The Lotus Esprit has been voted best ever screen vehicle from the film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ by a Yahoo! Search survey.

Over 1,000 people voted for their favourite screen vehicle in the survey and the white Lotus Esprit car was the favourite securing almost a third of the vote followed by David Hasslehoff’s car Kit from Knight Rider (17%).

Patrick Oqvist from Yahoo! Search says: " With rear firing mud sprayers, an underwater kit that changes the car into a fully operative submarine, surface-to-air missiles, underwater smoke screens and torpedoes the most desirable screen vehicle has to be Bond’s."

The full results were as follows:

  • Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who loved Me (29%)
  • Kit from Knight Rider TV film (17%)
  • De Lorean from Back To The Future
  • Batmobile from Batman (10%)
  • Mini from The Italian Job (9%)
  • Gran Torino from Starsky & Hutch (6%)
  • A-Team Van from The A-Team TV film (5%)
  • Danny Zucko’s Greased Lightning from Grease (2%)
  • Herbie from Herbie Goes Bananas (2%)
  • Reliant Robin from Only Fools & Horses TV films (2%)