Wet Nellie finds a buyer

The submersible Lotus Esprit used in filming the 1976 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me sold at auction on 9 September in London for £616,000 ($976,000). According to consigners RM Auctions, the winning bid was placed by an anonymous buyer by telephone. The Esprit, which earned the nickname Wet Nellie on the production set, was said to be fully operational.

Week in pictures: A Renault fit for a pope

A humble ride for his holiness

Motivated by a papal plea, a priest from northern Italy has given Pope Francis I his 1984 Renault 4L. The pontiff will drive the compact wagon, which has 300,000km (186,000 miles) on its odometer, around the Vatican, a spokesman said. Pope Francis has called on clergy to shun ostentation and live humbly, a directive that resonated with the priest, 70-year-old Renzo Zocca (second from right), who had driven the car for decades. It is not the first Renault to be presented to a pope. Benedict XVI, Pope Francis’ predecessor, took delivery of two electric Renault vans in 2012 for use within the Vatican and at his summer residence southeast of Rome, at Castel Gandolfo