The Lotus Esprit Turbo arrived in an era dominated by big-displacement Italian exotics, yet it relied on lightness, sharp engineering and a stubbornly individual character to compete far above its ...

While the M70 looked much like the production Esprit, it would take until late 1974 before a drivable prototype was assembled and the finalized Series 1 Esprit went on sale to the public in 1975 for ...