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My 2 penneth, test drove the Ashford demo today. The TLDR version: Looks great Drives great Sounds great Inside not great 3 out of 4 - pretty good The steering is amazing. I didn’t expect to notice that but it's the number one thing I remember from today. I'm no expert but think maybe the...

I’m quite looking forward, weather looks good and will at last get to back to back Exige and the Emira. But when are they going to learn that words count. A ‘Product demonstration’? It’s a sports car not a bloody washing machine! You have booked an Emira Test Drive with Lotus Kent at...

Yep I just got mine. Booked Ashford for Friday.

Hello again all (I’ve been taking a forum sabbatical whilst falling in love with my stand in Exige.) Dropping by with news I appear to be getting two, only one ordered.. Be nice if they spelt my name correctly. Hey ho, maybe I’ll get a spare invite to the test drive event.

Anyone interested in my EM22RRA plate? Happy to let it go for what I paid (DM if interested..) #forthememories!

Love that. The 4** cars must be utterly deranged if the 350 is anything to go by. Buy while stocks last! Price against Emira and similarity to well trimmed 350 stopped me. And man maths says the ‘saving’ might go some way towards a base.

Decided to take the customer experience into my own hands so to speak. Having grown tired of the delays, lack of love from Lotus for my deposit and then the change in shade for the yellow callipers (I am a confessed detail freak), I now have what I always wanted before the seductress Emira came...

Good point! Wonder if it might be me, given some changes seem to get allowed. That would be an amusing twist of fate!

I just given up my Oct build slot (8am 08/07/21 deposit) for a caliper change. As expected now 'sometime in 2023' and deposit order may be taken into account. Will be interesting to see if I get a call keeping my build in 2022. Not expecting it. Have to say it's like a first world weight has...

I've just spoken to Alex at CS confirming yellow>silver calliper change. As tempting as it is, I've decided against hopeful delivery in November (I had an Oct build slot) and having to sort out calipers, just seems a bit wrong on an 80k car. I get to mess about in my Yaris for the winter which...

Sir, you must share your calliper colour choice! It still gives me daily palpitations (even though I have already booked mine in for painting, colour matched to Hethel.) I’m also holding a ‘joker’ of changing my spec to silver or black, to punt delivery from November. Or maybe it’s a lottery...

Good things come to those who wait methinks. I bet I'm not the only V6 deposit holder wondering if the reviews for the I4 are going to say, "this is the modern power train it needed!" Granted probably followed up with, "we look forward to the more powerful version." I am hoping for some I4...

Always good to see a new post on this thread agreed! To reward your enthusiasm here's a pic of the car from Aus wearing silver wheels from the LDA DV car. Photoshop not the best but gave it a try as it's my spec (though I have the I wish they hadn't change the-colour yellow calipers).

Kind of colour I like seeing and respect other people for buying but could not do it myself. It's just so... grey!

Thanks for posting the pic - that's exactly my spec (though I think that car has the original dark yellow calipers, rather than the lotus logo lemon yellow being used for production, which is somewhat annoying!) When I spoke to Russell Carr at the dealer launch he said the original plan was for...

In Harry we trust (watched yet again last night, I'd love to know the repeat-play stats he's getting for this video!) In discussing Tour, I quote: “It floats over the bumps like I expect a Lotus to. It’s still firm, it’s still very sporting, steering is chattering away but I haven’t got that...

Might have been covered elsewhere but what is the likelihood of being able to drive both cars if dealer has sports and tour. I guess low as we would all want to do it! I was sport, then changed to tour. Expect I’ll be down to test drive tour. But if it’s too soft I think I’d switch back and go...

I expect it’s partly to do with the fear someone might spaff one into an immovable object. I was telling/boring my son with Emira test drive news just now and he said someone had crashed an M4 CSL on a test drive. Ouch.

Just history repeating itself and as frustrating as that can be, in our ultra analytical Emira-starved minds, to be somewhat expected. I’d be interested to know if an Esprit or Evora has ever won a comparison test. Lotus are the perennial underdog in the larger/luxury sports car segment. For a...

Unipart is still going, good for them. Though this sounds familiar!

If the test drives don’t confirm the dream (I hope they do) there may be a few of us fighting over that yellow 420 at B&C I think! Love it.

Does seem somewhat true. I’ve been ‘upgraded’ to join Tom and the other earlier depositors now looking at Oct build; previously I was the subsequent month. But that’s going back sometime now. However I think I’m right in saying we don’t yet know how Oct builds will be split in terms of...

I have spent much time entering Lotus used cars reg plates into this to see if you can run an Elise/Exige until the Emira is ready. Assume it's hooked up to the back-end of some other company/provider but it's interesting how an Elise 220S gets a PX value of within £1000 of current used price...

Yes ‘firmly’ irked me. Even when they get round to communicating the words are a bit off. I still love the car but this is more corporate tosh IMO.

FWIW at Goodwood when I asked if I could unlock my spec (Sept build slot) they said yes but you’ll get a ‘sometime in 2023 slot estimate as we won’t have production schedule for next year until December.’ When I pressed them they said they would probably try and keep early deposit holders as...

I am going to give this the sleep test and see how I feel in the morning. I wanted to change something on spec (calliper colour) and was warned it would delay build to ‘early 2023’. As I’ve just been pushed to October build/November delivery (from Sep/Oct) I’m really struggling to see a reason...

Well said. This is the answer to pretty much all the comparison questions. If I were a holistic lifestyle coach (I am not) I would prescribe this as a mantra to everyone on this forum who is finding the wait unbearable!

I have to say I was expecting a little more shine than that. They are very ‘subtle’. Hmm.

An optimistic view perhaps but if all UK dealers get 2 cars, that’s ‘only’ 44. I wouldn’t be surprised if what they said early in is true - that the first deposit holders will get cars very soon after the dealers. And that would be September. Though if they’re sending dealer cars outside the UK...