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Worth a look, comments on depreciation of the Emira and my current purchase of the 570s!

Or something else??

MW: Great to be back after a few weeks away! Anon: welcome back sir MW: Been thinking we ought to start building some cars now. We've had a laugh showing customers our papermache mockups but its time to move the customer journey on. Anon: Great idea sir. That video was the crudagras! MW...

A slight tongue and cheek list of baffling Lotus communication from early days to now. I bet there's plenty I missed! Don't tell the dealers Pike Best we handle this, can't be that hard can it? The deposit anomaly Guess a number, the number of deposits and when you need to pay them. The...

In the last few days, UK dealers/agents have been getting paperwork(agreements) from Lotus regarding their loan cars, which are production test cars for the likes of you and me to drive. The cars have trackers and will be geo-fenced. Anticipated deliveries are 1st-2nd week in August.

Article in the telegraph says petrol car production at Lotus will cease next year. So either he's got his facts wrong or its a bizarre decision from Geely https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/06/28/lotus-stop-making-new-petrol-car-models-next-year/

Last week I did a track day in a Ford Fiesta, followed by a Elise then formula Ford. I've also tried a track day in my F Type. I had a professional driver with me which was great as you can chat about all sorts of things whilst waiting for your next drive. One of the topics was using road...

The embargo will be lifted from 12:00 BST on the 7th. Source: Mr Metcalfe

So with July looming I've been looking around for insurance. So far the car is not listed so I've been using the Evora GT410 2021 model value £80,0000. 5,000 miles per year. Best quote is £444 .. main stream insurance (Admiral) Does anyone use a specialist insurance company or has anyone got...

Just been in North devon and chatting to the nice folks who drive this around

Been hearing that a few June -> July deliveries have slipped to August. I think the June production run .. if there is one, will be small. Both delays were a few days before Goodwood deposits

Just had a call from Lotus confirming delivery on schedule for July and to restate my delivery preferences. Also there will be some new communication from Lotus tomorrow regarding (I think) test drives

If anyone is going on the tour from week beginning 23rd can you report on whether the factory has started production? This will give us our best estimate on when the car will finally arrive.

Feedback fromlast weeks dealer meeting is that the car drives extremely well, even against marquees at much higher price points. They had a few laps on their own then a few laps with the test drivers including Gav. I think we always knew this would be the case but it's good to get it confirmed...

I thought I might as well start a thread for this as many have been or are going.I went yesterday, there probably not much I saw that others have already said but these were my main takeaways: I enjoyed going! The car still looks amazing 👌 Big emphasis on quality control The interior...

Dealers are meeting at Hethel for 3 days Wednesday to Friday this week. Although they haven't been given much information about the meeting they are expecting to be given test drives and car allocation for demonstration purposes. Dealers are not buying the Emira but are being given cars by Lotus...

So as both my new cars have been pushed back to July I no longer have a car so I buying something for a stop gap. I've loved owning abarth and fiat 124s so I've opted for one of these. I'd prefer the abarth but .. using the Lotus px tool a £21k abarth comes in at 17k where as the 124 comes in at...

I've pretty much finished the garage for the Emira. Involved building a new storage shed to get the crap out the garage. Then: Dryline and insulate Plaster and paint Install spot lights and power sockets Refloat floor and paint with epoxy Add coving and skirting Heating New insulated garage door...

Thank you for your paitence while I looked into your query. We are still finalising timing and roll out of the Radar and Camera based features such as blind spot monitoring and we will confirm timing and availability in the comings weeks. Apologies I am unable to give any further details at...

Spoke to CS a few days ago and they indicated calls were about to start regarding how you want the car to be delivered to you. June deliveries. Options are 1) Dealer 2) Home 3) Hethel (£195) includes tour and food Seeing some posts on FB it appears they started today.

Ok... We got the wonky 'badge' but are there any other unique touches. A signed plate on the interior? Matt W signing the underside of the bonnet? ... A Cuddly toy ... Tea service...

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business-dealership%2C-sales-and-marketing/what-agency-retail-model-could-mean-lotus-and-its

Without doubt this is a non event month so looking forward to March we have some actual things happening. Looking through the forum, the following is hopefully correct: Proposed Production starts First Emira review I4 info and hopefully pricing Type 132 reveal Speculation Actual pictures of...

Just a bit of fun ... Poll for people that will definitely be buying the car England is divided into it's 9 geographical regions, for simplicity I've added the whole of Wales and Scotland, plus Ireland North and South - should have been called British Isles Poll ... sorry about that (couldn't...

I've been hearing that it is more likely that June / July customers will get thier cars before the dealers, as part of this Lotus will be running test drive track events for those customers. I'd say the source of this info is pretty good ... but as always, anything can happen!

Not sure if this is old news, but people are now being called regarding July deliveries

I've gone for yellow calipers and I'm pretty sure the colour won't match the wheel centre caps ... That's going to really bug me! Are the lotus centre caps just plastic ones so just replace them with something else? Or Perhaps stainless bushed steel centre nuts? Anyone replaced lotus caps...

I just can't decide on calipers and whether they're a thing or not! More than one choice if you want it

Been bought this for my birthday. I've done track days before in my own car (F-Type), but it's way too scary because of the other nutters on the track with their souped-up 20 year old fiestas Should be a few weeks before the Emira :-)

This should be the most accurate colour poll to date. Please make a choice if you are receiving the car in June and have finalised spec

So those of us that have had the 3rd call AND have asked to change spec have gone on to a spreadsheet. This is to enable Lotus to work out the impact of the changes. We will be called in January with the information as to any delay on your delivery. You can either stay with your orginal choice...

If you want to see Nimbus grey go to the Harry's Garage video around 11:55 mark, not super easy to get a good overall look but the mockup interior car is NG. Confirmed by Lotus

It appears that Lotus is communicating with the dealers now. I've just been updated that my car will be delivered in June, this will be in the first batch so there wont be any customer cars in May No futher deposit in the new year is required. Spec will be locked down as well as any finance...

I've been looking at the samples and configurator (AKA the random colour generator) and i think the TAN interior is a bit like the Cuoio Naturale? https://stevenjohnson.me/cars/ferrari-458-interior-colors/ https://www.millermotorcars.com/2018-ferrari-488-gtb-c-3362/#details-19 My thoughts on...

I'm starting to wonder that Lotus have just changed the names of their existing colours as discussed before. Fire red = magma red Laser blue = seneca blue?

Some nice new renders of blue and red from the FB group

Please select an interior colour choice. Will be interesting to see the material split and how many brave people there are :-)

Choose 1 from the colour and 1 from the black pack

If anyone has got photos of the interior samples can you post them pls? I can only find one that is pretty washed out

Just spoken to customer service. Seems that we should be able to test drive the car before final lock in. Currently they are deciding whether it will be at pop up events or at the dealers (agents) Test drive and final deposit 'early next year' Finanace 'early next year' but before final deposit