Yes, though truth be told, I didn't know until after I had purchased my DeLorean. I knew fairly little about the cars before I bought mine, so I got really lucky that I picked up one as good as mine.
The similarities between the 80s Esprits and DeLoreans are pretty neat. When I was looking through some old family photo albums, I found a few pictures of my dad's 1987 Esprit. The rear view of the cars is quite close, as well as the over-all shape. Even closer in resemblance are the interiors, though the DeLorean came with either gray or black, no tan. But, seeing as Giugiaro had his hand in both, not too surprising.
I believe Esprits also used Bosch K-Jet at some point, correct?
I would like to own an Esprit at some point, but it is at least a few years down the road. I'll be looking at a few different sports cars at that point, and if I can find a good one, an Esprit will certainly be stiff competition for the other candidate cars.
Unfortunately, I don't have a scanner handy to show any pictures of the Esprit that my father owned, but if anyone is interested I am putting a link to my Flickr photostream of my DeLorean below. The first two pages are pictures from the Bricklin/DeLorean convention last year, so I linked to page 3.
Flickr: michaellund2003's Photostream
This is probably a long shot, but are there any Esprit owners in the western NY area on here? I'd like to meet up once car weather gets here again so we can check out each other's cars.
-Mike
