One of the biggest value-related questions in the performance car market today must surely surround the Lotus Esprit V8. Specifically, why is this 20-ish-year-old exotic car so cheap, in an era where you often have to pay an arm and a leg for a 1990s Japanese icon and remortgage the house for an air-cooled Porsche? Don’t forget that this was the final V8-powered sports car to come out of Lotus. It has a bespoke twin-turbo flat-plane crank V8, which Lotus developed completely in-house, sitting in the middle and driving the rear wheels through a manual transmission.
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