Corgi also made 10 gold-plated submarine Esprits in 1977 for the premier, and the current value exceeds $2,000. In addition to toy cars, people have made real Lotus Esprit models into James Bond ...

The idea originated from the Lotus submarine car which James Bond drove in the iconic 1977 film “The Spy Who Loved Me”. But unlike Bond’s Lotus, the sQuba is a convertible, with oxygen masks ...

Surprisingly, the EV truck’s style was inspired by a submarine car used in the 1977 James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me,” specifically a modified version of the Lotus Esprit. There were ...

So just imagine how much a Bond car was worth ... In fact, the ‘Lotus’ – which was bought at the sale by Elon Musk – was actually a film prop submarine used just in underwater scenes, ...

RM Auctions will sell a very unique piece of automotive engineering -- and a movie icon -- at its London auction on September 8-9, 2013: the Lotus Esprit Series 1 'Submarine' Car that starred in ...