Designed by one of Italy’s greatest automotive artists and bestowed with a chassis by a seven-time F1 World Champion constructor, the Lotus Esprit should have been perfection personified when it ...

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

The enduring wedge that Lotus calls the Esprit is being reborn in the form of a ground-up remastering. More than your typical restomod, the Encor Series 1 costs a staggering £430,000 before taxes, ...

A little British company called Encor is marking the 50-year anniversary of the Lotus Esprit’s spectacular debut at the 1975 Paris Motor Show with a new restomod, essentially a ground-up redo of the ...

The Lotus Esprit is 50, and a British company plans to build the ultimate version of it. Called the Encor Series 1, this restomod will blend the wedge-tastic design of the original car with the V-8 ...

Although James Bond is most associated with legendary Aston Martins like the DB5, the Vanquish V12 and the Vantage V8, those aren’t the only British vehicles to have graced the silver screen on his ...

Half a century ago, Giorgetto Giugiaro's wedge-shaped Lotus Esprit made its public debut and quickly became a British sports car icon. Today, this icon is reborn as a stunning, limited-edition ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Lotus Esprit’s Paris debut, a new British venture called Encor is set to unveil a modern reinterpretation of the original Esprit S1, called the Encor Series 1. While the ...

In recent years, the automotive restomod scene has picked up serious steam. From Alfa Romeos to Porsches, it seems like there is always a company (or sometimes, several) that will take your classic ...

The Encor Series 1 combines hardware from the post-1998 Lotus Esprit V8 with design themes from the four-cylinder-powered 1976 Esprit originally styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro. And it’s Colin Chapman’s ...