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One problem is, you've got to get the car serviced as well. If you call the dealer on this totally unethical BS then what kind of service and warranty support will you get from them in the future?

In standard setup, the Emira does not scrape easily compared with most sports cars. For example, my BMW 1M scrapes much more easily and so did my 997 GTS.

Do you mean because of capacity constraints or because of limited demand? AFAIK, they are already manufacturing ~4,500 a year.

They work fine for a small coffee or a soft drink can.

Give me a break. They will still be selling ICE cars in the USA for the next 5-10 years. Can you imagine if they then told people they couldn't drive their almost new cars. Never going to happen.

The root cause is still not clear to me. There are several possibilities: 1. Moist air is getting trapped in the resin during Teijin Automotive's compression-molding process. This would be a manufacturing fault, though it could potentially be addressed if Lotus bakes the panels before...

My bet is that weak sales and slow delivery of Electre and Emeya is the fundamental problem. Emira doesn't even factor in this. Lotus Technology is being spruiked as a luxury EV brand and Lotus Motors isn't part of the initial SPAC (they have an option to acquire it).

11 trips! Jesus. I'd be furious.

If it's the color you love then choose it, but accept that you will get people asking about your Ferrari and you will probably get a bit of the "couldn't you afford the real thing?" stuff too. In certain countries, there's a stigma attached to brands like Ferrari or Lambo . . some people will...

No, it doesn't (but that is Magma Red, not Vivid Red).

I wouldn't rush your decision. Out of the thousands of Emiras now built, there have only been paint bubble issues on a handful and they were almost all very early production cars.

Ditto. Almost at the one year mark, several thousand km driven, no issues at all.

Do you think the Linco buttons look/feel higher quality than the Lotus ones (which I've also thought look cheap)?

Updated: Group buy #2: 1. bif (herringbone/gloss) 2. Tony g (herringbone/gloss) 3. scarzie (herringbone/gloss) 4. Peeltone (herringbone/gloss) 5. GlynV6 (twill/matte) 6. Hapkin (twill/gloss) 7. LIQUIX (gloss/herringbone) 8. Nick in Sydney (twill/matte) I'm in for the twill matte. Have...

Ditto, I'm interested in coming into the second ten but would love to see a photo of matt finish twill first

Would it be possible to post a few photos of the different options? I found the twill gloss on your website but couldn't see the herringbone or what the matt options look like. Thanks!

That sucks, sorry to hear it. You seem to have been exceptionally unlucky with your Emira, and I wonder if this was partly because yours was one of the earliest cars — you were a bit of a guinea pig for the rest of us. I feel almost guilty saying that I've had mine for about six months and...

Yes and No. Remember, Lotus Motors is not part of the Lotus Technology SPAC (though they have an option to acquire it later and worldwide rights to distribute its cars). The NASDAQ-listed Lotus business will be 100% luxury EV, but they've allowed deliberate flexibility for Lotus Motors to...

Sorry, black roof. You're disqualified. :D

After 12+ months of running the new production lines you'd be shocked and disappointed if they hadn't found a way to achieve 10%+ labour efficiency.

Agree, it looks fantastic and I frequently get positive comments from people. However, I chose my spec before Harry chose his, so I think it should actually be called Nick's spec :D

Australia didn't get DAB or inbuilt GPS maps . . . with no explanation or warning from Lotus. We got CarPlay.

Strange that you don't have Apple Carplay. We definitely have it in Australia.

Ouch! Sorry to see that.

Do you keep the car on a trickle charger when not in use for more than a few days?

Window stickers (also called Moroney stickers) are an American thing. They were created by an act of Congress in 1958 to stop dealers from inflating the MSRP and lying about the size of the discount they were offering to consumers. I'm not aware of any other countries that provide them.

Probably just rotating out the vehicles. Emira will be back in a couple of days. Sometimes a banana is just a banana, not everything has to have meaning.

Yes, agree. I wondered whether the circles are glue delaminating underneath or something similar. I actually quite like the grain.

Here's another photo of my passenger door trim. Hopefully you can see the very high amount of grain and the circular areas along the bottom edge. Does everyone else have "perfect leather trim" or does anyone else have these kind of variations?

The leather trim along the top of my driver's door (second photo) is very even and consistent and wouldn't look out a place in a Porsche. But the trim on my passenger door is much more grainy and "textured" and has at least two visible circular areas where it looks like the grain has been...

Can't help but feel it's a mildly tweaked copy of the Porsche Taycan. The Lotus designers barely bothered to change it.

Stunning. Since I've also got the "Harry spec" in years to come I will claim they were photos of my car! :D

I don't mind a logo or even the brand name like Lotus or Porsche, but I've never understood why we want our cars to be covered in information like the specific model name, its engine size, the trim level, the fact it has a turbo charger and other detail. It's just marketing and pure social...

The English usually "clip" the ham and don't fully pronounce it. So it's Notting'em not Nottingham. And the same with Caterham . . . usually pronounced Kay'trem