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In some ways it's good news--- you got your blisters while you're still covered by the warranty!

I can help with your confusion. Meridian is very nice, but Nimbus is the best color. :D

Good effort!

Are you mixing up recalls and TSBs? AFAIK, Australian TSBs aren't public information?

Not much left, I'm afraid. I'm expecting the next financial results update to be a train wreck. Even if Emira is still selling at 5,000 units per year (which it probably isn't), the other two vehicles are an absolute and utter failure. And I'm not sure that sticking a hybrid engine into them...

Yes and no. Lotus Cars Ltd is still an independent company and not owned by Lotus Technology, but: 1. Lotus Technology has an option to acquire Lotus Cars whenever it wants 2. Lotus Technology has the exclusive rights to market and distribute all cars made by Hethel worldwide 3. I'm 90%...

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Geely or L Catterton board room! Lotus Technology shares closed yesterday at a new 52-week low of $1.48. Over the past year, the share price is down -82%. On the day of the Nasdaq SPAC, the shares closed at $13.80, so Lotus has lost about 90% of its...

My conspiracy theory is that Lotus's attempted change in warranty is linked to the compensation they negotiated with Teijin Automotive, the body panel provider.

Buick, Cadillac, Chevy, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, GMC, Jeep, Lincoln, Lucid, Ram, Rivian, Tesla. Nope, just don't agree with you. In Europe, Ford is a shadow of what it was 20 years ago but is still well-regarded and "part of the fabric" in countries like the UK. Tesla has done an amazing job in...

Agree, that's an odd one. Most reviews praise the hydraulic steering.

Big price difference! As tested, the 911 was £145,000 and the Aston was £165,000. I'll happily accept 4th place against that group. I wonder if the Turbo SE would have done worse or better?

Correct. I recognise several of the names.

Shocking good, I hope?

Validates the theory that this is a batch issue, rather than all cars being impacted. Matching doors come from the same "bad batch" so might as well replace them both

Feels a bit "Ferrari wannabe" to me.

That's a dealer extended warranty though, not a genuine Lotus warranty. TBH, unless they're from a manufacturer like the Porsche Approved Warranty, most extended car warranties are close to worthless. You have to drill into the details of the exclusions and maintenance requirements to find...

Agree. It's hideous.

Color is incredibly subjective. You may hate it, but other people will love it.

Is this is something Galpin have come up with? Ah, yes. It is, I found this on their Instagram: This Galpinized Emira is an homage to the Essex F1 livery, which Lotus featured in the 1980’s. Essex Petroleum became a key sponsor of the Lotus F1 team in 1979 and launched the lineup in 1980...

No it hasn't. There have been rumours on this forum which get repeated over and over again as if they were fact. When I did an AI search on discontinuing the 2FE engine, it sourced information from this forum! :D Show me one credible source that says Toyota has stopped making the 2FE...

Sure but that's almost two years from now! In the long run, everything on earth is eventually ending. If i4 demand is weak, and the TYP 135 has been delayed, Lotus will certainly look for ways to extend V6 production for as long as possible.

This.

It's a terrible look when Auto100 have 2-3x more Lotus vehicles for sale than any official Lotus dealer in the UK. Talk about trashing your brand.

Wow. Still longer than a year from deposit to order!

True, but this looks totally different. It isn't blistering, it's a large strip of delaminating paint. It looks more like a bad surface prep.

This doesn't look like the usual blistering problem. It looks more like a surface preparation issue before painting. I wonder if the car had some paint repair done before delivery . . . it happens much more often than most people realise.

I think it's a safe bet that either 2025 or 2026 will be the final year of V6 Emira production. Lotus has always said it will eventually be phased out. I'm just questioning this rumour that the last engine shipment from Toyota will be Q2/Q3. Says who exactly?

Source? This rumour keeps being repeated but no one can provide any evidence for it.

Don't agree. That's certainly true for the new EV vehicles, but Emira has far outsold Lotus's wildest dreams when they launched the car. They were blown away by the order book that built in the first 6-12 months, and the factory is still clearing it with i4 deliveries. And that's despite them...

Lotus hasn't announced the end of the V6 Emira. So far, it's all just rumour and speculation. "My dealer says" or "I heard on the factory tour". If there's any genuine 'hard' evidence that Toyota is ending production of the 2GR-FE then Google and Chat GPT can't find it! Toyota are very good...

Lotus is finally getting smart! If the V6 engine has only a short production life left, they should keep running as many "limited edition" versions as possible to get some badly-needed additional margin in the door.

Bolwell is a tiny car company based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded by the Bolwell brothers in the 1960s, one of whom briefly worked at the Lotus factory. In 2010, Bolwell put the Toyota 2GR-FE V6 engine in a new model called the Nagari 300, but they had a four-year delay in getting...

All that article (from 2023) says is that Toyota is no longer using the V6 in the Camry. It doesn't say they will no longer produce the 2GR-FE and it doesn't mention stopping in Q3 2025. In fact, it says "It will live on in the . . . Lotus Emira". I'm not giving you a hard time, but I've yet...

That looks good. I'd say the alignment is very similar to Lotus OEM.

Source?

Mine isn't great either. The Lotus one isn't perfect, but the Aerie one has a worse alignment. I suspect you don't notice it unless you're looking for it.

It's a bit selfish, but I'd be thrilled if they stop producing the V6. Lotus probably sold less than 5,000 of them worldwide, so it will be a fairly rare car— one of the better "final generation manual ICE" cars out there.