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Current thinking:
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Interior
• Black alcantara interior
• Yellow stitching
• Yellow internal colour pack includes
o Yellow seat hops
o Yellow switches
o Yellow controls
o Yellow exposed gear linkage surround
• Radio
• Air con
• Black floor mats
This is what I always planned to do before the additional Final Edition colour alcantara options were introduced.
Exterior
• Black rear spoiler as standard
• Black wing mirrors as standard
• Black aero pack as standard
• Yellow hardtop
• Yellow roll hoop
• Yellow engine bay cover with black grill
• Yellow front panel
• Add the BLACK PACK rear panel.
• Red brake callipers
• Black alloys
• Union jack delete
• Full PPF front and sides
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Regarding the full black pack:
• 99% of 250 Cup builds have the black pack but why ?
• Black pack rear panel essential IMO.
• With a coloured hard top I also have the option of the black soft top when I feel like a change.
My current preference exterior looks something like this (minus flag):
My current preference interior looks something like this (minus carbon sills and full carpeting):
Closest matches for real i can find:
If I go full black pack I would drop the hardtop option. This looks great , but many of them about but feels like a safer choice.
This image put me off the full black pack, too much black plastic if you include the hardtop is my issue.
No black pack at all
Originally only silver alcantara was available on the Cup then lotus wanted to charge 1500 for black. But after some consumer push back black was available again.
Silver alcantara looks good on certain colours but not with yellow and you end up with a grey, black and yellow interiors, total miss match IMO. Also the only coloured alcantara options available were blue and orange. only black works with yellow.
This is why I avoided silver alcantara / yellow needs black alcantara:
Orange with orange alcantara overkill IMO plus the shades differ but is unique to the Final Edition.
Also I got a look in person at a red heritage edition Elise with red alcantara seats and it was a wee bit to much for me.
Grey car / silver alcantara works well:
Have considered orange and isotope green.
I want to keep this car for a long time, its speced for me clearly but I also don't want the car to be unsellable when I am forced by the tax man to upgrade to an electric derivative.
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Alternative Spec:
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Interior (same as above)
• Black alcantara interior
• Yellow stitching
• Yellow internal colour pack includes
o Yellow seat hops
o Yellow switches
o Yellow controls
o Yellow exposed gear linkage surround
• Radio
• Air con
• Black floor mats
Exterior: (full black pack no hardtop)
• Black rear spoiler as standard
• Black wing mirrors as standard
• Black aero pack as standard
• Soft top only
• Full black pack
• Red brake callipers
• Black alloys
• Union jack delete
• Full PPF front and sides
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So I think i comes down too:
INTERIOR - pretty much confirmed.
EXTERIOR - choice between:
• a. full black pack + soft top
• b. partial black pack with coloured hardtop.
Also its unlikely the car will see the track. Weight saving options not really important to me over the standard options.
So decision making not my strong point then
