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Even if you figure 3 hours at $250, you’re still well under $1,000. Looking at installation instructions, there just ain’t that much to changing the exhaust. What’s more, it’s not like there’s a bunch of one time use expensive fasteners and gaskets that are needed. I guess if you can get...

$2,700?!?! That’s absurdly overpriced for installation of an exhaust. Are you buying from a Lotus dealer? I would have signed and dated, in writing from the dealership manager and service department manager, that the exhaust in no way changes warranty coverage in the car. Heck, I’d probably...

I hear you on the 2 hour trip thing. I am in the same boat. A CEL just popped up today, and I have been having intermittent failure to start issues. I want it addressed but to the dealership and back is a half day round trip for me.

Looks fantastic! Now to figure out Ice Grey...

Also, I can make this happen for less than $10k. https://www.harborfreight.com/power-tools/power-saws/reciprocating-saws/6-amp-rotating-handle-variable-speed-reciprocating-saw-57806.html Now, where and when should I pick up your car?

The people who would confidently say they could make this happen, especially for $10k, are exactly the people who you would NOT want doing this to your car!

I for one would love a C8 Z06 as a stablemate to my Emira. I just wouldn’t love looking at it.

For me, had Lotus offered a really good orange or green, I would have with one of those. Dark verdant is a pretty color, I just wanted something lighter and brighter.

The blueish tint is what makes it visually interesting next as opposed to a straight silver. But I might be biased…

Some yellow interior stitching would have been a nice option. I can live without the top marker on the steering wheel, but it would be nice flair. What I’d love to do, but probably never will, would be Tillett carbon fiber seats with Ice Grey leather pads and some yellow stitch accents. The...

You sir, have excellent taste in cars. I know because they are almost exactly the same as mine.

Every photos of a new configuration makes me think I should have ordered my Emira like that! I just need to accept the fact that OS is the best color, it looks fantastic both with the upper black pack and without, and move on! Or buy another so I can drive the one that looks best to me that day.!

To all those with an OS Emira, what other choices did you make? Mine is: Ice Grey upper black pack alcantara steering wheel silver wheels yellow calipers

Different how?

They like it!

This is a very good point. There are many retrospective reviews of cars on YouTube, and in magazines, which are far kinder to a given car than when it was new. Also, I agree 993 is just about peak 911. Brace yourself, what I’m about to type is heresy: I think the 993 is a proto-Singer from...

Can we have photos and details of the lowering and spacers?

The MC20 is so much prettier than modern mid-engine Ferraris.

There are paint jobs and then there are paint jobs. I think some cars would stand up to a carwash with nary a problem. I love my Emira, I just don’t trust that it would fare well in an automated carwash.

Brave man! I wouldn’t recommend that if you have the upper black pack. I think a car wash would, in the words of my father, “scratch the fool out of the paint”. Kudos to you for treating it like an object and not a baby!

Now that we have that settled, who wants to talk about politics?

I'll hold my breath on the white until I see it in the flesh. I think Mist White, upper black pack, red interior, could look great.

Osmium owner, here to defend my choice! Osmium, in my opinion, highlights the contours of the car the best in the most lighting conditions. To my taste, Nimbus and Magma can look incredible in photos, but in the flesh don't pop unless under ideal conditions. They also don't highlight the...

Yes but I need people who I don't know that drive by my fancy house to THINK that I'm wealthy! Who doesn't want the approval of people they don't know?

Yes, assuming current tax law stays the same, and you don’t need to withdraw more than you planned, and you don’t need to withdraw money during a downturn, etc., etc., etc., all that can go according to plan. It probably does much of the time for many people. In the aggregate. However, there’s...

There’s this nasty little thing called tax. It’s pretty good at eroding those 10% gains.

I wish the Emira had analog gauges!

The reasoning he explained doesn't quite make sense to me, but then again it doesn't have to. He has the reasons he expressed, and maybe some he doesn't care to share. Can't jump inside his head or argue the relative value of his personal reasoning. The direction that Lotus is going has nothing...

Maybe he has a YouTube channel that is dependent on views, the hype on the Emira is dying down, and he wants/needs a new car to make more content. He already made quite a few videos on the Emira. He may have exhausted the viewers who want to see content for that car. I think there will be...

I love that your kids are enjoying it too! My kids really dig getting to ride in Daddy’s Lotus”! I have very fond memories of riding with my dad in his 1976 Triumph TR6 or 1969 Mustang Mach 1 when I was a kid. It sparked a lifelong passion for cars, one that I still share with him. That sort...

This kit ruins the organic design of the Emira.

That stinks!

Other than improved looks/lowering, what ride or handling issue are you trying to resolve or improve with the Nitron shocks?

Excellent advice.

Looks great! How is the ride quality? com'è la qualità di guida

And how! They're the best "luxury" purchases I have ever made!

Ain’t that the truth! My parents are in their mid 70’s. My Dad still works 2-3 days a week, because he enjoys it, and it gives him just enough income that he doesn’t have to touch retirement accounts unless there’s something big he wants to do or buy. They started traveling a lot about 5 years...

Also, I plan on keeping this car. Forever. When I buy, which is rare, I get exactly what I want. So I don’t care much about it depreciating, as the resale value is detached from what I value the car to be. I also valued buying this car brand new and getting to configure it to my spec. This...

A few thoughts. First: Can you get an Emira and meet your financial obligations and responsibilities to your spouse and children, (assuming you have both, or either)? Second: If you buy the car now, and realize that it wasn’t a good financial decision, you can always sell it. Yes, you will...

The title says it all. I am about to do my first oil change, and I wondered if an EZ oil drain valve (1) will fit (2) works as advertised without leakage. Thanks!