Lotus: The Complete Story

Excellent gift for Lotus owner

Lovely book very interesting

A comprehensive history of every model plus a brief introduction to the Esprits replacements, Evora and Emira. Nicely produced.

Having just purchased a Lotus Esprit Turbo it was great to find a book written about these cars that was in fact recommended by Classic Team Lotus during a wonderful visit there. I highly recommend this book, great insights from the designers and engineers who worked on these cars during there development.

From the Spy Who Loved Me to the last S4 V8, all Esprit's are acknowledged in this all embracing book. For one who's only hope of owning one is the Lottery, this is the next best thing.

A very nice read indeed a nice start for a new elise owner that want to get an appreciation of history

Ordered the car, bought the book. Nice, easy to read, wealth of inside detail, great pics. Staggering that it even includes early artwork design sketches which look like the NEW Elise-II (aka Elise 2000). Surely, time for an updated NEW Edition, John, get your skates on mate.. include the Exige, and the new shape. Very well worth the money, buy it if you intend to buy the car or just love it anyway.

This book is an OK "view from 40,000 feet." The content is "big picture" and thus lacks the detail, especially technical detail, production facts and figures, and comprehensive race results wanted by real Lotus enthusiasts. Author Johnny Tipler writes well -- easy to read, flows logically. Certainly Tipler is far better than most who write for Crowood, especially given that Crowood do not seem to do any real editing themselves. The photos are largely stock shots from Goodwood, and reproduction is often mediocre. Crowood books are done to a formula that minimizes the number of pages and thus forces a lot of smallish pictures. But, as I say, if you only want the view from 40,000 feet, this book serves.

A great present for a Lotus owner. He loved it.

Compré este libro principalmente por las fotos de los coche de Fórmula 1 y resulta que la mayoría, sobre todo de la época de John Player Special, no fueron tomadas en su día en las carreras originales sino en Festivales, carreras Conmemorativas o Históricas y similares, muchos años después y, obviamente, con pilotos modernos.

Great history of lotus

If you own a Lotus Esprit this is a no brainer, it really covers everything, unlike the other book on Esprits, which is still a good buy but not to this level of writing or depth. Well worth the money.

è un libro che dovrebbero comperare tutti quelli che credono esistano solo le Ferrari.. Lotus, Alpine, Matrà, Durant,... un mondo di artigiani da valorizzare!