eclat2emira
Emira Maniac
Greetings around the globe, whichever timezone you are in! It's G&T o'clock in Edinburgh - but only after I've completed this post...
I was talking to my local dealer the other day, the topic of colours came up and what new colours may be offered for the Emira - apparently the online configurator will be updated before the September show-car tour, although I am not sure if the colours will somehow be split between edition 1 and post-edition 1 cars. As with everything else at present, there are more questions than answers!
So, with my only other Lotus being a 1977 eclat, and with the 70s rapidly undergoing a revival so that the decade that was once seen as a desert when it came to good design is now starting to become cool, I thought I'd put up a selection of Lotus colours from that period to see if you think any are worthy of the Emira? There were the usual stock black, white, orange shades so I've only shown some of the more period-specific ones, purple and gold being the signature colours for me here. I've included a slightly obvious red but only because the modded red elite pictured is insane! It is possibly too much but boy it makes a statement - and improves the look and stance of that car, which I'm sure will become a design classic after being derided for many years.
Any favourites? Any horrors? And any colour suggestions from other Lotus eras?
I was talking to my local dealer the other day, the topic of colours came up and what new colours may be offered for the Emira - apparently the online configurator will be updated before the September show-car tour, although I am not sure if the colours will somehow be split between edition 1 and post-edition 1 cars. As with everything else at present, there are more questions than answers!
So, with my only other Lotus being a 1977 eclat, and with the 70s rapidly undergoing a revival so that the decade that was once seen as a desert when it came to good design is now starting to become cool, I thought I'd put up a selection of Lotus colours from that period to see if you think any are worthy of the Emira? There were the usual stock black, white, orange shades so I've only shown some of the more period-specific ones, purple and gold being the signature colours for me here. I've included a slightly obvious red but only because the modded red elite pictured is insane! It is possibly too much but boy it makes a statement - and improves the look and stance of that car, which I'm sure will become a design classic after being derided for many years.
Any favourites? Any horrors? And any colour suggestions from other Lotus eras?
