WOW looks awesome....... ( I better not use the "WOW" word here too often......, or I might get flamed )


AMAZING looks awesome.

 

Glad to finally see some other colors, but Lotus needs to start giving us the whole palette and not just bread crumbs!!

 

Wow, the Emira look huge for the Asian consumers. Biggest Lotus in the history of Lotus

 

Nice spot, @porterror! (Also, I just realized your name is probably "port error", whereas I've been reading it as "por terror" this whole time 😆). Where did you find this shot?

 

it's kinda both. old hacker alias hah from the 90s. Popped up on a FB lotus group.

 

Are those the first V-spoke forged wheels?

 

Yup, top choice but w/o Black Pack and with a red interior!

 

I was with you until I saw this...

 

 

Hethel Yellow looks a lot like Norfolk Mustard which was the color of my first Lotus, the M100.

 

I've been steadily improving and refining the renders so they're getting pretty close to the real thing. I don't have their night scene lighting, but if you look at the top of the hood, I think this is pretty close when it's out in the sun.

 

Mandatory edit for the non-black pack people...

 

^^ Nice work! That's a tricky edit from black.

 

@Eagle7 Thank you once again for the great renders. I agree your accuracy has only been getting better and better!

After seeing the real car and 3D car side-by-side, though, my eye still felt like the 3D car's colours needed to be just a bit more uniform, and so I made a quick edit to see the difference:

 

The smoothness of the coloring will depend on the light source. The pictures of the yellow car in China are not daylight with global illumination. We don't even know the color temperature of the light but it's probably not daylight white, so that will affect the color on the car. What you did looks good however, and I think anyone ordering Hethel will be pleased with the car in that color.

 

Now we can see the production quality inside and out!

 

from what I see it appears lotus is sending more colors with better build quality to China since Geely owns lotus . They must feel that market will be their bread and butter. one in all yellow and one with black pack

 

They don't actually own Lotus, but they're a major investor, so they do have a stake in how things are going there. The gray car we've all seen was literally the first running car they put together, so it's virtually a prototype as opposed to a production car. The non-running blue car was basically a studio model assembled with a lot of 3D printed parts; again, not a production car. The blue and now yellow car we've seen in China, are in fact off the production line so that's why they look like they're off the production line. Considering how much money Geely invested into the company, it's perfectly understandable that they would be getting examples of what their investment has produced. This is to validate the investment as being worthwhile, and encourage their investors to continue with the investment. Of course China is going to be an important market, simply because of the sheer size of it, but that doesn't mean Lotus is shorting everybody else. We'll get to see all the colors on cars, we'll get to see the press reviews from the press cars, and soon enough we'll get to read the excited reports of the first few lucky ones to begin receiving their cars. Once that happens, what we're going through now will quickly become a distant memory. Patience Padawan; patience.

 

You've really done some excellent renderings Eagle7! I think with the current paint offerings I would be HY/Tan with lower black pack, red calipers and would wrap the upper black pack that way it would be possible to easily revert to base color and add protection at same time. Now if they could only get the V-6 sound with the I-4......Who knows once additional colors are offered but I would probably lean towards white with similar config.

 

Thank you! This car is going to look really good in a pearl white.

 

more yellow!

 

Yellow is not a color I would consider, but what that shows me is how good it looks in a bright color.

 

Yellow has the least 'character' in person... it just felt flat (because of no flakes) and yet looks amazing on the car. This was my #2 choice color before seeing the disks in person. Now... I think it has to go back on the list, no? The yellow/black is such a classic color combo. Can't wait to see the rest of the colors.

 

wow look at the wheel / color / interior display like the C8 display that made its way around the USA

we are so lucky to see this prior to the next payment

 

wow look at the wheel / color / interior display like the C8 display that made its way around the USA

we are so lucky to see this prior to the next payment

Hallarious. China gets the big display tour with wheels displayed etc.

Surprised no one picked up On the ADAS sensor

 

Isn't that the plate plinth? The blue car seems to have what looks to be a plate there.

I assume if they plan on using parts from the Volvo bin, the ADAS would be something near the rearview mirror mount like this (hopefully much smaller):

This can sort of be inferred from the configurator views:

 

My initial thoughts that it was ADAS. I would be surprised if Lotus recommended a plate in front of the air flow - defeats all the wind tunnel tests. Usually the plate mount is lower.

 

What engine? Can we get pics of wheel display and interior shots?

 

Ever think we got the 1st demo car, and China got the next one, albeit in a different color. Just like the blue one floating around....Sheesh so much bullshit and conspiracy idiocy. some of the newbs are fn idiots.

 

Lol it's been an interesting ride so far, hasn't it.

It looks like the running gray car was a prototype demo as opposed to a production demo, which is what we seem to be seeing showing up in China right now. Both the Seneca and Hethel cars in China look to be i4 models, but I can't tell if they run or not. My guess is they probably do since they both look like they sit at the correct height, which means they don't have the heavy batteries in them like the original Seneca studio model without the engine we've seen. That was necessary to be able to move the car.

They're probably in the early production testing and validation phase but it looks like things are moving along. If they deliver on showing cars in all the colors next month, that will be a good sign.

 

If they deliver on showing cars in all the colors next month, that will be a good sign

Oooooh. If Lotus do NOT show us all the cars, in all the colors, in January, then they will get a crap load of anger aimed at them. Also, if they do show us the cars but then do not allow us to change color without being shoved down the queue then what is the point. Grr.

 

Yellow in video:

 

The "EMBER" brake calipers look like an interesting option. That's something new that I haven't seen anywhere else.