Good vibrant colour, and I too love an 80's classic - the Lotus factory is only 7 miles away from where I live.
We had two punters who drank at our local pub, one of which had ordered an Elise, so the other chap organised a pub group outing for us to have a look around the factory and the other chap could see his car on the production line. He was allowed into the paint shop where his car was at the time of the visit, apparently there was a minor flaw in the paintwork... "microscopic" he said.
It was a very interesting day out, although we were not allowed to take any pictures as there was a lot of cars from different manufactures there having 'special work' done to them... The guy who took us around kept saying "you haven't seen that, or that, or that!" etc...
A small collection of Formula one cars from their last season, the burgundy/deep red Esprit from the Bond film 'For Your Eyes Only' and a Lotus Cortina handed back to the factory from the Metropolitan Police after it was used in the great rain robbery...
A nice day out
