Something nice and not seen every day!

[Hakkola]

Originally posted by AllGoNoShow
Seen the orange one in person, really vibrant colour, I kind of liked it but I could see how a lot of people wouldn't.

Yeah, I was cruising behind it on Crowchild a couple weeks back, I didn't have my camera.

The car looked amazing.

[crazydriver]

Originally posted by Hakkola


Yeah, I was cruising behind it on Crowchild a couple weeks back, I didn't have my camera.

The car looked amazing.

I've seen it on crowchild too, didn't have time to whip out the camera

[brown_guy]

wow this is good to know ...lol

[anhsicun]

i seen a car like this in green in converty hills, not as impressive as the white one tho

[Spoons]

Pfft that isn't rare.

I own like 3 on Test Drive Unlimited...

*puts eballs away*

[sh0ko]

theres actually 2 other 25th anniversary editions in calgary
both black i believe

[banned3x]

this was at a local car show buy it!!

[Neil4Speed]

Originally posted by rmk
Love the white! Anyone else seen the orange Esprit around town?

That color is absolutely insane, so vivid, It looked like I could dip my finger in it! haha

Gorgous car, good on him for doing something different

[AE92_TreunoSC]

spotted this one, looked like a widebody mr2 from a distance lol, but as I go closer I realized it was a esprit

g/f took the pic so I wouldn't crash my car haha

[Euro_Trash]

Cool color ^^

[Drunkn_masta]

Espirts are

I remember i saw one parked a few doors away from my house once.

[TorqueDog]

I love the Esprits... I was tempted to pick one up from down south. Such wicked cars.

[justadude]

TuqueDog, do you go down alot? LOL

[Unknown303]

Originally posted by AE92_TreunoSC


spotted this one, looked like a widebody mr2 from a distance lol, but as I go closer I realized it was a esprit

g/f took the pic so I wouldn't crash my car haha

I've actually ridden in this one. Damn nice car, v8 twin turbo, Amazing low end. The guy was working out of our office for a while.

[ColoDano]

Very cool cars!!

The taillights are made by a manufacturer that then sells them to whatever car companies need them, and europen companies, especially ones that dont make a ton of cars, can avoid the costs of tooling their own molds if they use stuff like that, I believe that the VW Scirocco also used that same taillight on a few years. The most interesting case of parts use like that is the Mclaren F1, it used the tallights from a truck manufacturer, a million dollar car with semi-truck taillights!

[rage2]

Wow, Esprits still run?

It's a cool car and all, but I would never buy one, not worth the headaches. They're not known for reliability hehe.

I was stuck in traffic behind an older one the other day, probably S1 or S2 model can't tell the difference, the thing looked like it was about to die. I got a headache after 2 blocks of eating oil smoke.

[Eleanor]

Originally posted by rage2
They're not known for reliability hehe.

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[C4S]

S4 and up ( S4S is the Limited production sporty version ) are actually quite reliable .. but they are not cheap to maintain ..

Well .. only 10,000 Espirts were built .. in ~ 30 yrs .. vs ~ 20,000 F360 .. they are so rare ..

Most S1 S2, SE, S4 and V8 around .. but S4S, Sport 300, 180R are even more rare ....

But at the end of the day .. GM engine/tranny + Toyota/GM electronic .. if you can find their parts # under GM/Toyota .. then not bad at all!

[CSMRX7]

Originally posted by AE92_TreunoSC


spotted this one, looked like a widebody mr2 from a distance lol, but as I go closer I realized it was a esprit

g/f took the pic so I wouldn't crash my car haha

That one is actually owned by a beyond member.

[m10-power]

Not sure where the GM engine/ tranny comments comes from but the 918 engine was developed by Lotus and the transaxle was the same Renault UN1.

The last Esprit's, the V8 twin turbos were actually quite reliable. Problem is the previous models reliability tainted the newer cars. Most of these cars don't get driven frequently so they suffer issues like fuel pumps and leaking transaxle seals. All in all a great car, and unlike the large number of Ferrari's in town a true rare sight.

Lotus raced the V8 in GT1 against the mighty McLaren F1, with limited success and budget. They did manage to out qualify and lead some races.

GT1 racing

Forgot to add this picture of the Chrome Orange Esprit



The owner is a bit odd...