Couple of years back I sold my black/tan 1999 and am interested in tracking it down. Last known area was Ashville, NC. Easy to spot as it now has center exit exhaust, updated round tailights (not my doing), newer mesh style 2002+ wheels, limited slip, may even have the 5-point harnesses I installed, the dash face plate is carbon fibre, the intake manifold and valve covers are powdercoated red, and the shift knob is combo black leather and aluminum with Lotus logo atop.
I too, sold my V8 to a guy in NC. I appreciate the "not my doing" part, as the Esprit was always meant to wear the rectangular lights. It was silly of Lotus to Elise-itize it. Switching tail light styles was more necessary than silly. It had more to do with lack of continued availability of the old Toyota-sourced, rectangular lights. No other off-the shelf light assemblies would have exactly filled the space that was originally sculpted around the Toyota lights, so some change was inevitable. Using the Elise lights along with a fiberglass filler panel allowed Lotus to bring the taillight source in-house and avoid putting themselves at the goodwill of outside source again. It also allowed them to update the aging Esprit design...
1) with a minimal, in-house tooling investment in a model that was at the end of it's production life and could never amortize a large tooling cost reasonably, and...
2) and blending in elements of the then-current, modern corporate style/ identity.
The only incandescent lights on my Evora are the license plate and the interior dome light. It's all LED/HID.I will come to accept technology one day. You could change those out to LED too. Or maybe, to those spiral CFLs.
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