{"id":92006,"date":"2024-08-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/?p=92006"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:24:42","slug":"seloc-editorial-chapman-bespoke-and-the-art-of-speccing-a-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/seloc-editorial-chapman-bespoke-and-the-art-of-speccing-a-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapman Bespoke and the art of speccing a Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapman Bespoke covers finishes and personal touches as well as one-off commissions. The fun part is picking something you still want to look at after the novelty wears off. Think about how the colour looks outside on a grey day, or whether a pale seat bolster will survive the way you climb in.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bb\/2025_Lotus_Emira_V6_in_Vivid_Red%2C_front_right.jpg\" alt=\"Lotus Emira V6 in Vivid Red\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><figcaption>Lotus Emira V6 in Vivid Red. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:2025_Lotus_Emira_V6_in_Vivid_Red%2C_front_right.jpg\">Mr.choppers \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On a used car, ask which bits were done by Lotus and which were added later. A specialist retrim can be lovely, but if the seller asks a premium for a factory interior, the build sheet should say so. Keep the paperwork with the service history.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph here shows a Vivid Red Emira V6. It\u2019s an illustration of the model, rather than a claim that the pictured car is a Chapman Bespoke commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bespoke paint is easy to admire. Factory paperwork is harder to replace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[937,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-news","category-seloc-editorial-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92065,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92006\/revisions\/92065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}