Recent content by Bulls-Vivid-Red

I'm in Chicago and got mine from the only nearby Lotus dealer, Glenview Luxury Imports. The overall dealer experience has been less than great, including my recent 1 year service in which the world's dirtiest service tech blackened both of my seats (straight up oil smears on the one seat). At...

FWIW my car had similar paint issues when I picked it up from the dealer last year. The dealer had clearly preformed an absolute crap buff job and there was white buffing compound leftover in most of the cracks/crevices of the car. Luckily all of the white came off relatively easily, just took...

That is indeed how mine is working as well if I attach my phone with Android Auto. If I don't attach my phone I can press the physical play button and it resumes the last song playing, otherwise I need to manually select USB. Overall it's much better than it was (remembers last song and no 5...

I spent some time yesterday with some songs which are well known to me and could not hear a difference......even at unreasonably loud volume levels. I can't say I have perfect ears these days, but I assume any differences would be relatively obvious. FWIW, I was paranoid if the car was...

To be 100% clear here both of the 2025 options, V6 and I4, now have the grills?

Totally agree that it's the gearbox. Car and Driver only measured a 34lbs difference in weight between V6/I4, which obviously wouldn't be nearly enough to explain the performance difference.

Hethel, Norfolk.....JK If you look at the last pic the license plate holder says Salt Lake City

If only Lotus could have gotten a different sugar daddy...... The Arabs backing McLaren are not only a bottomless source of cash, they more importantly are letting McLaren be themselves. Forseven is planning on leveraging McLaren's expertise to make their other car brands better instead of...

I'm linking one of my favorite car blogs which is written buy a guy who not only owns a number of supercars but is a financial expert. He always does a great job of breaking down annual/quarterly reports to get past all of the BS. His articles on Aston Martin in particular have been amazing...

$1,173 for an oil change........wow, makes me feel much better for having to pay $709 out the door for my own 1 year service!

Whoa I hadn't heard of anyone with a nonrefundable deposit, are you sure that's the case? Even people paying dealer markups didn't hand over that cash until the actual delivery of the car. How much of your money are they holding? I canceled a deposit I had with a dealer in order to get my car...

Bankruptcy or V8, which will come first........ "Investigation" is far from an official announcement stage, let alone actual production. Hell, I'm still waiting for Lotus to deliver these babies: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/lotus-concept-lineup-photos/

I have over 30GB of music on an SD card and each and every time I started the car it would have to index everything from scratch. While it was performing this task for roughly 5 minutes there would be nothing for me to select, just had to sit and wait until completion or go to Android Auto)...

Dealer implied very recently, but of course provided zero evidence of when. Does anyone know how to lookup what specific software versions are installed/running?