We wanted to recapture that sense of purity, but not to do a kind of pastiche of an Esprit, because that doesn't make any sense. So it's more about the spirit of that car, the logic of the design and how controlled it is in the execution.
Instead, Lotus did what it is best known for and, in the apocryphal words of founder Colin Chapman, it 'simplified, then added lightness.'
There's been this period of maximalism, and people having to do one-upmanship and go above, above, above. And I think we've reached that.
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