It's an S2. The spoiler is much improved item over the S1. Which does seem to catch the side wind.

@@FridgeProductionsLtdS2 rear lights and wheels too

This is from about 1995 and there'd been motoring review shows for decades by then.

Nobody does it like Jeremy. In a class by himself.

Groundbreaking? You mean by driving cars and saying what they think?

@@michaelb2388 don't forget being cheeky

This wasn't Clarkson, Hammond, (after the first series) May TG, this was the old TG.

I wonder if he could even still FIT in that car?

did you see the fiat x1/9 in the corner ? it rusts in pis 😁

I love the 'Pretty Woman' soundtrack insertion.

Peter Stevens did the more boxy shaped x180 / Esprit SE .. The "rounded bumper" styling that was named S4 series, and ended up in the V8 ..the one with oval louvred vents on the tailgate, that style was Julian Thomson and his team mates

She still is. I am the current owner 😁

Definitely

It is....they have been friends since they went to Repton together.

LOL yep. The LTC trilogy was as close as I ever got to owning one!

Haha me too

That van probably has 50 hp. It will beat a Model A with a sidevalve 4 cylinder.

10 year old 330d BMW is the new fastest car

Was an occasional presenter on the original series as well.

He was involved in old Top Gear too

...and the lingering painful death of Top Gear.

No it really isn't.

@@ngc-fo5te oh dear!

@@caprirosso3 I agree - the original poster is so far off.

Indeed, just beautiful lines.

It's not even nicer than the original.

that makes a happy driver, and a thoughtful car ;-)

Most modern cars are designed to look the same...

@@artmallory970 I think that may have something to do with aerodynamics...

@@rallymaniac92 That's part of it, they want to ensure conformity...

For sure. The older esprit with sharp lines was totally distinctive and had a supercar look. The S4 was softer, and in some angles looked Toyota Supra-like

4.5 right?

Yes indeed. In 1977 that would have put it in the top 5% of the quickest cars. Saying that the S4 could now be beaten to 60 mph by some of the current diesel BMW's. Carpe Diem, as they say.

@@CloakedPerv that’s crazy for the time.

The best time that the SE turbo ever got recorded I saw was 4.8 seconds. The best time I ever saw the S4 turbo recording was 4.5 seconds the best time the S4 s turbo that I saw was 4.2 seconds. The thing that I don't understand is how with PS4s chipped it made 330 horsepower 300 stock but a small tweak gave it 330 horsepower and it did not have any faster of a 0-60 time that was not within the average range that the scnes for in the stock S4s we're always getting. And what I really don't understand is how when the Esprit V8 came out even to the very end it's still never had that much faster of a 0 to 60 time the best I ever saw a recorded on a stock B&S free was 4.0 flat but usually the average was four point four. That was just something I don't understand how the hell that happened is the only thing that I can think of is that that transmission is really that bad and not much of an Achilles heel to that car that even with a bigger engine and more horsepower no matter what you the inability to roll through the gears smoothly put all three cars within the same average somewhere in the four-second range.

Newer format was even better.

Jeremy Clarkson is also 6 ft 5.

It was probably a Fiat Fiorino

@@ventisette. Yes! That was it, thank you. The name comes back to me now that you say it.

The engine cooling when they filmed in Sardinia wasn't good enough. Good old Lotus lol

I been offered one for 15k

@@CaymanIslandsCatWalks someone either loves you Vinnie…..or someone really hates you. For $15 it’s either got too many miles and issues or you are about to get the deal of a lifetime.

@@fortyfour6626 the 2.2 50,000on clock or less.

@@CaymanIslandsCatWalks oh man. I’m 48 now and my kids are adults and moved out. I have the garage space….for me, in my spot, for 15k it would be a fun build. At 50k, I know it has a major service approaching fast but that could be a fun car. Even if you havd to initially put $5k into it…it could be for for you.

I’m well over 6 foot and wear 11.5. Fit just fine. I also have had two, v8 and s4. Both never cost me more than a couple hundred a year to maintain even with major services. They’re actually great cars if you buy one that isn’t a garage queen and gets driven. Cracked 60k miles in both

Lotus designed a flat plane crank v8 for corvette years ago. It didn’t work out because of how much more expensive it was to make and the americas missed the cross plane noise.

@@kentonian Lotus indeed produced engines for the Corvette. I find it interesting that it took decades for GM, after owning Lotus, the maker of one of the best handling sports cars (the Esprit), to come out with a mid-engine version. As we speak, fans of the new Corvette eagerly wait in anticipation of a flat-plane, twin-turbo, overhead cam engine, something available in the Esprit since 1997.

I think the ZR1's engine was designed by Lotus.

The lotus V8 is not a good engine. It had many problems…….

@@449Raphael It was an extremely small production engine - and it was not stress-tested like, say, Toyota or Honda might do for a 150hp engine used in their mass-produced cars. My v8 is 20+ years old now - have not had any failures at all. But a brand-new twin turbo, intercooled, with a flat plane crankshaft - Lotus Engineering did a fine job.

Hey! I was thinking the exact same thing, but really different, so not really the same. And I was wondering if anyone was not thinking the same, let alone different! Thanks for that other thing too that hasn't happened yet.

What a cool camper van it would make here in the US.

Going off the Lotus registration and Clarkson’s wardrobe, I think 1993/94.

What's wrong with this turbo 4 cylinder?

@@paulhunter123, nothing….. I have a turbo 4cyl AND a V8. They are different. And if you don’t know that difference. That’s ok.

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