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Nice! That’s all that we really can do in Colorado unless someone goes through the effort of CARB approval. There is one supercharger I could get for the c7 that has is but otherwise you can’t change the ECU. During emissions they run the check sum number on the ECU and the current flash has to...

This is an incorrect take on this. When you are using a car without pedal commander and an electronic controlled throttle the driver demand tables are indicating the throttle body opening response. The driver demand tables take the percentage of throttle application and translate it to what...

This is the story from my understanding at least. Elway bought it from Ferrari Denver. I think Ferrari had an issue with Lotus being there or Ferrari Denver needed to get rid of the Lotus to be able to up their dealer level. Elway then put it with their Bentley dealer. Lotus then had a...

I’m pretty picky on how stereos sound and the bass in the Emira sounds horrendous. I haven’t driven in it for awhile because it’s my wife’s car but I really need to install new speakers. It just doesn’t sound right for some reason.

We have a silver s4, my wife bought it from her dad off lease. I just don’t see the appeal of silver and grey. It does literally nothing for me. Not sure why, but it’s just boring. We got yellow for the Emira and I need to wrap the corvette. I impulse purchased a black one which was moronic in...

The people who are doing this aren’t doing the building of anyone’s cars. They can only build how many they can push through the assembly line. It’s silly to say they can’t work on their next car while building the current car. That’s a great way to not have a future as business, if you can’t...

Then they can move to the 3 seater emission failure 1 version.

We have Hagerty and put down $5k miles. I’d like to use them for the Corvette but the not daily driver part screws me. I drive it to work all the time since it’s the best on gas mileage haha. Our annual premium is only $2k which is shocking given where we live. I thought that was pretty reasonable.

I doubt anyone has built them yet but when I’ve looked for the corvette, there are a couple places that make and ABS covers for underneath the splitter so you don’t jack it up when you bottom it out. It’ll be nice when I have money to buy a giant 3d printer for my wife’s business so I can make...

I know they’ll mess this up and not make anything close to this because no car manufacturers actually make their concept cars. But if they made the inside normal and not build the frame in carbon fiber, to get it at a normal price, I’d put a deposit down today. A three seater is awesome and unique.

Last time I drove by there they had quite a few left but it’s been a bit. We still got the one we had on order for my wife she’s a bit of a Lotus slut since she had an Exige with a boyfriend before we met. But it’s a bit of a rough price point I think the old price made more sense, I understand...

Let me put it this way I’m still rebuilding the car. Life has got in the way the last 15 years. But I can still open the doors which aren’t light and the piston still holds them up without any problems. This is probably 20 years after I purchased them. So unless they have dramatically changed...

It would be interesting to see how easy it is to do. A lot of front fenders aren’t conducive to the angles you need to do this. My 3000gt was one of the first cars when VLS (Vertical Doors now) started manufacturing these. To do it with the 3000gt you have to open the door like 8 inches out...

I’ll buy one, just make the price right on it. But I’m also not going to have a mental breakdown if it’s not what Lotus, is or used to be as a car company. If it’s a cool looking car, unique and fun to drive that’s good enough. I don’t need Lotus embedded heritage in every model. But I get it...

My wife is going to do purple while keeping the blackpack parts. I think she’s doing this so I won’t drive it around since I have no desire to drive a purple car… haha

We emailed ours. We’re in no rush at the rate my wife’s business is rolling right now a few months and we could just pay cash lol. But they said they didn’t even have a VIN and were expecting till later this summer. So definitely not all built. That or he’s trying the concept of under promise...

As I tell my wife all the time see told you I was right…

There are a lot of moronic things California does. Trying to make emissions be lower isn't one of them.

Story is the right word here. That would be completely impossible without help from the tellers or a systematic failure of any validation for deposits.. First the bank would have to not check any of the names on the checks and the account they were depositing into. If you're a teller, you have a...

There has been so much that has happened since the deposit if you did it in 2021 that the whiny about a price increase with it a signed contract is really a bunch of whining. We put out money down in 2021 at some point not sure when. At that point we were even sure if we’d get one because the...

