Lotus has a new Luxury Touring Pack Option for the Europa S, aimed at answering criticism that the GT was too sparsely specified to the deserve the GT moniker.
The option dresses the interior in saddle tan leather, chocolate coloured leather and brown carpets.
The touring pack components such as the steering column shroud, dash top, instrument and ventilation binnacles, and sill covers with four hides of soft high-grade saddle tan coloured and chocolate coloured leather, compared to the standard Europa S which uses lightweight composite components. Supportive sports seats are fitted -- also clad in saddle tan and chocolate coloured leather in a stripe pattern. Safety critical composite components such as the passenger airbag door are coated in a high-tech soft-to-the-touch material. An engine start button and a solid Walnut and Tulip wood gearknob finish off the interior package.
The touring pack covers the boot with brown carpet covering the whole of the boot area including the battery cover, a saddle tan coloured leather trimmed tailgate inner, luggage straps to prevent luggage from moving in the boot -- Lotus said it still expects a laden Europa S to be driven hard -- and a saddle tan coloured leather oddment bag which is fixed to the boot compartment.
Exterior additions include tinted rear and rear three-quarter glass, body coloured front driving lamp surrounds, side air-intake surrounds and roof air-outlet grill. All other exterior grilles such as the front radiator grilles and the rear light grille surrounds are coloured silver.
The Norfolk company said the added luxuries add little weight to the Europa S so the effect on performance is minimal.
The Luxury Touring Pack Option is available on the Lotus Europa S from April 2007, costing £1,250.
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