For fans of "The Spy Who Loved Me," you are likely very familiar with the Lotus Esprit turned submarine — yes the irony of a Lotus model being underwater is hilarious — in the old James Bond flick. Well, like most other movie cars, that one recently crossed the auction block, and the news just come out that the buyer who paid the £616,000 ($996,560) just so happened to be Tesla’s Elon Musk.
That’s big news in itself, but what’s more important are Elon’s plans with this submersible sports car. He plans to bring the car back to its road-going roots, but with the powertrain of a Model S in tow. That’s right, he is taking a car that cost nearly $1 million and stripping it of the majority of why it was so expensive.
Sure, the creativity is out of this world, and an electric-powered Esprit with somewhere between 302 and 416 horsepower in tow in fantastic, but to drop that kind of dough, then change the whole car seems rather wasteful. He could have just snagged up any old Esprit for a fraction of the price he paid for this iconic sports car.
Then again, Elon Musk likely found that scratch between the seat cushions of his couch...
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Tesla CEO Buys 007's Lotus-Based Submarine and Has Big Plans for it originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 22 October 2013 13:00 EST.
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