We’re going with there is a dealer meeting prior to someone on the forum notifying the dealers? I’d be more confident in a dealer meeting occurring because of one of the forums telling the dealers it passed than Lotus setting up that meeting.

They only depreciate if you can’t sell it for more. I’m not bored enough to do this but you can run a script to see if they have it posted just not posted to the actual section of the website. The logic they follow on their URLs is pretty easy to adjust you just have to run a script to adjust...

Yeah I’m pretty sure my wife is going to be out. She ordered a yellow one and shes definitely second guessing now with everything that has been mentioned 100 times in here. One of the other things is colors. She doesn’t love the yellow and will be pissed if the base config comes out and there is...

Yes cause Lotus and dealers have been the pinnacle of correct information since these were announced.

At $110 it’s still a limited group that can buy it. I also don’t care too much about new. I can do most work on cars so if there’s something wrong I can generally fix it. Luckily this one isn’t too tech heavy. The main issue I see is parts and how easy they’ll be able to get from Lotus. I’m...

My wife and I are definitely debating getting it now or waiting a couple years. If they are going to import so many, it’s not much of a limited run and with how big of a shitshow it has been I want to see how well they support the cars. 110k versus 80k opens up a whole bunch of different car...

There is no way this is on CARB. I may think some Cali laws are over the top. But if every single other manufacturer can pull this off, it can’t be that complicated… Especially considering they know what the rules are. It’s not like CARB is going we’re bored let’s change the rules for Lotus.

The article was really more about the release situation than the car. So it’s not surprising that he might have accidentally typed 3.5 versus 4.5 or remembered 0-60 as the 3.5L engine not the 4.5 0-60. So I‘m not concerned with that misprint. Definitely not something that would have got picked...

I don’t think it contradicts them, I think the problem is that it compliments each other. The EPA certification was done in October, all the data is already there for CARB. CARB in theory should be easy since it says it met those levels on the test. This is why I said I think they sent them...

I’m talking about what the PR rep said in the interview a couple days ago in the news article. She said it won’t be Jan and there isn’t a timeline.

Unless the US PR rep is blowing smoke up everyone’s ass it definitely does not seem like it’s getting done in Jan, but the vagueness is annoying. Also I’m going with Lotus didn’t ship these to just ship them. It looks like the October EPA submission was a resubmission, so they did do something...

Except they’ll find out from there before lotus 🤣

So after researching a whole bunch on this since I posted. The codes on the right are the EPA codes, ones is test group, the evap group is specific to lotus. They have the approval from EPA that was effective 10/27/23. The code for CARB is just the carb standards that the car is tied to for...

Here is where i read this. Post in thread 'USA CARB stickers available now so Emiras should get delivered soon' https://www.emiraforum.com/threads/usa-carb-stickers-available-now-so-emiras-should-get-delivered-soon.4019/post-116601 That said there is a reason they werent supposed to be...

Anyone know how they are getting around the MPG Piece? https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/usdot-announces-new-vehicle-fuel-economy-standards-model-year-2024-2026 That said I find it really odd they are having an issue with CARB on an engine that exists already. That is baffling to me.

I mentioned this earlier, I honestly don’t care when we get it. But this is a bigger cluster than anything but Boeing right now lol.

You mean how they’ve been super on top of delivery and getting them approved in the US? This is silly no one thinks this actually won’t get delivered. It is not chicken little when this has been said it would be delivered for 3 years. I don’t care when it gets delivered, my wife wants it so...

Already debunked in this thread. They were updates to the window sticker not carb approval.

Exactly. If Jan was actually realistic. Who cares if you release them in the middle of Jan, so someone has to wait a week or two to actually register it? Besides not all states are California stupid on new cars, so there is a very small number of people that would be affected for almost no time.

At the rate we’re going I’ll have the vr4 finished before we get this car and it won’t turn on and isn’t painted lol. I’ll need to move my license plate for the Vette over to the Emira for my wife. I got pigsflw it makes way more sense to have it on there when it gets delivered.