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1991 Lotus Esprit Turbo Se Coupe 2-door 2.2l on 2040-cars

Year:1991 Mileage:53443
Location:

Fenton, Missouri, United States

Fenton, Missouri, United States
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To the coolest car I have ever owned, it has been a fun ride my friend. This is a hard thing to part with, but I have had my fun, and its time for me to part with it. This car has spent the majority of its life in good n' dry Arizona, and the pristine frame and suspension show it. In the past 9 months, I have put nearly 11k into this machine. I initiated the rebuild because the car was having trouble idling. to replace all belts, gaskets, piston rings, turbo seals,camshafts, injectors, and numerous other internal parts, I had spent nearly 6k. Included in this price was an additional 600 for stage 2 camshaft, and an additional 200 per cylinder for forged rings. After all was said and done with labor, it had cost me nearly 10k. About a month following the rebuild, the alternator went out, and while the car was in the shop I had the clutch replaced since I knew it was going to need it in the near future. Again, going for bigger and better I went for the stage 2 clutch upgrade which was well worth it! Pryor to my ownership, custom made aluminum headers, and a dual exhaust was installed. The stereo, speakers, and amplifier is Blaupunkt brand. Besides these things, the car is stock and runs like a top. The whole rebuild was done a mere 700 miles ago! I have taken it very easy on the car since for the break in period. 

The paint on the car is not incredible. Along with being an Arizona car, came various tiny rock chips in the paint. Also the clips that attach the headlamp motors to the headlamps need replaced. I "fixed" the headlamps in the up right position until I can get the clips in.

The interior is in excellent condition and just shows slight wear on the side of the driver's seat at the stitching, the shift boot, and E-brake. The balsa wood dash shows its age with spider cracking throughout.

The previous owner informed me that back in 2000 the car was stolen, hence the reason for the rebuilt title.

please feel free to contact me with questions reguarding condition or anything concerning the sale of this car. Questions concerning the rebuild and all of the major mechanical work recently done should be addressed to the mechanic that ordered all parts, and performed the rebuild.

UPDATE 10/10/13 I found the gears I needed to fix headlights finally, I am ordering those today...



--Michael (owner) 314-221-6355

Terry (mechanic) 636-375-6443

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Lotus reveals new LMP1 at Le Mans

Fri, 13 Jun 2014

Lotus is at Le Mans this week where it has unveiled its new LMP1. Only it's not racing at Le Mans. And it's not really a Lotus, either.
The prototype belongs to an independent German team that ran a Lotus chassis in the LMP2 category last year, but was granted license by the FIA and ACO to step up to the top-tier LMP1 category to dice it with the front-running hybrids from Audi, Porsche and Toyota this year. Unfortunately, the team - which licenses the Lotus name from the automaker, much as the F1 team does - faced some setbacks. Not the least of those delays resulted from a mid-stream switch in engine suppliers from the Audi-sourced, naturally aspirated V8 it was originally set to use to a new turbocharged V6 from Advanced Engine Research.
As a result it wasn't ready for the Silverstone race that kicked off this season's World Endurance Championship in April. Nor was it ready for the second round at Spa in May or not for the headline event this weekend at Le Mans, but it aims to be on the track at the next round in Austin.

Lotus renames Russell Carr its head of design

Wed, 22 Oct 2014

There's been a changing of the guard at Lotus recently. The legendary British sports car manufacturer fired its controversial chief executive Dany Bahar and replaced him recently with Jean-Marc Gales. And now it's named a new chief designer. Or rather, renamed its old one to the post.
That designer is the appropriately named Russell Carr, who had previously held the post until Bahar brought in his former compatriot Donato Coco (with whom he had previously served at Ferrari) and charged him with designing a series of ambitious but ill-fated concept cars that debuted at the 2010 Paris Motor Show and were subsequently axed on Bahar's way out. Now Coco has been shown the door as well, effective at the end of this month. In his place, Carr - who has been with Lotus since 1990 - has been given back his old job after having been demoted to playing second fiddle to Coco for five years.
Although both Gales and Coco both served in senior positions at PSA Peugeot Citroën, Gales didn't join the French automaker until 2009 - the same year that Coco joined Lotus, five years after having left PSA to work at Ferrari.

Lotus' new position: Much improved, if Volvo's experience is a guide

Wed, May 24 2017

Out today is the news that Geely Holding will acquire controlling interest in British sports car maker Lotus Cars. While some 20 years ago the Chinese acquisition of a British automaker might have inspired grumbling from aggrieved Brits (and the handful of Lotus enthusiasts), the world has moved on. And so – thankfully – can Lotus. To suggest Lotus' business history has been checkered is to broaden the definition of "checkered." With its beginnings in the early '50s as a maker of component cars for competition, Lotus founder Colin Chapman – in a manner not unlike his postwar contemporary, Enzo Ferrari – was always hustling, living a hand-to-mouth existence in the production of road cars to support a racing program. Regrettably, Chapman never found a Fiat, as Ferrari did toward the end of the 1960s. Lotus had Ford in its corner for racing and as a resource for powertrains, and later benefited from the corporate support of both GM and Toyota for relatively short periods. Lotus Cars, however, never enjoyed the corporate buy-in that would have allowed Chapman to race and let someone else build the cars. Regardless of what Consumer Reports or Kelley Blue Book might have thought (if they had ...) about those early Lotus cars, a great many are now regarded as classics. My first knowledge of a production Lotus was when Tom McCahill, the 'dean' of automotive journalists in the US, tested an early Elan for Mechanix Illustrated. While we're still not sure, some 50 years later, how McCahill's XXL frame fit into the tiny roadster, he had nothing but praise for the Elan's athletic chassis and now-timeless design. In today's Lotus portfolio, the Elise and Exige continue that light, athletic tradition, while the larger Evora seems to strike wide – literally and figuratively – of the "less is more" ideal. With the Toyota-powered Evora, more is more. But in an eco-sensitive era demanding more of the original Chapman mantra – add lightness – there's little reason that Lotus can't regain relevance if given the financial resources. Geely's acquisition of Volvo, the fruits of which appear regularly not only in the news but on the streets, suggests the Chinese investment will provide strategic vision (along with money) while allowing Lotus talent to do what it does best: Create an exciting product. And while at various periods in its history the product has been worthy, Lotus in the US has been ill-served by a flailing dealer network.