Wedge Style At Silverstone: Worshipping The Esprit Club - Speedhunters (blog)
I’m sure most of us have a car from our childhood that stands out – something which resonates with a particular moment in our life. It’s the car we’d love to own some day, even though that may probably only be in our dreams. I think films can be the biggest trigger, particularly in the pre-internet era when a movie appearance could be the only time you’d ever expect to see cars perform to an outrageous max. For me, it was the Lotus Esprit from that most car-laden of film franchises, James Bond. The DB5 was before my time, so to my childhood eyes it was the ferocious white wedge of Wet Nellie screaming round the mountains of Sardinia that stole my imagination away, right from the first time I saw The Spy Who Loved Me. At the Silverstone... The fact that a car from another film almost derailed the entire company makes for an ironic twist: Lotus’ ill-starred involvement (along with the British government…) in the DeLorean scandal could have destroyed more than just its reputation. A car produced under difficult circumstances as the company lurched from crisis to crisis. Source: www.speedhunters.com
