Geometry lesson by Giugiaro. Lotus Turbo Esprit.
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- 1981 Turbo Esprit. Designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. One of only 143 built to Colin Chapman's original specification which included dry sump lubrication. This example also has the full 'Essex spec' - air con, full red leather interior, Panasonic Cockpit roof stereo, light weight Compomotive 3-piece split rims. Identical to the exploding 'For Your Eyes Only' car (apart from the colour of the leather).
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That car still looks better than most of what's on the road today. nice video
Totally agree!! Amazing design and very undervalued these cars in the current market
Number27 Not anymore 😪
Better than a prancing donkey anyday....
Great looking car, futuristic and timeless supercar.
So nineteen eighties!...
The sound track too.
Nice!
what an awesomely designed car!
Best looking car ever made. I always wanted one. Love the mid-engine design. I used to own a Fiat. X1/9
Coincidental.I had an X1/9 also but always wanted an Esprit or 308/328 Ferrari. The X1/9 was a great car .
@@rab2826 I had all 3.
Sensational! I could look at that car all day.
Well done. I honestly think the Guigiaro Esprit is one of the most beautiful cars of all all time. I will own one some day. I'm always a bit tempted by the newer version simply because it is a more modern car, but the early cars are just so much more beautiful and special that I know would be shortchanging myself to settle for the Stevens version.
Yes I haven't tired of looking at it yet! ;)
I have also taken the plunge and bought a Turbo Esprit HC. It was my childhood dream car, just had to be done.
+Gary Milner A great idea, hopefully good investment too. When can we see some video of that? Almost nothing on TH-cam. I would happily come and film it one day if you are UK based. Enjoy!
Congrats. I getting one for my 54 birthday next year. Always wanted as a kid. I used own a Fiat X1/9
I love go cart feeling of mid-engine cars.
As he says (or rather doesn't) no words necessary. Never had a Lotus but I used to feel this kind of bond with my E Type jag, I would sometimes go out to the garage and spend time just sitting looking at it
Was lucky enough to have owned both an S3 and a Turbo HC back in the day. Would love to own a turbo again. Great memories of a beautiful car.
Always has, always will be my favorite car of all time....the original Guigiaro “folded paper” body style. I know they have their reliability issues, but......What a special car!
perfect esprit, so dig the white letter tires!
This is the car I lusted after in the 80s. The car still looks fantastic to me .Ive been a life long lotus fan currently lusting after the new lotus evora 400 !!! One day damn it one day !!!
Don't lead an unfulfilled life just go and buy one - any one.
Absolutely stunning. The car and the video. Well done. Cheers from a DMC-12 owner from across the pond.
This looks suspiciously like my home town near the ‘New Forest’. Awesome and stunningly beautiful car. If I new it was there, I’d have gone to see it!
Extra points for the roof stereo! Such a cool feature.
+PieterA the plan was to do a youtube jukebox of 1981 tracks played on the Panasonic Cockpit cassette player. Uploaded track 1 hoping it wouldn't get noticed by the tubebots but it was spotted straight away so no way round that I'm afraid. Hence the use of TH-cam library music. Nevermind, at least the car's original!
Not only was Colin Chapman an automotive genius, he was also the funniest of all the Pythons...
I had one of these back in the 1980s. A dry sump turbo but without the roof console stereo. It was Calypso red with a magnolia leather interior. The wheels were BBS as opposed to the Compomotives seen in this video. Registered in April 1982 I think. I was 28 years old when I bought it.
It was a very quick car then comparable with the Ferrari 328 and the Porsche 911. It was also very reliable and a joy to drive.
It was my first fix in what became a very serious Lotus habit.
Sounds like a nice car Alan. Glad to hear it was a good ownership experience. I hope it's still around somewhere! Thanks for watching.
The killer expense back in the 1980s was keeping the thing supplied with rear tyres. Back then a pair of NCT2s were more than four hundred pounds a pair and they lasted around ten thousand miles.
I kept the car for seven years and it was very reliable. The only big non scheduled replacement was a new clutch.
Nice habit to have. Have your other Lotus cars been as reliable?
