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My wife had an exige with her ex-BF so she’s a bit of a Lotus fangirl. A lot… borderline obsessed… maybe a mental issue, anyways. At this point I’m almost going you sure you don’t want an F430 and I’ll just do the manual conversion. I can probably get that done faster than carb getting approved.

It can’t be any worse than the torque tube tunnel on my c7 holy hell I drove that through one of the mountain passes out here and thought my right leg was going to catch on fire. Once I’m done installing the new clutch I’m getting more insulation in there. I don’t need to cook a hamburger while...

lol no Boeing is actually better, they can get their shit approved with software to fix their design issues they just fall apart later… Lotus can’t even make up random software to fix this.

They’re even more challenging when you were supposed to release the car under lower standards but you took too long to build it along with not having a fleet average because you can’t get the i4 model built. If you told me they will pass when the i4 was finally delivered I wouldn’t be surprised...

The reasoning doesn’t make any sense. There is zero chance that CARB will allow an ECU update without starting over testing, they’re not going to risk VW 2.0. So it can’t be CARB final checks. If it’s Lotus’ final checks what are they checking did they forget to tighten a bolt on the CAT? I...

Honestly this sounds worse than I was anticipating. Saying you don’t know when it should have been done already, and in theory if it’s a software update something easy to fix. I’m not optimistic.

"There is other testing and software updates that need to be completed," Meier said. She could not give an estimate on when that would be done.” Lotus initially expected the cars to have CARB certification by the end of this month, but now the company has backed off that date. "Basically, what...

Gonna need to have my wife tell them to leave the plastic on the wheels for her. At least it’ll protect them for a little bit

1. Validate car is not hologram

Delivery/destination fee was always going to be charged. It may be a bit higher but it’s also low volume so it’s costing them more than being able leverage volume cost reduction there. With the cost increases on the FE2. My guess is that they almost have very slim margin on FE1. Have they...

Right. This is way over thinking that it’ll take weeks. The sales person doesn’t do the financing. The sale is already effectively done pending payment. So you’ll have managers stepping in to help also. You can line basically everything up beforehand schedule when they are going to come in and...

That only gives me like 4 months to get the clutch changed in the Corvette and convince my wife things broke while I was changing it so I need to add some upgrades.

We have a 2.0 on order. We were told originally May-June of next year. I was wondering the same thing given that it sounds like they are trying to keep colors together or same specs together to make it easier for builds. I’ll be interested to see if there are 2.0s included if they were one of...

This is most likely fake. It is physically impossible to take pictures of cars matched to orders at the factory. Otherwise Lotus would have done it already…

Not sure which SS will actually be delivered with the car but generally anything under 40 they make crack and they won’t be warrantied. So yeah definitely should not be driven in cold temps. Although first order for us will be getting a bit wider tires so my wife doesn’t curb the rims…

Our kids will be going in it. Not sure why you wouldn’t have a kid in the car? The kids love the Corvette. It’s unfortunate they didn’t go with a targa as an option for the Emira.

They’re on Hawaiian time. It’ll get done when it gets done.

Demo car?

It depends on the layup and how much CF they use also. It could have any variation of weight really. Same thing with the cover it depends how thick it it’s right now.

I think the new part is key. I’m sure they have a formula and what to start basing it on but it’s still a crap shoot on repair costs so some are going to be higher just because they don’t have data on a new car.

Yup. I have a scanner and about 25 3D printers, but the car would be helpful here to make anything...

I mean it’s Lotus’s on schedule so if they get them done someday it’s technically on schedule for them.

I love the “should” makes me feel like their info is from anyone but lotus. You’d think they’d have a bit more specifics…

Quite frankly if they want to ship us the parts I’m sure we have enough people here than can put them together faster.

My wife can make hats… how many do we need to order for this?

Or have your wife curb the wheels then you have to get them fixed anyways… not that that has happened on every car.

The logic doesn’t make sense for this one. This made sense up until the point they asked for FE 2.0 order details. But why expand the order allocation and then within the last month ask for those configurations. There was no expectation on timeline for FE 2.0 so there wasn’t a reason to ask for...

My wife started a new business after she ordered the car so trying to allocate money without actually knowing a date is great, it’s a lot of fun.

Hey I am cool with my C7, I get to wear jorts while driving with the top off. Car top, no one wants to see me with my top off.

If it’s an emissions thing like above they probably don’t know. Not because of just the time line because there is probably a list of crappy options and even the least crappy option will be bad for NA buyers. -Buying credits -> Increases car costs that already went up considerably. -Have to...

Gonna have that flipping song stuck in my head now for the next week.

One of the greatest American classic movies in history.

Decided I’d finally join in on the fun. My wife submitted her specs last month with a May/June delivery. I told her That might be right if you ignore the year part.