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Didn’t notice until I got it home. No doubt they’ll rectify it no problem: the emblems are stand-alone and can be swapped out quite easily by the looks of things.

Yes: picked it up yesterday.

:unsure: Maybe my car represents the exact moment in production where they switched the seat emblems from “Lotus” to “Emira” 🤣…

I’d much prefer if they were both the same…

Hey: it’s better than IN the water… https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15388858/cougar-ace-the-great-103-million-snafu-at-sea/

This is Magma Red, right? (If you have seen posts #11317, 11331, 11332, 11335, 11338 you’ll understand why I’m asking 😬).

I think Vivid Red is more Ferrari-like than Magma, but as I have already proven 50% of red-coloured-Lotus owners can’t even identify the colour of their own car 😬

Aw damn, you’re right! Well… that private little club was short lived 😜

I am continually baffled as to how anybody could have specced their car in any other way 🤣🤣

If your interior is tan, you’ve got pretty much the same spec as mine…

I’m going with PPF from the dealer’s installer: I haven’t been super impressed with places I’ve looked at around the area (although they’re not bad) and I just figure if the dealer has been using this guy for years I’ll lean on that. My date is soon though. Also: we might get a bit of snow this...

I don’t have my car yet, but there will be occasions (per the manual, “occasionally”) later in the break in period where I will consider paragraph 4 to be permission to hit redline from time to time. It seems to me that hitting 5500 occasionally at your current mileage is right on track...

I‘m not advocating thrashing the car in the first 1000 miles, and I intend to abide by what the owner’s manual indicates; however, it seems to me that the word “continuously” is being ignored, and people are concluding that engine speeds over 4000 RPM are verboten. This is not the case: On...

Congrats! That’s gorgeous. 👍🏼

And you have a complimentary footwell cargo net 😜. I rest my case… well, not just MY case… there are a bunch on here who have already pleaded, protested, and championed the same thing. As far as Lotus in Hethel are concerned, there is no such thing as a differentiation between FE1 and FE2...

I’m sure you’ve posted this elsewhere, but just to (for no other reason than we’re all bored here waiting for our cars) put some context to things: what was roughly your “I specced the car and don’t get my deposit back” date, and what was your production month?

If I were to guess I would bet “few to none”. My dealership‘s demonstrator is their first order so it is theoretically an early Canadian build: I’ll check to see if it has the net next time I’m there. Emphasis above on “guess”. I’m trying to remember when my dealer first called me to say that...

This only makes sense. When did North American production start? Long after Lotus made the minor product improvement of the passenger footwell cargo net and the corporate decision to phase out green from the logo. What are they going to do during production? “Nigel! How many times do I have to...

If you’re still gauging interest or trying to predict production I would take one in leather and one in Alcantara, red stitching for each.

I like it. I tend to think of Mazda as the Japanese spirit of Lotus. I’ve owned four FB RX7s and an RX8 over the years, and the Emira will be my 4th Lotus. I guess I kinda have a thing 😬…

I am just amazed at the variability of various reviews over the past years. For example: this reviewer didn’t like the seats. Others have loved them. It is true of almost every sound-bite reviewable element of the car (ride, exhaust note, seat comfort, etc.) that opinions are wildly disparate...

I can vouch for the fact that Time2Fly has a contact, and that he is not a Big Fat Poopy Liar. Had I known he was making schmoozie progress with said employee while we were at the factory a few weeks ago I would have tried to muscle in on that action myself. In all seriousness though, Time2Fly...

What province are you in? 😳

On your first point the first 60 do not necessarily include all the FE1s. While the serial numbers are sequential, we have no way of knowing if they built in order and they certainly are not being shipped in order. For example, the number 2 order at Gentry was not even on the boat. On your...

There is speculation amongst many of our Stateside colleagues that CARB state cars were not shipped from Hethel until CARB certification occurred. As I understand it, Canadian certification occurred around the same time as CARB certification. So, if the theory that CARB state cars were built but...

My car wasn’t in the first 6 that delivered to Gentry yesterday. Mine will presumably be on one of the next trucks (they only hold six cars) that should deliver within the next week or so. The blue one is indeed the demonstrator. Given that there is no differentiation between “FE1” or ”FE2”...

Funny you should mention the appliance thing… https://www.emiraforum.com/threads/lotus-refrigerator.4296/#post-126313

🤔 This already happened, actually: the compressor failed after 3 years. However: the Lotus logo was not on the fridge at the time, so I’m not entirely sure if we can blame The Prince of Darkness.

I happened to be at the dealership yesterday dropping off my plate as the cars were being delivered. They aren’t coming in any particular order, and as I understand it have not even been shipped from Hethel in any particular order. There will be more coming to Gentry by truck in the coming days...

Turn your boring old LG fridge into a designer Lotus type in one easy step 😜! (Lotus roundel magnet required 😬) You’re welcome.

It is your Emira: it’s being shipped in the new dehydrated form factor. Just add water and you’ll be all set 👍🏼

Yeah, light is fascinating stuff! Thanks for that information: time to fire up the chainsaw, then, and get rid of the bottom frame of that cutout! Vroom vroom… 🥽🛠️🪚

Good point, thanks! I was contemplating what part of the door is out furthest in relief. It’s very difficult to discern if the outermost portion (as you say it’s the center of this door) would stick out 2” further than the bottom…