Alan Betts Did the dry sump give you any trouble? Was there a start up sequence to lubricate internals until oil was sufficiently pumped?
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The dry sump gave no trouble in the seven years that I had the car. No special start up procedure described in the owner's manual. I just started it like any other car. Checking the oil level was different to a wet sump car and the procedure is covered in the owner's manual.
beautiful overhead console !
Yes it was the clincher for me with this car. A very rare option that was only available on the very early dry sump cars.
Wonderful 80s dream.
Beautiful car and a great video,
I love that blocky looking thing. Way too cool.
This is extremely well done. Much better than the average YT video. Something about the slow-moving ambient music works especially well in conjunction with shots of the landscape whipping by. Stunning car too, of course.
+grimson thanks, it took quite a while to put together I'm hoping youtube will begin to value quality over quantity one day but no sign of that happening yet! Thanks for watching.
Love it, a neighbour has 1 parked in his yard, just collecting mildew, I thought it got moved but I went by again tonight with the dog and saw it. Just sitting waiting for me to ask about it. Someday.
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Go rescue that car! It is your destiny !!! Go for it! It's waiting for you !
I would love to, but my wallet says no for now. Gotta buy a house with a big garage and then I'll have a place to store it.
Good looking car for sure.
1:19 Lol, very Top Gear. Well done for spending the extra time to produce something of this quality, nicely done sir. This classic car deserves no less ; )
Better looking than anything on the road today, car just oozes gorgeousness and coolness....
Very special car that and very little trouble during the time I owned it. My childhood dream car so very fortunate to have been able to realise it.
@@DrPittenstein that's awesome, yeah my childhood dream car for sure . Favorite bond car as well
I'm just a 14 year old kid that felt in love with this thing, looks so fucking stunning
many congratulations , on a superb video ..I love this car .. in white & red trim ..
So pretty. Looks so 70's sci-fi too. Specially inside.
It may need no words, but it needs more engine sounds! Otherwise, great video of one of the most beautiful cars ever.
Love it ! Always have! Own 3 Porsches and now I'm craving one! My mechanic loves them and owns two, an 85 and 86!
I'm currently looking for a 83-86 Esprit turbo clean well maintained and driven often, here in Orlando Florida! Wish me luck ! Those are Toyota Corolla tail lights. Most people don't know that these were mostly a parts bin built car.
It's very well known in the UK where all the various parts came from. Don't forget that Ferrari were using Fiat parts at this time also. In many ways the build and engineering on the Esprit is better than an early 80s Ferrari!
The tail lights are Rover SD1 fitted upside down.
The Toyota tail lamps weren't used until 1988. So did you buy an Esprit?
Hermoso vídeo, y bien editado. Como dice al final, a veces, las palabras se quedan cortas para expresar la belleza. Y este auto no es la excepción... ¡Saludos!
Muchas Gracias!
A geometry lesson, I never learnt a thing, I did nearly fall asleep whilst watching an esprit pass slowly by the camera every now and then.
I don't think you were paying attention Anthony. I suggest you watch it again! D minus!
Beautiful video. Wonderful car. Thank you.
Well done on turning that annoying wind noise when filming into another piece of art ! (5:40)ESPRIT LOVER
Very good, love the music you have put with this video, very emotional and Brian Eno esq.
its a very beautiful car.i think the giugiaro is way cooler than the later stevens esprit.I am on the lookout for a giugiaro myself
Totally agree.. hope you found your car!
Owned a 1989 Lotus Esprit SE for over 20 years. Great car, but sold it now, as parts were becoming harder to source.
my first Lotus was a Turbo SE, loved it dearly until it was stolen in Newcastle! Much faster than the original Turbo Esprit of course but they definitely had a few things in common.
Wonderful car! Love it since I was a child!
Me too! Since I was eleven to be precise!
+DrPittenstein Remember... For your eyes only! ;)
+Fox Mulder oh yes have a look out for the 'burglar protected' sticker in the drivers side quarter light!
I loved it since I saw it in "The Spy Who Loved Me" as an 11 year old.
Your videos are, as always, captivating. Cheers.
