Second only to the DB5 as the best of the Bond cars, the Lotus Esprit was to feature in two Bond films. A pair of Turbo Esprits featured in For Your Eyes Only, the burgundy car arriving briefly at a ski resort only to self destruct when tampered with - that might sound familiar to many classic Lotus owners. The Esprit's most famous Bond appearance though was with the standard model in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977.
Most Lotus owners avoid water if they can, but Bond didn't need to with his sub-aquatic Esprit. Even the Esprit's legendary handling couldn't outwit Bond's pursuers chasing him down in helicopters, so Bond took to the ocean in the white 1970's wedge. Still one of the most memorable sequences of any Bond film, the Esprit turning into a submarine after launching itself off a jetty is the stuff of schoolboy dreams. We all still want one because of it, over 30 years after the film debuted.
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