfan]

Originally posted by habsfan
ya thats definitely a chopped gallardo. lotus is rumored to be working on a replacement, but this sure as shit isn't it

they are making a replacement for the espirit that will be sold starting in 2008. Nothing else is for sure yet.

[jersturbo]

its a pleasent enough looking shape / style...but lacks any edge...not nearly radical enough!

the Elise was a departure from the norm, Exige is wild...

...and given its history, the Esprit should be as well, a revoltion, not just more of the same offerings!

IMO

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/jersturbo/0602_f430_exige_05_445.jpg

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[/////AMG]

The orginal Esprit is so god damn hot! :drool: :drool:
I don't think the new one will looks anything like that...

[nich148_9]

On the May 21 episode of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson showed a sketch from Lotus of what it'll look like. Screencap is below:
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8127/espritreplacementla9.jpg

Sorry about the poor quality.