+Ryan Goodnight thanks Ryan I had quite a bit of help from Giorgetto Giugiaro for this one ;)
I was actually planning on buying the 1984 Turbo model of one of these and installing that cockpit radio. A shame they're so hard to find.
This was a very cool video
Sublime car...Sublime film... Thank you Sir!
What a beautiful esprit....the real esprit somehow the v8 just didn't make sense to me if we are talking Lotus.... the weight of these cars went up alarmingly as ownership of lotus changed and subsequent refreshes occured.
It has the good year logo painted on the side of Pirelli tires 🤔
georgeous film - amazing car...please tell what music you used in the film
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Beautiful
Ah, I see you put the Lotus back together again Q.
It still looks modern.Lotus could bring it out tomorrow.....
Perfection. Thank you for this.
A beautiful video, very nicely put together. The choice of music is perfect. The Giugiaro Turbo Esprit is 'what happens' when artists design cars. Truly stunning and will never be anything else.Please tell me the first piece of music please! It's mesmerising, just like the Turbo...
Thanks Aine, that's very kind. I'd change a few things if I was doing the video again but it was a good learning experience. I still own the car fortunately so perhaps I will shoot some more with it. It's very photogenic! The track can be found on the TH-cam library of free to use tracks. It's entitled 'Only Young and Old Know Love'. Bit of a crazy title but a nice track to edit to! Cheers! DrP
Very nice car
I think you might have a Lotus addiction & thats a good thing ! . I've been driving Lotus cars since the early 70's " Add lightness " -Colin Bruce Chapman My ethos since before I could legally drive
Gorgeous
Very true!
Perfection.
Great video
Thanks!
COLIN CHAPMAN THE "ONE & ONLY" A TRUE GREAT BRITAIN --Rest in peace- "CHUNKY"
Agreed. Speechless!
4:52 a Ford GT??
GoalieLife yup, pure chance encounter but nice to have caught it on film.
GoalieLife and a Tvr at 2:45
still a beauty
It was a really nice but under powered car. It should have had the same 0-60 as the 911 turbo, which was the quickest car in the late 70's. 5 seconds lol
Great Video
+Marcus James Knight Thanks, really the car is great, all I've got to do is to try not get in the way of that! ;)
what is the reason why the number plate changes at 4:25? I have loved this car since is was 11 years old, especially this colour combination with red pinstripes. I have a tommi makinen like you, and I was wondering how they compare to the esprit.
I found a better numberplate! You might notice the wheels change also, that clip was shot a while back. We must be a similar age John, I was 11 when FYEO came out and also wanted one ever since. I was lucky to find this car for sale so jumped on it. Haven't seen a better one for sale since. The TME is much faster in all respects but the Esprit still feels very grippy on modern rubber. Way ahead of its time really, remarkably little lag. Astonishing for 1981.
If it was lowered about 6ft it would look OK!
can I get the music from this video? please I absolutely love it.
The first track is entitled 'Only the young and old know love'. The second of track (Cylinder Three by Chris Zabriskie) is mentioned in the video intro above (click SHOW MORE). Both are from the TH-cam free music library. Cheers!
Great bit of filming!! Is it your's? I've got a Turbo S3 too and love it! We should do a film with both cars, mine is Essex Blue! Subscribed!
Thanks for the sub, I enjoy your channel some good stuff on there. Always up for some filming somewhere. Cheers!
Q would be proud ; )
yes he disconnected the anti theft system in this one fortunately!
La plus belle ...
I. Want. This
I would've called it Lotus Esprit Turbo, cos that's what it is. 😂
Pirelli / Good year :)
Goodyirelli
😍
oi m8, why is ur steering wheels on the wrong side
Where is Roger Moore LOL
SPEAK!!
fake good /year tires?
Yes well spotted. They are new Pirellis with Goodyear rubber letters stuck on the side. Unfortunately the original Goodyear NCTs are no longer available, I do have a set but they are 34 years old and not really up to the performance of the car! I have them on currently actually and the ride is a lot harder. Suitable only for shows really.
sweet Lotus when I was 16 in 1986 I loved that car. And it still looks amazing today!!
This car left the factory in 1981, so a very early Turbo. I was only a year older at 12!