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I agree with @squish that the majority of negative comments towards builds (which aren't many) have been very targeted towards the automatics. Considering the extra wait they're enduring, we should be giving them sympathy and not lectures. That being said, I believe the negative comments...

This is a strange article in that he barely goes into any actual detail to compare/contrast the two vehicles in support of his premise. For example he vaguely points out that the Emeya is too heavy at 2.5-tonne, but than fails to mention how that compares to the Polestar. Another example, the...

@Gooner your correct, a number of the Lotus websites in various countries still display the paint as being covered for 5 years. What is consistent with other areas of Lotus quality control is that many refer to the Eletre instead of the Emira......this despite being on pages specifically for...

I can confirm that changing tracks via the steering wheel buttons while playing songs on an Android Auto app works great. I believe it's safe to assume that it would work the same for CarPlay too.

Pretty amazing that list price $70K Fiskers can't sell, even with 60% off discounts attached! At least the Emira is far more analog mechanically speaking than the Fisker and it's cloud connected "features" that will cease working.

I haven't had my car long, but I have experienced a handful of times where the screen simply won't respond to any inputs for a few minutes. I have a USB stick with a large library of songs attached and at first attributed it to that being indexed......unfortunately it happened one more time...

Fellow vivid red owner here who also has experienced a few strange paint defect issues (mfg April 2024). I agree with the others on here that yours don't appear to be the same blistering issue being discussed for most of this thread......I don't believe mine was either. The most common cause...

Nova is right, the Taycan has sold nearly 2 to 1 vs the Panemera for the past 3 full years. Not a runaway sales champion, but also far from a total dud. As appealing as the 718 is to people on a Lotus Emira forum, it's the SUVs that have been printing the money for Porsche for years. They...

Car and Driver used to beat the crap out of WRXs and Evos, crazy launches at high RPMs to get those lazy turbos going. All of these magazines have been testing both 0-60 in addition to 1/4 mile times for all of their road tests for decades. I agree with you that they're not redline neutral...

I don't believe this is a case of the "media" entering into the test with a preconceived outcome of British=bad build quality. I've been a subscriber to Motor Trend, Car and Driver, Road & Track, and Automobile (RIP) for 30 years and I can count on one hand how many of the cars they had which...

I've been getting thumbs up from both cars and motorcycles, including one biker who zipped between cars on the highway to catch up and just to get a better look at the Emira! Overall reactions on the road have been amazing, waaaaay more than I ever expected!

I can empathize with people who have had their lives change, but why then still go through with the purchase? Financially it seems less than wise to take the depreciation hit associated with titling the car and driving it a few 100 miles.

So to be clear, to get past the default alphabetical order I'd need to add the track number to the title listed under the properties/details tab? Only 5000 plus files to update LOL! Stinks that it won't honor the track number when it's literally already part of the name of the file itself, not...

Between the auction websites and Autotrader, roughly a few dozen Emiras are either currently for sale or have already been resold. To be clear I'm not talking about dealers automatically placing an already spoken for new car on Autotrader. At this moment there are 17 Emiras on Autotrader with...

I have 40GB of music on a UBS-C 3.2 (exFAT), all artists and albums separated into folders and it takes roughly 3 minutes to index everything. The sorting within albums is seemingly alphabetical, but seems to ignore leading track numbers in the file names. It's absolutely ridiculous that the...

I had originally planned on just doing frontal PPF, but after discovering a scratch near the passenger side air intake I went for the full PPF (I left the rear bumper unwrapped due to a MFG defect). A single freaking drive on the highway back from the dealer and already a mark..... The only...

That look is absolutely fabulous! I was so torn between this spec and the vivid red I eventually moved forward with, I guess I couldn't have gone wrong with either choice!

Illinois here, car registered in Dupage county vs my Chicago place. I'm a long time Allstate guy, but in the end State Farm was by far and away the best deal going. Deductibles were all $500 with identical coverages, no home bundling here either. State Farm was such a good deal that I...

Well done sir! Sounds like I have some major catching up to do if I plan on having the highest mileage Emira in the States!

I wouldn't describe what I saw as "pinholes".....more like a red grain of salt stuck to the surface. They were so miniscule that I couldn't even photograph them with the PPF removed. I just went back through this entire thread and can say that what is on my car does not match any of the pics...

I LOVE hearing people are willing to put meaningful miles on their Emiras, do the road trip for sure! The number of 10 year old Ferraris with under 10K miles on them just makes me sad, WTF is the point of owning a fun car if you never drive the damn thing! Hey Nova sounds like you have a hell...

Heads up for any fellow vivid red owners out there. I had a defect near the rear driver side taillight where a paint bubble crumbled away. Underneath the bubble it appears the plastic bumper had a bit of a deformity.....so at least not color specific in this case. Second issue is that on my...

So some good news for most you on this thread. I've now checked this out in person and I don't believe these little bumps are the blistering issue. The bumps are so tiny that my 47 year old eyes had quite the time even seeing them. They are so slight, roughly the size of a grain of salt, that...

My Emira was a 5/26 Baltimore arrival, so 4/14 sounds about right.....I'll confirm for certain when I see the car in person tomorrow. In the meantime you can compare your VIN to mine SCCLEKAX0RHBxxxxx to see if they were close.

I'm so baffled at this point, I was there on Monday morning due to paint bubbling/crumbling on the rear bumper (posted earlier in this thread #268 and #277) and did not notice these. The installer swears that they did not see them during multiple inspections or during the pre-PPF prep...

So PPF place just called to say they found what appears to be 2 little bubbles on the driver side quarter panel. They at first thought it was something with the PPF they had just applied and so removed the PPF only to discover these babies. I'm stuck at work today, but will be heading out...

I'm back in town and was able to see things for myself and take my own higher resolution pictures. Good news is that after looking VERY closely this appears to be the only defect on the car. My eyes aren't what they used to be, but zoomed in there appears to be an indentation/deformity at the...

Thank you for pointing that out, so maybe I'm "lucky" and this is some other defect that isn't as bad as the blistering documented on this thread. Most manufactures use plastics for the front and rear bumper covers, so it makes sense that this may be a different material than the...

I picked up my car on 6/18/24 and unfortunately didn't notice a bubble near the rear driver side taillight. Two days later I dropped the car off for PPF/tinting and less than 15 minutes later the shop called me to let me know they discovered a bubble. Dealer says they'll take care of things...

"Really heavy parking lot speeds steering" is unfortunately all but guaranteed to be the steering pump issue. There simply should not be that dramatic of a difference in your steering effort based on speed. On the bright side of things you should be able to keep driving it until they get the...

On my PC no matter what I selected the configuration page defaulted to the i4 with no v6 option available (make sure to clear you browser cache or use incognito mode). Even more interesting is if you go to "SPECS" on the Emira model page, the FE V6 tile has a CONFIGURE button which now points...

So I must really plop myself in a bit too hard or something, cause roughly 1/3 of the rubber strip popped off on me yesterday! I'll be more self-aware moving forward, but if it pops off again I may just say screw it and take it off. Like I mentioned before the plastic seems beveled/rounded, at...

That's correct, not from the dealer as their costs were way over the top for PPF, ceramic tinting, and ceramic coating. Unfortunately I hit my first major snag with the car, as the people doing my frontal PPF/ceramic tinting/ceramic coating discovered a paint defect near my driver side...

I can't say that I've personally felt any of the ones which were clearly causing people here issues, but on my own car the edge felt rounded and not sharp at all.

Picked up my car earlier today and have now added the rubber strip to my seats. FWIW, the ridge of the plastic really did not feel sharp at all, but hey better safe than sorry I suppose.