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Sport with Goodyears. My use and roads are a perfect fit and I will have a dedicated set of track wheels and tires.

I wouldn’t use the N-Spec, Porsche spring rates, damping and bushing hardness is quite different than Lotus. Goodyear doesn’t list the LTS spec yet but I imagine they will by the time we need replacements. Usually Lotus makes arrangements to at least make sure their dealers can get them. I...

Exactly my point, Porsche, or some of its dealers may claim to control it but that’s simply not true. Their allocation system doesn’t care who’s name is applied to the commission number. Hell, their system even has provisions for dealers to exchange allocations. They even have a marketplace...

The Model Y is another one of those vehicles that is just ugly and disproportionate from a number of angles. When we bought our Model 3 Performance we looked at the Y in the flesh, side by side. Both me and my wife agreed it was not a good looking vehicle and I’m being nice when I say that...

I hope that’s not an accurate depiction, it’s way too Asian looking and follows none of the sports car’s design language. It might as well be a Nissan or Kia.

Gavin commented in The Smoking Tire Podcast @ 1:24:00 on the tire selection. He said they went through 70 front and 80 rear tire compounds and constructions to arrive at spec tires, which are the Goodyears. The F1’s with the lotus spec code are bespoke and unlike any other tires in the...

When it works, it’s notorious for not working consistently. I know, my wife has had a lot of grief with the app to the point where she bought one of their rings so she wouldn’t have to dig for her key card whenever the app refused to connect to the car.

Naples is very secretive about the actual numbers, at least to new customers like me but they did have over 170 2 weeks ago when I placed my deposit so I would imagine that will balloon to over 200 once a few more reviews hit YouTube. The one saving grace is they should get about 10% of the NA...

Agreed. Back in the day when I needed a daily driver and it sat out in the hot Florida sun every car I owned had the best window tint available and it made a huge difference. Since I work from home and have for the last 15 years I now look at tint as a styling exercise. Some cars just beg to...

True, the UV film should be part of the base glass. And I was mistaken on the IR, that normally gets blocked by the glass itself. I had to do a little search but recalled the IR relationship. The car heats up because the visible light excites the interior which gives off Infrared light. Since...

Living in FL my Emira will have privacy glass on the rear and sides unless they can show high UV and IR blockage with the “clear” glass.

It was on a different forum and the comment from Wendell was that it was a mistake on the website though it seems odd it was identified months ago but it has not changed on the site. But to be precise, I just looked and it says 400 HP, not 405……

As long as they are offering it and not just doing it I’m ok with it.

Mike, you are correct, it’s more about who you placed your deposit with than when. For example, I talked to 4 dealers within 500 miles, their wait lists ranged from 38 to 174 You may think, place the order with the dealer with 38 ahead of you but you would be wrong. That dealer only got 8 FE...

Well it is a Harmon head unit and they include SiriusXM on all the latest Volvo Harmon units so I’d guess yes. It has CarPlay so I’ll just do Amazon Music, Apple Music or Tidal. MUCH better fidelity than anything SiriusXM can deliver.

And there you go :cool: Halo cars that stoke brand awareness and desire. Porsche has rewritten the book on product marketing and brand recognition. I’d say only Ferrari and Harley Davidson play in their league when it comes the brand management.

I broached that topic before but Lotus claims to have a stop gap in place. All deposits are registered and require a copy of your drivers license. If a second registration comes in it gets rejected, or so I’m told.

Well that’s not what I discovered a couple weeks ago when I started my Lotus journey but I live in a different market than you do. It’s really irrelevant but the sad part is, this time next year the forum is going to be lit up with people who placed deposits in 2021 still waiting and others...

No, it’s not. 14 other states and DC require CARB certification. Since the cars are classified as 50 state compliant they can’t leave the port until both certifications are registered. The CARB certification is tied to EPA, it confusing and unnecessarily complex but it is what it is. The...

Yes, someone else also replied that the number is essentially random. While I share your enthusiasm I think 10000 is a stretch. It is highly likely all of the current planned MY23 run is spoken for with a significant number of MY24 run bleed over considering the delay in US i4FE availability...

