The auction house H and H expects the 1980 Lotus Esprit "Essex" Turbo with the active suspension to sell for £70,000 to £80,000 ($91,876 to $105,000). Check Out More Lotus News.

The Lotus Esprit’s initial design was a classic shape, one that Lotus didn’t want to change for a good three decades. Except when the 1981 Esprit Turbo added a big duck tail spoiler in the ...

None of us knows what is going on inside Hethel HQ, but the fact that there really is a lightweight, twin-turbo, 650-hp Lotus Esprit finally ready to be produced has to be, in spite of all else ...

Making its debut as Giorgetto Giugiaro’s “Silver Car” concept in 1972, the production Esprit arrived in 1976 and lived on, and on, and on, until 2004. For nearly 30 years, this distinctive ...

The first standard production Lotus Turbo Esprit arrived in 1981 with the same chassis and 2.2-liter turbocharged inline-four engine as the Essex special edition car, but with wet-sump lubrication.

The Lotus Esprit Turbo SE produces 264 hp at 6500 rpm—a 36-hp increase over the standard-issue 1990 Esprit Tur­bo. Of course, the SE package adds twelve grand to the sticker, which works out to ...

Lotus had long been baiting high-end cars with the Esprit, but it was in this forced induction, 150-mph guise where the wedge from Hethel really started to threaten the supercar elite.

When Lotus ceased production of the Esprit in 2004, it was powered by an all-aluminum 350-horsepower 3.5-liter twin-turbo V-8 that was built in-house. Source: Autocar See All 3 Photos ...

The 1987 Esprit Turbo is the sweet spot in the range, and it carries some extra sentimental value. The S3 Esprit Turbo was the last car Lotus founder Colin Chapman developed before his death in 1982.

Despite a couple of small chips on the lower section of the rear bumper, the A02 black paint and golden Turbo Esprit scripts make for a bit of a tribute to the John Player Special-liveried Lotus 76.

Anyway, all this gives us an idea: There’s this 1988 Lotus Esprit Turbo project featured on Bring a Trailer, see, and the faded paint isn’t doing it any favors.