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DBX is hardly a huge success story either:ROFLMAO:

Ian Callum is indeed the design giant of our era. However F pace is more of a adaptation from Jag's sedan line ie XE and XF, not the F type of that time. Aston Martin DBX is my prime example of good execution in adaptation of SUV from sports car design. However lotus DNA is too oriented around...

Eletre's configurator is so much better than that of Emiras. Now I'm envy.

Well for a suv there is no way to directly apply design philosophy of a sports car but to adapt and appropriate. In the case of Eletre I think it needs a metalic color with significant travel to show the pinch and curve on surfaces. For these curves are there to hide the fact it's still a huge...

As someone who saw the official renders in the private event all I can say is just wait for the official review. Then decide for your own.

Hi everyone as today I was rewatching Harry's Emira video I noticed that mystic new key design was right on the design studio‘s board： Yes it's just several work in progress design proposals but I believe one of them will become the final Emira key design. It also suggests the previously...

What's interesting to me is every car that uses an AMG engine（Paganis & Aston Martins）comes with just a Mecedes key wraped in their respective branding shell. You can see clearly from how buttons are arranged. So if Emira got a original design key with the i4 AMG engine it will be a first.

Chinese market i4 FE will have 405hp yes. This has long been published and talked about on this forum already. Reason is we don't get the v6 here due to prohibitively high import tax for ICE cars with larger displacement. Whether other places get the 405hp i4 FE is unknown for now. Plate mount...

Just out of curiosity is there a common practice regarding these type of “buying new car sight unseen” situation? As it’s a first time for me. I can’t seem to recall coming across official photo shoot of all colors by car makers elsewhere. What I saw was either printed vouchers, configurator...

Who'd have thought the one thing engineers at Lotus, a world renowned sports car brand and engineering solution provider, struggled the most, is a seat?:D

Made some adjustment with exposure and color balance, based on the senca blue car behind. Also added the black pack for easy visualization;)

One interesting detail I’d like to share is the first time I walked into my local lotus showroom, I gasped at how flat & beige the nimbus planform was. The sales assistant immediately addressed my concern by covering the spotlight pointing towards the planform then shine his phone’s torch at it...

Yes but not after 458, thus my point. It became more and more fussy as they keeps adding styling details over it till it became a over complicated mess that F8 is.

I think ever since Ferrari parted their ways with pinnefarina their design went down hill, starting I dare say, with la ferrari. Although stunning looking it lacks the eternal elegance compared to Enzo and F50. However the worst offender is no doubt F8 tributo which to me is a twisted 488 trying...

Emira’s predecessor, Evora fits your description very well, other example including koenigsegg gemera and old Ferraris including 308GT4 and Mondial.

Just try replacing those complicated thick factory seats with some recaros and you'll be saving at least 50kgs.

Maybe because it looks better? ;)Come on even lotus admits this by altering the show car by themself. Production car's ride height is always a compromise between looking good and not scraping everywhere. With that said, I certainly appericate the expertise and effort went into setting the...

Can you please point me to a source? My understanding is they will ride the same, FE and base, as no pack involving ride height were mentioned anywhere and putting spacers on from factory for an package or special edition is almost never heard of. On the other hand putting spacers and shorter...

The blue show car is lowered and with at least 5mm spacers each corner. The white 007 car, same as the dark grey dynamic prototype car touring around the world, are how the production cars will be like. Thus this topic.

Same here, although I fit inside Evora GT410 no problem however my eyesight was directly inline with the visors. BTW GT410 comes with manual bucket seats! So if it's that plus another 20cm for the motors it'll be unbearable for me. I have recaro RI-Ds in my current bmw and they are way more...

It bugs me as well and after learning how much effort went into setting up the suspension geometry I'm even more torn between looks and riding right. I surely hope there will be factory lowering option from lotus, even if they were just rebranded & overpriced items!

Once I noticed the uneven shut line between front bumper and the bonnet I cannot unsee it:ROFLMAO: I’m sure it’ll be ironed out in the production models.

Yes it’s what I saw at the event. Mind that these patent images always renders the car dull and flat. Real thing will be much nicer.

I thought interior design & quality is pretty much a “see for yourself” deal with all the photos and road shows around the world？Yes production spec digital cluster and user interface will be new and worth reviewing but I'm more interested in how the car drives and how it compares to 718 as...

I've only driven 911s（both 991 and 992) that have adaptive dampers. To be honest they seems a bit pointless to me because they were like: modeA: not enough damping and the car has excessive movement even never stops on some road surfaces. modeB: Just right amount of damping but hard and...

Ok I may be adding insult to injury here but it’s not my intention. I actually feel I’m being treated quite ok by the Chinese lotus people. Since the order we (at least the early adopters) have received multiple gifts including pins, some gasoline themed perfumes, a aluminum zippo with emira...

Well most peculiar thing happens just now.😓 As I still have doubts of it's authenticity I googled and this came up in a Chinese online dealing site: They are selling them here...

It was fowarded to my by a friend. He saw it somewhere on Chinese social media.

Sorry to dig up an older tread but just came across this today and was wondering if this looks legit?

Nothing escapes your eye TomE🤣 Yes I was approached by lotus people and asked nicely to remove my sketch. They seems cool and thanked me for my enthusiasm. So I guess nothing of a big deal. Global reveal should be in April I was told. Thanks for asking I really appreciate that!

Well last question first yes THERE ARE patent laws in China.😅 With some exception but I think collectively Chinese market lost its appetite for cars with straight up bootleg design long time ago. If you google zeeker, xpeng p7, Nio ET7 and Li One you can have a better idea of Chinese EV...

It’s not type132 but zeeker001’s interior, another sub brand from the same Geely group. They may have some similarity in their chassis but zeeker never had the 800v architecture. Type132 did have a stuck on screen of similar size BUT it’s automatically tilted so it sits inline with interior...