3. Production Figures | After a build run which lasted 25 years, The DLVA have informed us just 1462 Esprits were registered in the UK in 2004 There were a total of 628 Lotus Esprit S4 models built over a 4 year span. Lotus US have records showing that a total of 337 Esprit S4 models were imported to the US. That leaves a remaining 291 for all other markets including the UK. The breakdown by year is show opposite. The latest date from the DLVA in the UK indicate that only 95 S4 Esprits were registered in the UK in 2004. In 1994, there were 3 different Esprit models built by Lotus, totaling 370. The S4, the S4s, and the Sport 300. The Sport 300 was only available in the UK, and the S4s was likely a prototype, as there was only one built. Here's the complete breakdown for 1994:
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Total Esprit S4 Built by Year |
Exported to US by Year | ||
1992 | 4 | - | ||
1993 | 233 | 118 | ||
1994 | 339 | 137 | ||
1995 | 46 | 82 | ||
1996 | 3 | - | ||
Total Esprit Build Figures in 1994. Esprit S4 Models = 339 |
4. Vin Numbers | Frits van der Veen in the Netherlands has created a clever VIN Decoder for his website. Karl-Franz Marquez (EspritFactFile) has now modified the decoder to handle all VIN codes up until the 2003 Model Year. Click here to take you to his VIN Decoder on the EspritFactFile website. To understand what all the characters in your particular VIN mean you can use the charts. |
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This is the output from the VIN decoder for my S4. As you can see it was the 33rd S4 produced. Although built in Hethel in 1993 it was not registered by the DLVA in the UK until 1994. |