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Hopefully you have an email or text where they admitted liability. My suggestion is that any correspondence between you and the shop be conducted via a means that can be recorded. State laws vary on recording phone conversations. Texas, for example, is one party consent. My 2 cents- I’d try...

Once you’ve seen the best color, you do t have to see it over and over again for 29 pages.

I’m usually 190-200, no limp mode. I live in central Texas, which is quite hot and fairly humid. The engine always seems strong and happy at those temps.

Great combo!

Looks great!

Great looking wheels!

The Bose system in our family Mazda is bangin’! The Bose system in my brother’s Cadillac is not.

Seems like the sound has improved over time since I’ve had mine. Or maybe it was just my imagination, running away from me.

Very nice photo. OS all the way!

Lotus branded tube socks. The hand is about to "grab life by the ankles" and pull on some light weight socks.

Lotus makes some odd choices when it comes to user interface. Start the car without the clutch pedal depressed? No problem. Cruise control disengagement when shifting? Inconvenient. Exhaust in loudest setting unless in track mode? ABSOLUTELY NOT!

I think those sorts of rankings/personality charts fall apart completely among real-deal car enthusiasts. For example, I’d have no problem owning, driving, or being seen in a Ford Fiesta ST, because the car represents a fantastic compact sports sedan with unique engineering. The same way I can...

Very annoying, but thankfully it can probably be refinished!

Very cool! I’d like to have the same for my car.

Great dedication to your passion!

You ain't working on your car unless you make at least 1 unplanned trip to the store during install.

Why did I have 2 Rockford Fosgate 12s and all the other gear? My brother worked at BestBuy one summer and got anything in the store for cost + 5%, or something like that. You knew my system was bangin' hard because the headlights would dim when the bass hit at idle! My brother didn't think I...

I had mine done, would do again. No appreciable drop in clarity of light output.

My first car was a 1991 Ford Taurus SHO. I got it in 2001. 220 HP from a DOHC 3.0 Yamaha V6 with dual length intake runners and a 5 speed manual transmission. Pretty stout for it's day. Anyway, it had an electrical gremlin that 16 year-old-me didn't have the skill or patience to track down and...

Go for it! The first time you do anything on a car is a pain! But it's worth it. I have never, ever, gotten my car back together after a DIY and thought, "man, a shop would have done a better job than me". Hubris? Maybe. However, when I get my car back together, I know it was done correctly...

This is yet another chapter in the long saga of Lotus. It isn't the final one. If Geely wants to dump it, someone will come in and buy the brand new, pretty factory for a song, and continue making the already developed and tested cars for as long as possible. If necessary, they can add new...

Also, I really don't care for McLaren styling. Next to the Emira, it's simultaneously busier and more boring!

I love the blues side by side! A Meridian just needs to finds its way to y'all next time! Is that at the Catalina Wine Mixer? I see the chopper in the background.

I learned a hard lesson about winter driving. 10 years ago or so I was living in Dallas. We had multiple consecutive days of freezing rain with temperatures that did not get above freezing. Dallas is completely unequipped for such weather, as it happens very, very infrequently, and the...

Track setting here 90% of the time.

Ah, my Canadian friend! Not all winters are the same! Our “winter” here in central Texas is a bit, shall we say, “milder” than what The Great Frozen North experiences. Our average daily low temp in January is still above freezing. So yes, my Emira can be a year-round car!

Fantastic car! It's like a cross between a Caterham and Plymouth Prowler, and I mean that in the BEST possible way! I love it!

I think you just followed the owner of one of those “drive an exotic for $599” home and took a picture of their garage. Nice collection!

I am a HUGE fan of HUDs, especially for night time driving. I wish we had one in the Emira. I think they’re especially nice for nighttime driving when you turn off the instrument cluster and all other interior lights.

I didn’t “do” anything to me car, per se, but last Friday I picked my daughter up in my Emira, and my dad picked my son up in his 1976 Triumph TR6, one right in front of the other. Pretty good start to the first week back at elementary school!

It’s pretty cool that you can now buy road cars that, with racing tires fitted, would leave LeMans cars from the 60’s and 70’s in the dust. With air conditioning and CarPlay.

I wonder if Gordon Murray would make a “bespoke” pretty version of the T50 if you gave him enough money. I have similar feelings about the McLaren F1. Fantastic specs and technical achievement. Styling is meh.

Yeah….joking. I wish! Nope, my car won’t start sometimes. Then it does. I need to get it back to the dealer to have them sort it out.

I have read that the Evora S was/is a true high mark for handling. Very nice ones can still be had for $45-55k, which I think is a bargain if they live up to the hype. How does the Emira compare to the Evora S 2+2?

Every time someone posts a beautiful high res, high contrast photo of an Emira in different configuration than mine I think I should have gotten mine configured like that! I need to stop looking at y’all’s photos. Or get some vanity photos of my own car taken!

Who knows? I think different people received different gifts at different times, some no gift at all. Mine came a lot later than other forum members.

2003 XJR 100 with about 50k miles for $13,500ish. There’s a specific one I’m thinking of, but many low mile examples were trading for under 20k.

“No honey, that’s a Turbo S! It’s different than a regular, plebeian Turbo. Can’t you tell the difference?”

Oddly, part of the mystique to me is the idea that Lotus is still somewhat of a cottage car maker that’s gotten by on wits and outside the box thinking despite limited resources. I know this isn’t exactly the case, as Geely owns them and I have seen the videos of the new factory. It ain’t like...

On the one hand, you’re right. On the other hand? You’re probably right on that hand too, frankly. Once the “First Edition” expanded the color options and made a de facto FE 2.0, it became obvious to me that it wasn’t a truly limited production. I’m probably OK with that because I didn’t order...