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I have a good friend in Bilbao too, Jose Ramon, but we call him El Visco😜

You better not be tasting that South American fruit!!!

I have very many Spanish friends, but none with your humour (compliment)🍻

You nearly said £100 towards petrol, c’mon admit it🤣

We’ve got a large spread on this thread, estimated price -15% to +21% 🤣

They sound nice people to do business with, a couple of my mates have them on order presently and are getting rather smug, can‘t wait to show them this🤣

I agree with your second paragraph, but not the first, anyway, I don’t see a problem with things as they are, officially appointed dealers are the only way to go longterm, one example is the warranty, if you buy a Rolex “cheap” alk well and good until you have a problem with it

Thing is, The new Lotus brand will not allow it’s cars to be sold this way, those days are gone. All imo You have to remember the Emira is small change in the big picture, it’s a transition model to show the world they have changed, The big prize is the EV models on the world stage

We had a similar situation in the UK around the early 2000’s New cars and trucks where coming in from Cyprus, grey imports. It went on for a few years then the EU made it financially unviable. If it came to that in the USA/ Canada, (which I’m pretty sure it never will as Lotus won’t be putting...

Too true. on a positive note for Lotus/Geely they built the new production facilitys, bought the machinery and designed the car pre inflation, I would imagine that to do the same in todays world would be much more expensive and may not even have happened. All in all, things could have been a lot...

I’m the opposite, love the all black, it would be boring if we were all the same🍻

And plenty of Bullshit too

Waiting it out might turn out alright, I remember the inflation rate hitting about 8% in 1988, the party carried on for a bit then there was a bad recession. I bought a new pick-up in 1991, £2k deposit then £25 a month for four years on a 0% deal. The auto company's like any other company like...

Quite possibly, personally it’s the Emira or nothing for me, so no worries here.

The wife was looking for a new car earlier in the year and the dealers were very “take it or leave it”. She chose to leave it, and several have rung recently to see if she was still looking. I drove past the local Toyota dealer today and you don’t have to be an accountant to see that they have...

Couldn’t agree more

Exactly right, patience is a virtue….. that a lot of Boomers don’t seem to have

Mañana in Bilbao is tomorrow Mañana in Andalucia is soon 🍻👍🇪🇸

I suppose it’s all as confusing as you want it to be, at 1500 kg she was never going to be a track queen, that belonged to the Exige. Yeah, the V6 and box is getting on in years…. So if it’s not for you there is the i4, can’t really get more up to date than that. with the UK ONTR starting price...

Or my old E class or my mums Honda Jazz

Hey fella, chance to win one of them cars you like, Revcomps.com. They don’t seem scammy, I won a Merc on there

A different perspective here, I had my first ride in a Lotus around 1975 and it was light years ahead of any other British sports car manufacturer. 16V all alloy engine, pop up headlights, low drag coeff, alloy wheels, handling to die for and attractive interiors. The other marques tended to be...

Will be a thousand miles on the i4 I reckon, no problem to me and will give me a chance to push the handling and breaking side of things, I had plenty of fun running the Elise in without going above 4000 RPM. BHP and RPM is only part of the fun of driving

Ah, las sur americanas😜

I agree with you, but it’s a start. The past delays and comms have been very frustrating, but I am starting to get the feeling it’s finally coming together

Well, it can’t be Christmas every day, things are coming together now, the experience will finally become a lot more exciting/enjoyable for everyone time to savor the moment imo

”Things not looking positive” ??? The Company has been criticised on here for lack of communication and they have reached out to their customers today, personally I would call that positive. Seems to me that it is all coming together

Time will tell, I am a priority customer with a pre launch deposit down. Lotus are aware that I want an i4 BE and they sent me this video along with a letter stating my car would be produced in 2023.Whether we are FE or BE customers we are all facing later delivery dates than first thought. I...

Absolutely spot on

How about stop/start technology, fairly cheap fix and can be bypassed by the owner after purchase. I don’t know if it would reduce the emissions enough wow, I just looked it up, special polymers needed on bearing journals, not to mention cooling bypass circuits and the like, certainly not an...

What ever side of the fence people want to sit, it’s all noise. Lotus have promised a great daily drivable allrounder at a fair price, we are all having to wait longer than expected because the world is in a mess. Accept it or move on imo

Flippers….I hope they catch a cold

Also attended Brands yesterday, I have slowed the video down considerably, but you can still see that the Porsche’s just can’t live with the Emira 😂

I know nothing, but the Emira is not that different from an Evora regarding structure, so, personally I would be surprised if this was the case….. time will tell