I know, the 14K price break on the LS left me with a choice between cashmere or white, so I skipped the white and got cashmere (I guess I could have waited a while, scraped and scrounged for the 14K and got red or something) and you know I do like red, and grey, and that nice green too, but not enough to spend 14 thousand dollars to get the next year car in one of those colors.
When I went Lotus shopping over about 10 weeks there was a white S1 at the cost of a 'service' for a Ferrari, or there was a frame off resto yellow S1 at a cost more than I paid for the LS new, Oh, there was a well used and likely similar condition red S2 at double the price of the 'white' S1. So, I ended up with a white S1 with 38k on it and matching engine numbers. I normally hate white, but don't mind so much with this Esprit.