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1984 Lotus Turbo Esprit This Lotus Turbo Esprit S3 is a 1985 model-year car, built in 1984. It was specified with every factory option available in that year including the unique all-over White Out paint finish and the lift-out Targa tinted-glass roof panel with wind deflector, stashed in the factoryoriginal Lotus storage bag. It has been cherished by its one owner, who has diligently sourced period accessories including a red
plastic Kingavon petrol can, the 1985 issue of the anti-theft Krooklok, the AA book for the period, various JPS accessories and even a classic JPS Players cigarette packet (JPS was the sponsor of the Lotus F1 Team at the time). It also retains all the original factory labels, and it has covered just over 2000 miles from new. As you’ll see, it remains in pristine, factory-fresh, time-warp condition.
1996 Lotus Elan M100 Lotus revived the Elan name, originally used in the 1960s and early ’70s, for the front-wheel-drive Elan M100 sports car, styled by Peter Stevens and launched in 1989. This example is a limited-edition model of the M100, no. 584. Owned by the current keeper since 2005, the Elan is in impressive original condition, as built by Lotus Cars in 1996. It is painted in Medina Green
1957 Lotus Eleven LM150 Manufactured by Lotus Cars in 1957, the Lotus Eleven sports-racing car was fitted with the Coventry Climax FPF 1500 twin-cam engine and given the model prefix LM150. This Eleven LM150 is chassis no. 11-332. It was a Team Lotus works entry, which raced at Rouen and Reims in 1957 driven by Herbert Mackay-Fraser, an American always known as ‘Mac’ Fraser. Sadly he became the first
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Lotus works driver to lose his life in competition. The Eleven LM150 was later sold to Carroll Shelby Sports Cars, and was raced in many US events by Jim Hall, later of Chaparral Cars fame. Returned to the UK in the 1970s and restored in 2006, the Lotus has since competed in many historic race events. It was the winning car in the 2017 Goodwood Revival Madgwick Cup.
with a leather interior, and is powered by a 1.6-litre turbocharged Isuzu fourcylinder. The car was initially used by the current owner as everyday transport, but owing to growing children it was driven less frequently after 2012. It now lives alongside two other Lotus models – a 1967 Elan and a 1961 Elite. The M100 is sometimes overlooked, but it is one of the besthandling front-wheeldrive cars of all time.
