007's Lotus Esprit Road Test - a walkthrough of the movie submarine scenes

A review of a 1976 Lotus Esprit and description of how the submarine version of the car was created for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (Roger Moore).

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The Lotus Esprit was the start of the James Bond 007 film 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. BUT with a mere 160hp and a four cylinder engine it is thought by some as slower than a van. Is this fair? was it too slow to be a 007 car? I road test it and tell you how it drives and explain how they turned it into a submarine and made the gadgets like the missile launchers.

This video explains some of the scenes and special effects from the 007 Movie "The Spy Who Loved Me'. All rights for the movie are retained by MGM (https://www.mgm.com). The use of brief sections of copyrighted content falls under the guidelines of fair use in section 107 of the Copyright Act. The clips were taken from the chase scene on this youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1MDwVRgoQc

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