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Congratulations! Beautiful car. Mine apparently landed in Oz on the weekend so I should finally have it in a couple of weeks. I have to laugh though re your tracker comments. I didn’t spec the tracker as I was told it wouldn’t work here so would be a waste of money... Would definitely have...

Emira on order

I’m staying optimistic, but I am starting to get a bit pissed off. it’s not the delay that is bothering me so much (was supposed to be September delivery last year) as the total and utter lack of communication. Twice in the last couple of months I have called and spoken to Lotus Australia and...

Sold this three months ago to prepare for the arrival of the Emira which was due two months ago. Turns out I sold it a tad early… :p

Interesting, thanks. I tend not to be the kind of person who whines constantly and threatens to cancel (no way I’d cancel, almost no matter what) because at the end of the day it’s just a car and there are plenty of other things to keep me amused, BUT I have to say (like so many others) that...

Really? I wasn’t aware of any customer cars having been delivered here to Oz yet.

Spot on. Can’t stand flippers. I’d be willing to bet some of those now complaining and cancelling are exactly that - disappointed flippers. Excellent.

Well done, Lotus.

So why put “0-200kmh 32 sec verified” in the chart, if that’s not what the 0-200kmh time for the car is? Pretty idiotic, by any measure.

Laughable rubbish. Look at the last two lines. 0-200kmh in 32 seconds. 100-200kmh in 12.17 seconds. So, 0-100kmh must take 19.83 seconds. Ummm. Righto. Idiots.

All of that is fair enough. However, there is no way I would be benchmarking this car against a Yaris, or anything similar. For example, I had a 2020 Golf R wagon which I sold around 6 months ago (Ironically for exactly what I paid for it new). That was a great car, and by any objective measure...

Why wouldn’t you benchmark it at the price point? Isn‘t that what most potential buyers would do? If I’m looking at spending re $200k on a new sports car, I’m comparing it to other new cars I could buy at that price. I‘m not comparing it directly to an $800k car, which (you would hope) would...

Hmmm. I’m not going to bag @emiraspin because as I said before everyone’s view is equally valid and it is well worth listening to them all. And then making up your own mind... ;) But I can’t agree with the assertion that price doesn’t come into it. Of course it does, unless you’re a Big Time...

Agree 100%. I just sold my F355 which I’d owned for 11 years - partly to make way for the Emira. At no stage during that time did I wish the 355 was faster, except perhaps on the track (I tracked it four or five times) but it was still loads of fun on the track and for 99.9% of my driving the...

Agreed ^^ To be absolutely clear, I don’t care that much about straight line speed - I’ve had a Ferrari 355 for 11 years (which is slower than the Emira) and it has NEVER felt too slow to me. In fact I’d say the performance is about perfect for the road. Lots of fun, but not silly fast. Having...

FE doesn’t have parking sensors in your market? It does here (and camera).

Really? I’m not threatening to cancel, change my order or think I’ve made a terrible mistake based on what is written here.

Oh, and a little advice for those who seem to put too much weight on forum opinions - don’t.

Frankly I think there’s more than a little barracking for one’s own choice going on here. Those who have chosen touring suspension will leap on anything that suggests that is the way to go (this has been going on for a while) and so on.

I’m interested. Naturally would want to put my own choice of information at the bottom.

What bothers me about this is that all of the reviews are of a prototype car. I thought we were supposed to be getting reviews of the real thing by now?

Current daily driver is a 2020 Golf R Estate. Special car is this beautiful Ferrari 355F1. The main reason I've decided to buy an Emira is because it is the first new sports car in many, many years that has excited me in the way the 355 does (first since the 458, in fact. But that's out of my...

Couldn't agree more. Who cares if some peanut in something your Aunty drives (Yaris) or a glorified washing machine (Tesla) can beat you at the lights? That means nothing to me. It's all about the overall package and how the car looks, drives, and handles. The Emira will be significantly...

Me too! My daily drive... I do wish they had a proper silver option for the Emira. That with silver wheels would have been my first choice.

Hi Nick Registered interest in October and placed deposit in November.

Got an email today confirming my FE build slot (I'm in Oz) What was interesting is that the email stated that no one in any markets should be being told of specific build / delivery dates. Apparently if that is happening, it shouldn't be, so my guess is that it's over-excited dealers and not...

So I'm guessing everyone in Oz who has secured a FE slot got the email that I did today? What build number are you all? I'm 86

Thanks, Tom. It was a tough call. I was happy to have the privacy glass when I first put the order in but then read online that it would obscure the engine. When I spoke to the dealer they basically said that if I delete it and then when the car arrives I wish I hadn't I could always get it done...

Hi John and everyone else. Steve in Adelaide, here. I ordered my Emira beginning of November and have also been told around September delivery. I currently have a classic Ferrari (355) which I’ll probably move on before the Emira arrives. I deleted the privacy glass in my final spec as I‘d read...