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Deposit 12th July '21, originally had a bunch of dates earlier in the year, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov for delivery, and now Feb build. As long as it can get PDI'd with a march (23) reg I'll be happy. Should mean I get to collect just before my birthday 🤞

I posted this before but here's a comparison against my Mustang key I'm case that helps anyone guage the size

What it doesn't say (that I saw) is if that's an always on port so that you can do parking mode on the dash cams that support it, I'm guessing it's not and turns off with the ignition 🤔

I believe it was around 65-70 if memory serves, then 3rd was about 90, 4th about 115-120

They were all manual cars

I only drove the Tour chassis so can't comment on the differences, but yes, both cars will have the drive mode choices

I can confirm from doing the LDA yesterday, the brakes in the car are incredible! One of the skills tests we had to do was a brake and avoid. Approach a wall of cones at approx 50/60/70/75mph and then, with a marker cone approx 20m in front, stomp on the brakes and then swerve through a cone...

Just did a quick Google, on Volvo's you press the L and R buttons simultaneously for a second and that folds or unfolds the mirrors. I suspect it will be the same in the Emira given the switches look to be identical to the volvo ones

It wasn't in the settings but this is a standard feature on most cars so I'd expect so. There's a small dial on the drivers door for controlling the mirrors, normally you either push this towards the front of the car or twist it 180 degrees to fold the mirrors when you want to do it ad-hoc

I don't think we were sat in totally production ready seats, I didn't see the three stripes for example. I think the seats are going to be very personal as to whether you do or don't get on with them. I felt comfortable and secure in them while throwing the car around the track and they were...

Some more notes on the cars. We only had three cars on standby for use during the day, a DV, seneca and nimbus car. As the DV and nimbus were out on track pretty constantly all day, I didn't get too thorough of a look through the cars but I did sit in and have a look around the seneca LDA car...

I wish I'd paid more attention/made better notes. But, I know that we used a mixture of the modes today, some of it in tour, some of it in track. I felt like the slow, pootling around getting onto the track, the car was quite quiet. But under hard acceleration, it really did open up and sounded...

To echo's Andrew's sentiment, I was also at the event today and think good news is definitely accurate! Today's event saw 6 of us on the tailor made advanced, full day course, led by 2 instructors, Martin Donnelly and Toby Goodman. We used two cars, the dark verdant on a sports setup with cup...

I was getting Evora quotes around £1800-£1900 and just tried for the Emira, about £2200. Current car is £1200 from the same company. So yep, bit more expensive but it's about what I expected it to be. London post code and being under 30 does not make for cheap insurance 😅

I'll see both of you there next Friday too, wonder how many from the forum will be there 🤔

Could it be that this weird numbering is an effort to smooth out the revs so the bar moves across at a pretty much constant speed? 🤔

Spoke to Stewart as I was asking for more detail on the agenda for the day. He pointed to a lady he had just been talking to who apparently was composing just that the last couple of weeks. He said to expect more details about what to expect on the day to be emailed to those registered already...

I sat in both today and the pedals in the LHD were noticeably off to the right, the steering wheel seemed ok to me though. In the RHD, both pedals and wheel seemed to be exactly where I would expect them for my normal driving position. YMMV of course.

Others have used either unlisted YouTube videos or Vimeo and then posted links. Any content you have I'm sure will be greatly appreciated shared!

Great picture! Now, how do we get shorter brackets made up/purchase them from lotus maybe? I can legally get my plate down to 363mm if I can find an appropriate bracket

On the cars at Goodwood this bracket is about 450mm long I would have said, not much shorter than the plate itself so wouldn't work with a short plate

Managed to get a Friday ticket last night so have visited the stand today. My August build is now an October build (12th July deposit, V6 Manual) with likely a November delivery. Asked about the black rubber strip on the bonnet and was told it was added later in the design to minimise wind...

I used to do this all the time (London) on my road, which is admittedly relatively narrow, cars parked both side, room for one between. My car has twice been hit (minor damage) and I've seen 3 more serious crashes with cars parked on the ends as well, just on the one street and all in the space...

I'm not going to make it, so, for those who do go, can you have a look at the infotainment system and see if it's the final production version? All the reviews mentioned it hadn't been completed and no one's really given much information about it. I'm wondering if you'll be able to use apps and...

Does anyone do that (in the UK)? Not something I've heard of but have heard of fixed price servicing packages for the first 3 years

Thanks for the links! You've saved me a lot of googling! Seems the Emira is in the first glance batch which appears to run at both 0940 and 1410 on Thursday right? I've not been to FOS before but tempted to buy a last minute ticket and come along. Just worried about missing out on seeing the...

Does anyone know what day's the Lotuses will be going up the hill? Is there a schedule somewhere?

Just had my call from Stewart as well. The first LDA events will now be on the 23rd of July and he's calling all the folks who've booked prior to this to help rearrange. He was very communicative and answered all of my questions, the delays are linked to the supply chain issues and they've...

No way! How did you find out? Hopefully they don't cancel the 29th 😔

They have in the T&C's that you aren't allowed to take any cameras on site for the LDA, otherwise I 100% would have hooked up my GoPro

I tried to speak to Manning's to get a speculative quote but got told that at my age, they'd need me to own the car for a year before they'd be able to help. So I'm now going to wait til the first cars come out and see what I can find on the comparison sites

Sorry to hear you're pulling out, I've been stressing about whether to go ahead with mine or not but at the moment I'm still in! For me, perhaps not the most financially sensible decision, but hey, you only live once right? What's the spec that lucky person gets Daz, if you don't mind sharing?

That is a shame! I'll make sure to let you know what I find out, hopefully it'll make yours better

This is pretty much what I'm taking it as, an early and hopefully very enjoyable test drive! Will certainly report back once I've done it. Mines on the 29th so still a couple of weeks away, but I am very excited about getting to drive one so soon!

I've booked in on the Tailor Made Advanced later this month. It'll be my first time doing anything like this so wondered if anyone has any advice for making sure I make the most out of it? I've driven a number of high performance cars on the road before so have experience with circa 400bhp rear...

PPF, Ceramic, Dashcam (BlackVue 2ch), Tracker+Immobiliser, Yellow seatbelts (to match stitching) Considering the TDC and contrast stitch, has anyone had any quotes from dealers for getting this done pre-collection?

Will the Emira fit in the Eurotunnel without damaging the diamond cut alloys, those kerbs are nasty!

Looking back, you might be right, they might have changed the metal plate between offloading and putting the Australian plate on, in which case, hopefully the lotus spare parts store will sell us other regional plates in the UK as well