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Not for long! The car is so delayed at this point the final V6 order might already be in the queue.

It’s so frustrating. Imagine how much goodwill Lotus could earn by just having a marketing person do a 5 minute Instagram video from the factory floor each week with the latest status. Would cost absolutely nothing, but mean the world to depositors.

My worry is finding 18’s that will fit around the stock calipers. I notice the GT4 is running Wilwoods and I could swear it’s a smaller(!) disc up front.

I wonder how much a little camber and toe out tweak could convince the Goodyears to turn in more aggressively, at the cost of a little extra tire wear.

Question: were Sports and Tour noticably different in camber?

This is the single most informative post in weeks. Thanks for sharing the info and photos!

Is Lotus still doing factory tours? Or have those all stopped?

Only if they were DV.

Looks phenomenal in white. Should have been a launch color, maybe instead of SG.

Definitely keep the 718 lest you end up with no fun car for all of 2023. 30k is nice, but not worth wasting a year of your life.

I also suspect a bit of renewed interest from the folks who had been planning to get a Z06 under 90k, now that pricing has finally been announced.

I'm still fuzzy on the input method. Do the cars all ship with buttons for heated seats that are just non-functional if you don't subscribe? Or have they moved all the controls to the touchscreen and there are no physical buttons?

Just FYI from what I remember, Naples did get the most allocations, which I believe was 50 total FE's. Bellevue 45, Boardwalk 40, I don't remember the rest. But quite a few depositors dropped out over time so later depositors made the cut in some cases.

I don't quite get why they create an advert for the Evija at all. Surely for a total market of 20 people worldwide there's a better targeted approach. (e.g. hand out swag at Davos or the Monaco F1 race) Would be nice if Lotus would concentrate more on actually building cars, but hey what do I...

Maybe Lotus can install GPUs in the seatbacks instead of simple electrical coils. Then when you turn on the heated seats you also get some useless Lotus NFTs minted on your behalf.

You're leaving out staff expenses. Keeping a few hundred people sitting around a factory polishing the robots waiting for parts gets expensive quick.

So is _anything_ coming out of the factory at all? Or is it just a cash bonfire? I'm honestly curious how long Lotus can keep afloat without selling any cars.

Has anyone done a factory tour since Goodwood? Have they built _ANY_ production cars yet? As far as I can tell now in the middle of July 2022 there are less than 20 Emiras produced worldwide all-time, and the factory is still sitting idle. But I'd love to be wrong.

Hoping I'll have a Lotus by the 2023 event!