Kilometrage certified (chassis and engine): 15000 miles (24000 km)
Options builder: lotus sport with schroth harness sits and aircon carbon
Equipments: air conditioning (work perfectly rare moreover)
RHD or LHD of origin: RHD
If conversion: date and availability of an invoice? No
First hand? Not third hands
Pad of available maintenance? Yes complete (with all the invoices since 2001)
Known history? Yes
Use tracks? By you and old owner so known (never, occasional, regular): strictly never of trackday
Already damaged? no
Date of the last maintenance, the state of tires: in April, 2013 (all brake), the set of tyres is new 500 miles
Other: C service (cambelt) and a complete check up was made in June, 2012 (chassis, waterproofness engine, compression engine, waterproofness system cooling etc.) the vehicle was always followed by fabbri fred (performans engine in Le Mans) moreover as all my old lotus cars.
The vehicle is strictly of origin except put lines him lotus sport (exhaust of origin available) because I wished to keep her in a state factory exit.
The configuration black for the outside and the red alcantara for the inside is rare, furthermore it so rare to find a homogeneous and complete inside with door panel, padding pontoon, steering wheel and siege of the same color and the same material (alcantara ).
Outside state: the body is clean as well as the mask before because it has the protective film of origin.
I treat the carroserie every month with meguiars. products moreover it has sudden a treatment in the premises of meguiars.
Has to indicate two stripes on each of the wings before, because I lived a small misadventure by going to classic Le Mans with tompel my broom of glasse wiper - fell down and has to bang both wings
Internal state: very clean, anything has to indicate.
Stunning looking car and good luck with your sale. Please just ignore my next comment as your English is far better than my French ever will be but your translation has just had me laughing out loud. it is however easy to understand what you are trying to say if you read it a couple of times.
Putting an Audi in an S1 would be mega quick… but that would also happen if you put an Audi in your S2 mate!
I went back to an S1 because driving an S1 is more about the whole experience, not about being especially quick! My S2 was MUCH quicker but my S1 brings me a much more overall enjoyable drive… IMHO of course!
Love the S1 but could not live with the potentially fragile K Series, would rather have a sensibly performing Audi Turbo which is likely to be more reliable.
I wonder how much longer story of potentially fragile K series will hang around for!!!
FFS, a few blown head gaskets seem to have given so many peeps the ‘yips’ about such a great engine!!! Surely it is now time to move on from that mindset!!!
It is lightweight, as Lotus wanted, produces good torque and power, sounds great and asde from seeing Ian’s throw lots of steam at Anglesey a few years ago, I have yet to see one display any fragility!!! And it is so well suited to the S1 driving experience and character, that probably attracts you to the car in the first place!!!
Funny, it was my Toyo S2 that let me down with an oil leak!!!
Not a can of worms mate as we all have our opinion! Mine is that the K is a great engine and properly modded will give many years of service! Esprits car is a great example, especially listening to the way George drives the nuts of it!
Crikey, Steve, didn’t realise you’d put 37k on it. I’ve just passed that and according to some it’ll need a “refresh” at 40. Better start saving, eh?
And, Pete, you are so right. The car is so right with its little buzzing K
Edited to remove derogatory reference to engine experts
i did say “potentially”… sadly it is just the way I see them, I did have a VHPD in my Sport190 and spent most of my time worrying if it would expire or not, it never did and i put 15k miles on it in 2 years, I would just rather have an Audi turbo in it with a reasonably sensible amount of power
