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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?

Some good news to report on the infotainment system post software updates received at my annual service. Lotus seems to have addressed the Android Auto random disconnect issues (maybe combined w/Android Auto updates). I've only had a few drives since my dealer updated the software, but the...

I have the SD card attached to USB2 and it picks right back up without me having to do anything. Dare to dream, Lotus has finally gotten their tech up to 2010 standards!

Some good news to report on the infotainment system post software updates received at my annual service. Lotus seems to have addressed the issues associated with playing music via an SD card. It now seems to keep the previous index and more importantly you can listen to music right away (it...

Some good news to report on the infotainment system post updates. It's only been a few short drives so far, but my Android Auto wireless disconnects seem to have gone away. Lotus also seems to have addressed the issues associated with playing music via a locally attached SD card. Previous...

My Samsung Galaxy S24 was experiencing this exact issue w/my Emira, very frustrating to say the least. I ended up using a relatively standard USB-C to USB-B cable (Anker brand) connected into the armrest storage port........zero disconnects with the tether. I just had my annual service...

I had asked them if any campaigns were available when I dropped off the car, to which they replied they'd let me know. About an hour later I was texted there were campaigns available and they proceeded to do them (I was good with that). What I wasn't so thrilled about was the utter lack of...

I have a FE V6 manual. Elsewhere on the paperwork is a reference to 25144 and I took that as their goofy way of putting the date Year/Day/Month since today is April 14th 2025. Applying that logic to 25143, maybe that is when the campaigns were released?

They unfortunately couldn't have been more vague about everything........ Attached pic of my service recipient w/descriptions of the DIM and CEM updates:

At my annual service (4/14/25) my dealer performed DIM (Driver Information Module) and CEM (Central Electronics Module) updates. They indicated these were newer campaigns, but of course had zero information regarding what these updates actually addressed. Here's hoping that some of my Android...

Two, lucky dog I had a difficult time just getting one! I didn't receive my tender when I picked up my car back in June and was told it would come later. Fast forward to October, I went back in person to the dealer after being ghosted via email twice and finally got one. I had to convince the...

Direct link to the @Nova delivery tracker: https://www.emiraforum.com/threads/usa-canada-delivery-thread.2183/page-513#post-124216 Shout out to Nova, still one of my favorite moments of this entire Emira experience was seeing my VIN on his list!

Toyota board room>>>>>Yeah sure, let's keep an engine factory line going just for all of those Lotus V6 sales....LOL In all seriousness who actually knows what their long term plans are now, I certainly don't. The Lotus pivot to all an eclectic Emira replacement is clearly being rethought...

It has been widely reported that Toyota is no longer making this engine. Even if this is the Emira configuration highest in demand, Toyota is simply done and won't make more. In the end the number of V6 Emiras for Lotus to sell is dependent on how many of these engines have been stashed away...

I have an SD card with 30GB plus of music connected via USB within the armrest console. Everything works, but the Emira player sure could be better. The largest issue is that it takes 4 to 5 minutes each and every time you start the car for the built in player to index the files. This...

Whoa, so glad I didn't wait for the base!

End of the V6, meaning end of the manual option, makes sense based on Toyota no longer manufacturing this engine for model year 2025. Does anyone know how many base model V6 Emiras have made it out of the factory to date? https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a45836319/2025-toyota-camry-v6-dead/

End of the V6, meaning end of the manual option, makes sense based on Toyota no longer manufacturing this engine for model year 2025. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a45836319/2025-toyota-camry-v6-dead/ No more I4 doesn't make any sense at all, what engine are they planning on using if the...

Something removal like this would be ideal for road trips, nice job! Would love to hear and see more about how you created these. Any chance you'll be creating/selling more down the road?

Ironically I've never had a disconnect at any toll station with iPass/EZpass here in Chicagoland. I have noticed that within the 5 minutes after starting up the Emira consistently results in a prolonged disconnect. I get in the car, everything is working great for a few minutes and then boom...

I have a Samsung S24 which randomly disconnects on me in my Emira, the only "solution" so far has been to connect via USB. A few months back I was in Europe for 3 weeks and rented a Mercedes.....ZERO AA disconnects in well over 2,000 km of driving. Same Samsung phone yet totally different...

The Eletre looks pretty good in person, even has a well done interior. When it was a roughly $110K to $140K car it wasn't the worst deal in the world for something relatively unique. With the effect of 100% tariffs on the pricing, it'll be impossible to move these things. The Eletre R 280...

I have to agree with you that the red on red isn't ideal. Refinishing to yellow is interesting, do you think you could achieve the proper shade and would the longevity be there? Any idea how much OEM replacements would be?

VERY cool project, I'll be following for sure! While this secondary device is directly plugged in via USB, do you anticipate that bluetooth for phone calls would continue working?

I found that my standard US based carry on bags required me to have both seats moved up a bit. With a pair of European spec carry on bags (they are a little narrower at 13.5 x 7.5 x 21 inches) they fit like a glove!