25 Years of Elise • A Lotus owner portrait film celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Lotus Elise

Filmed during the 2020 lockdown, before Lotus announced it was ending production of the Elise and before the Final Edition was a twinkle in Jon's eye!
This mini-doc film was commissioned by ‪@grouplotus‬, filmed and produced by ‪@wildricefilms3464‬ & Seadog Productions, and explored Jon's journey from a young Lotus dreamer to the owner of his first Elise - a carbon grey 220 Cup.
Director of Photography - Rich Davies
Producer - Grace Garvin
Director - Liberty Smith
Production Company - Wild Rice Films

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Beautiful car😍

[@Henders72]

This will resonate with many people, the freedom of drive nowhere just to explore, loved it.

[@OneElevenCars]

Thanks Mark. It’s about the car, and yet it’s not always about the car.

[@TheOrangeEliseCup250]

So pride to belong to the 111cars community after watching this short movie. There is a part of all of us inside👍👏

[@simonwalker7957]

Tastefully done. Pretty much mirrors my experience too and I’m 61. Indeed I only said to my wife a couple of weeks back “I still can’t believe I own a Lotus!“ even after 23 years of driving my mk1 titanium, it brought a lump to my throat. After a 41 year hiatus, I’m soon to take delivery of a Royal Enfield Classic 350 which bizarrely has an almost identical reg number, both start with R, followed by a 7 and end with the same 3 letters; it was clearly meant to be..

[@OneElevenCars]

Fantastic to hear Simon. You can never take it for granted can you? We’re very lucky!

[@DrPittenstein]

Fab film, great to watch.

[@OneElevenCars]

Thanks so much, was great to film.

[@cahillroberts6783]

Great short film 👍🏻

[@tonycourt1308]

An excellent film and amazing scenery, you're lucky to have such a beautiful playground in your backyard!
As always an exceptional job in capturing the essence of owning and driving our cars 👏👏

[@jonathanknight8251]

Lovely short film. It conveyed much more than numbers could. Cheers to dad

[@OneElevenCars]

Definitely, ownership can be so much more than you think.

[@md-one11]

Nice vidéo. 😁

[@peterthompson9854]

Nice film Jon. Beautiful last shot.

[@OneElevenCars]

Thanks Peter!