Articles
October 1991 issue of Sports Car International featured the X180R on the cover and an in-depth article inside.- “Escort Surprise!", SCCA SportsCar Magazine, June 1990
- “A Star Among the Stripes”, Autocar & Motor, Sep 12 1990
- “Riding with Miles”, John Miles, *Autocar & Motor, Sep 12 1990
- “Street-Legal Race Cars”, Autoweek, September 17, 1990
- “Lotus Esprit SE Blooms as X180R”, Autoweek, March 4, 1991
- “Life in the Fast Lane - The X180R”, The Chapman Report (Golden Gate Lotus Club), Kiyoshi Hamai, September 1991
- ”??", Exotic Cars Quarterly, vol 2, no 1?, 1991?, p74-80
- “X Racer”, Sports Car International, October 1991
- “Season Opens for LotuSport”, The Chapman Report, March 1992
- “Still hectic, after all these years”, Motorsport, July 1992
- “LotuSport Races at Home”, The Lotus Letter, April 1993
- **“The Rebirth of the LotuSport Team”, Lotus ReMarque, August 2005
- “Corps de Esprit - Lotus”, Hemming’s Sports & Exotic, December 2009
Factory Documents
- Lotus Esprit X180-R Build Parts List (Lotus Engineering)
- Lotus X180R Owner’s Manual Supplement
- Internal 1990 European Lotus importer meeting presentation binder
LotuSport Race Reports
Press Releases
- Lotus Makes Successful Comeback - Racing in America, 1990 (LCU)
- Race-Winning Esprit Stars on Lotus Motor Show Stand, Sep 17 1990 (LCGB)
- Doc Bundy Wins Driver’s Championship, 1992 (LCGB)
- Lotus Esprit Sport 300, Sep 1993 (LCGB)
- IMSA Bridgestone Motorsport Press Kit
Books
- The Lotus Book (Third Edition), William Taylor, 2005
- Lotus Esprit: The Complete Story, Jeremy Walton, 1996
- Lotus Esprit: The Official Story, Jeremy Walton, 2006
- A Life in Car Design - Jaguar, Lotus, TVR, Oliver Winterbottom, 2017
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