I can only guess it's still in New York. Ce fut notamment le cas à la fin des années septante, lorsqu’il opta pour une Lotus Esprit S1 dans L’espion qui m’aimait. Wet Nellie – a custom-built submarine created for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, in the shape of a Lotus Esprit S1 sports car. A submarine car used in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me has been sold for £550,000. Elon Musk bought it for nearly $1 million in 2013. As the pictures from above show, this was the actual sub and not a prop. Outline of James Bond; Rinspeed sQuba, a submersible car inspired by the film. A real collectors item, if you can find the space. James Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine car sells for $968,000. On August 3, 1977, the world got its first look at a white Lotus Esprit that did a lot more than any James Bond car ever had before. With it location at the time of sale in New York and it not reaching it's reserve. The S1 was launched in October 1975 at the Paris Auto Show, and went into production in June 1976, replacing the Europa in the Lotus model lineup. Inside James Bond's Lotus supersub The gadget-laden Lotus Esprit submarine car driven by James Bond is expected to fetch at least £500,000 at auction. It does however serve as the closest vehicle to the original Bond car in Australia right now. This unique prop spent years in a Long Island storage locker but can still drive under the waves. James Bond's Lotus Esprit S1 from The Spy Who Loved Me The Lotus Esprit shot to fame in the 1977 James Bond Film, The Spy Who Loved Me, staring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach. As you can see from some of the pictures above, the Esprit Submarine still exists and was recently for sale on Ebay in May of 2003. As the star car in The Spy Who Loved Me, the Esprit drove off a dock, transformed into a submarine, and instantly became one of the greatest Bond cars of all time. The Lotus Esprit sold for less than the guide price despite a bidding war between a woman in the auction room and a telephone bidder who took the prized collector's piece. The Lotus Esprit S1 (or Series 1) is a sports car that was built by Lotus in the United Kingdom between 1976 and 1978. Le modèle est piloté par James Bond (Roger Moore) au cours d’une mission en Sardaigne où il est amené à investiguer sur l’armateur Karl …