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Thanks for the reply, will do as per my reply to Tom and get a broker to quote. Thanks for the info on Equity Red Star, knowing a company that will already cover gives me a good headstart.

Thanks Tom, I haven't tried these, but will do, thanks for the suggestion. I was really thinking that if the usual household name type car insurers covered the manual (which they all do) it shouldn't be too far a stretch to get the auto covered. One thing I did find out is that all the big name...

Has anyone in the checkout process for a V6 auto managed to arrange insurance? I have spent the afternoon ringing round and despite explaining multiple times that the auto is the same spec as the manual, none of the insurers have it listed and will not quote. The only company that quoted...

Including the Mayor it seems, with all the charging schemes and road restrictions that you have to put up with.

Yes, I will post in the journal threads with impressions. If it is anything like my Evora 410 Sport auto, I will be more than happy - that car sounded awesome! Best part was the auto blip on the downshifts.

Adding my wife on always brings the price down, even on my runabout 2015 Ford Fiesta (was the grand sum of £105 fully comp this year for the 2 of us!). There is only a 3 year gap with me at 59 and wife at 56. If my wife was 20, that would probably turn more heads than the Emira and the cost of...

Question for the V6 auto folk that have checked out. Are you going for factory collection, dealer collection or home delivery. I am home delivery - I wonder if that has any bearing on speed of delivery? They haven't sent an invoice yet and now the 4 day weekend has begun! No doubt a scramble...

Checkout 23/3/23 ID check 28/3/23 Retention cert for reg 30/3/23

Just had the call - my car will be delivered next Friday (14/4/23) !! Am I the first V6 auto in the UK? Got the call @ 14:38 this afternoon. Just need to pay for it - can anyone lend me any money! I can't belive it 'Soon' is nearly here

So the limit could be on the receiving side, I think someone has mentioned this on here somewhere. For my bank, I can transfer £25K per day from my app, but if I call into the bank branch, this increases to £250K (with a lot of questions asked). But that is no good if there is a limit on the...

Probably not as they are using a payments processing provider called Stripe which is often used on ecommerce sites for retailing and subscriptions etc. for much smaler amounts in the UK. I expect that Lotus will have chosen the most cost effective (for them) choice as the Stripe pricing...

What doesn't make sense is that if I don't include my wife on the policy (she won't ever drive it unless there was some emergency) the premium just for me with the same insurer is an exta £80 at £410. As someone else mentioned, it seems postcode has a lot to do with it. Since I moved to my...

Important update for anyone looking for V6 FE auto insurance (UK specific) – part 2 (see post #202 this thread for part 1) More positive news to report Direct Line Select has advised that their underwriters have confirmed that there is no material difference from a risk perspective between the...

Important update for anyone looking for V6 FE auto insurance (UK specific) I have some good news - I have confirmation that the V6 FE auto does has Type Approval in the UK. This has been officially confirmed to me today by Thatcham, I am enormously grateful to them for their assistance to...

I hope there will be a video of your adventures!

As per my post #191 above, don't set your expectations too high that Lotus will be of any help, I found them no help whatsoever when I contacted them last week. It is an interesting situation for those of us in the checkout process. We have agreed to insure the car as it is a legal requirement...

Another one from my Youtube feed this morning. It is in Portugese, but the Youtube subtitle translation delivers some often amusing results. It correctly interprets the exhaust sound as music! Very well shot video.

In my Youtube feed tonight. Video shows installation of PPF and associated prep. I can't believe how bad the paintwork was with swirls and holograms, I wonder how it ended up in such bad shape?

For anyone waiting for a UK V6 auto - I have been trying to get to the bottom of the 'missing insurance' for the automatic cars. I had a web chat earlier with LCC and asked when I would be able to get quotes. Their reply was that they register the cars the day before delivery and then you will...

Although I need auto, best quote for manual was £330 with RAC via confused .com full NCD, 8,000 miles pa, age 59 + wife 56, parked on drive

Does anyone know the transfer limit if you are paying cash? I believe that they use Stripe to process payments and I am sure that it has been mentioned that there is a transfer limit on the receiving side. I am aware that there is a limit on the sending side if you do the transfer through online...

I commented on the video to say that I hoped my V6 auto was somewhere in the car park and he replied "About 25% of the cars were autos and 25% left hand drive"

I would recommend trying confused.com & comparethemarket. Once you have input your details, you can 'tweak' the quotes. Adding a partner can make a big difference. Although my wife doesn't drive whatever sports car is on the drive, it always reduces the premiums when I add her to the policy (I...

Email just received for my retention certificate. Strangely, it went to spam despite the Lotus email address being in my address book and having received all other emails without this happening, so keep an eye on your spam folder!

Still no insurance quotes on confused for the UK V6 auto, has anyone made any enquiries with brokers direct and if so what are they saying? For those of us going through checkout we have already agreed to have insurance in place for pickup/delivery but this is tricky if we can't get quotes!

Just came up in my Youtube feed - have a look at timestamp 1:48 - it looks like they are getting plenty of cars built.

Yes, I'll post a report and include a comparison to the Alpine and also my Evora 410 Sport which was also auto. I sold the Alpine about 3 weeks ago. The Alpine dealer in Manchester offered me the best price for it and it diappeared from their website within a week, so I assume they sold it...

Finish line email has just arrived and it says the next step is to arrange a delivery date. I expect that they must work payment back from the delivery date (either 7 or 14 days before perhaps). Plus, I expect they will need my paperwork for my registration transfer at some point.

I got some manual quotes from Confused recently to check anticipated figures and my best price was RAC at £335 (age 59, 8,000 miles and 20+ years NCB. Car kept outside on drive, CW12 postcode).

Checkout was last Thurs mid afternoon and ID check was about 11:30 this morning

Identity check complete! The race to be 1st auto delivery continues. Anyone managed to get an insurance quote yet? Hope I don't pay for the car and then find out it is £10K to insure it:ROFLMAO:

I am jealous. Nothing to do with the car, but the fact that you can stand around in T-shirts as the sun sets. You would freeze to death in the UK! It is supposed to be spring but it is still freezing cold. The sun was out today, but the warmth from it was like having a candle lit 10 yards away...

Thanks Tom, I think the forum has kept most of us going over the last (nearly) 2 years, thank you for all your effort in moderating the forum as some of us continually tested the boundaries of some topics! The forum will not be the same without me posting about auto Type Approval and insurance...

The Emira looks very at home in the London supercar scene - see timestamp 4:25

Checkout complete for me! The race is on, who will get their car first?

I think it must be, perhaps just waiting for Thatcham to load the details onto the master databases for the insurers and then you will be able to get quotes.

Congratulations (hope mine is soon!) Have you managed to get an insurance quote for the auto? Still nothing available on the insurance comaprison sites.

Can you pay the whole balance in one go? Or do Stripe have an upper payment limit? I appreciate you are limited by what you can pay online from your bank, but my bank (Lloyds) allow transfers of up to £250K in branch, but that is no help if the receiving account has a limit.

Yes, £2,660 to tax and register it, plus don't forget delivery charges (on the road costs) of £1,045 to cover delivery, preparation, valeting and your first tank of fuel. This is for home or dealer delivery. Collection from the factory is an extra £195 (I think) as this includes a factory tour...

I am expecting first year tax to be £2,605 plus registration fee of £55. Subsquent years will be base tax of £180 plus luxury car tax of £390 per year for the first 5 years (already factored in the first year), prices are effective 1/4/23. Prices subject to increase from April 2024 in line with...