Yep, as recently as 2020 all US 2021 992’s were held in port jail until certification was granted. Some showed up at the port in September 2020 but didn’t leave the port until early December 2020.

The 405HP number for China has been debunked. Matt Windle confirmed to a member here that was a mistake and the spec for the i4 is 360 bhp globally.

The Weisach spec he was driving has a $195000 MSRP, in US trim.

Correct, it's not a "Limited Edition" with a fixed number of copies but ALL GT products are limited in availability by design. One thing I know is all MY22, MY23 GT4, GT4RS, Spyder, GT3 and GT3T global allocations are spoken for and backed up by waitlists so them not being "Limited" is pure...

While interesting reviews, these cars are Unobtanium for anyone who didn't put down a deposit long ago, is willing to pay a $100K ADM and/or routinely buys multiple Porsche's every year. I also don't think anyone would be legitimately cross shopping this with the Emira. However, I could see a...

Thanks, at least that would imply that they have experience with the process so it isn't another new thing the factory workers need to learn. That assumes, of course, that it was actually done at the factory and not at the port. Considering my contact said they were investigating the port...

Thanks, I knew it couldn’t be that simple but one could hope :cool:

Same with 2 dealers I spoke with here in FL as well, including where I placed my deposit. Fingers and toes crossed I’ll be able to drive one before my refundable deposit turns into a non-refundable down payment.

My Porsche dealer requires $10k deposits when they use an allocation slot to build a high spec or odd spec car because regardless the situation something like a Boxster S with $50,000 of options and/or paint to sample is hard to sell. However, if a customer backs out once the order goes in and...

It also shows that FEi4 are Dec 21 2022 - March 20 2023 in the UK configurator. But to your point, yes, they will be building base model V6 cars for months before US/Canada FEi4’s get built. But according to the configurator UK FE buyers should all get their cars before UK Base buyers get...

I got one of these too but since I didn’t submit my reservation until last week I assumed it as in response to that, just a week late. You xxx’d out your number but based on mine I think there has been a lot of exaggeration over how many official reservations have been submitted for North...

It’s also down to state law, I know Florida law and even then you need to weigh the cost of fighting with the return. Dealers count on you not hiring a lawyer but many people don’t understand the small claims court process so the dealer ultimately wins. In WA it may be a different story and as...

Actually it’s more nuanced that what’s being reported here. When you provide a deposit to secure a reservation that’s typically fully refundable as there is no purchase contract because there’s nothing to buy. That means those dealers who call the deposit non refundable but have not produced...

Of course not but someone at the Boston dealership told the OP it was the case then used a reference to Evora's which I and I assume many others here have no knowledge of. Then a bunch of people latch on, gave it likes, etc. so now dozens, if not hundreds walk away thinking they get 75%...

It all depends on how you use your car. If this were to be my daily driver then yes, I probably would wrap it. For me this would be a 3rd or 4th car so I can be very selective on how I use it and where I park it. I have no need for PPF.

Cars do not simply drive off the ship and onto a truck or train. They all flow through QA/PDI facilities. I imagine Lotus leverages Volvo/Polestar facilities. At all automotive receiving ports manufacturers utilize either corporate owned workshops or 3rd parties who contract these services...

Because I don't want it period. If I were to want it I would want to make sure the paint is fully cured and corrected before it was applied, neither of these could be done at the factory. But, to clear this up, the Boston dealer was mistaken. The cars, at the present time, DO NOT come with...

I don’t either but do you really think someone’s going to walk away from $2500, aka still be on the fence, when the dealer tells them they are locked in? And actually the smart dealers don’t play that game on hot cars. They know that they make an extra $2500 AND can add an ADM if the buyer...

I certainly hope they DO NOT put PPF on the car from the factory. I’m not aware of any OEM doing standard factory PPF though I’ve heard some are contemplating it. Dealers will hate that, it robs them of a massive profit add on. Did the Evora actually come with factory PPF or was it some...

Well that’s interesting. I have a signed document that states when my number comes up no additional deposit is required but my refundable deposit becomes non-refundable. I don’t understand the need to put even more money down to order the car. The only time that makes sense is when someone is...