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In my OP on the NSX I mentioned how good the car is modified, here is that difference in action.

10:45, want to take to my Komo-tec 460 car for a spin?

I can't friggin wait. I cut a trip short to make the date.

Small clip from a foliage cruise I run every year. My 400 is the lead car.

Its going to feel strange not modifying my Emira. I won't be modifying anything until I am 100% sure the Emira I have will be the Emira I will have forever. I am hoping that there will be legitimate upgrades before things go EV. I'll trade up until I can't. When I bought my 400 I was already...

Yep, having a toy or two makes this kind of a non-issue.

Depending on your roads, it could be a heavenly daily. I daily my 400 over the summer but I live in area where my town + the 7 contiguous towns is only 9000 people and 0 traffic lights.

Driving season does not start out here until April or May so there is no difference between late November and late March.

I already resigned myself to dealing with my car sitting at their showroom until spring comes to western MA. I've got the first one coming to the Boston area, but it will be a miracle if I drive it this year.

I only paid $1000. I also just dropped $5000 on mods and service though and that isn't even close to what the first round of mods cost.

Simple direct control is better.

I have a 460 HP Evora 400 with a lot of mods that I currently track, I will continue to track it. I don't plan to track my Emira until I am sure it is the last Emira I will own. I'm hoping there is a higher trim manual in the works. I will trade up if I can and when that is no longer an option...

Related to this, it is only a matter of time before we see the first cases of ransomware bricking a car until you pay. This will be extremely effective as losing access to your car for at least a day, paying for a tow and paying for a reflash will be a much bigger PITA than simply paying the...

I think the market for cars like the Emira will increase as performance EVs become big sellers. People will want a weekend toy to contrast against their completely numb EV rocket.

Waiting is a pain. Having a Lotus already makes it a lot easier.

With priorities like that, no idea why you were looking at Lotus to begin with. These cars are absolutely not for everyone. Everything you mentioned is true.

What I know about the Exige is that if I want an S3 in America, the process is expensive as holy hell and has questionable legality. At some point I probably will end up getting an S2 and upgrading the piss out of it. There are vids on youtube of an Exige that I believe has the 3.5 bored out to...

I'm from the "sometimes 70 in December, sometimes snows in May" part of the US.

Shortcomings are subjective, everyone has a different priority list. For example, part of the fun for me is almost never seeing another one. Other people could not possibly care less about that.

The NSX is actually an amazing car IF you are willing to modify. The stock car just isn't up to its potential and not "super" enough. The gap between a stock NSX and the way I have mine configured is night and day. If the NSX was released closer to how I have mine configured, they would have had...

That is hilarious because I often tell people a Lotus is like that freaky GF that you can never get out of your head even though she wasn't perfect.

Related to my post above, one of my better buddies just traded his 911 Turbo S for a manual C7. He said that the Porsche was just too good. He said it felt like driving with cheat codes on and getting the car to its limit was just too hard and too infrequent. This is not a unique story either...

I tell people all the time that if they are torn between a Porsche and a Lotus, just buy the Porsche. The Porsche is objectively a better car but in all the ways it is better, I do not personally have those attributes as a priority. Lotus owners prioritize the unique feeling they get in a Lotus...

People are more likely to pay a little over time than they are to pay a lot up front, even if the over time bill is far larger. EVs will be the ultimate tools to exploit this. 1 single assembly line will create a car with unlimited pay as you go options. This also allows the maker to take a car...

The Evora is pretty awesome at 460HP so yep, I can see that as long as there isn't a super expensive gimp somewhere in the system. I'm also getting a manual Supra and I wont even be driving it stock.

I'm in a pretty huge car community and everyone from the BRZ owners to the owners of 300K+ cars modifies their cars. Both of my 100K+ cars are modified and so is my Evora 400.

I'd like to see them stick with Toyota and make an Emira hybrid using Toyota's inline 3 as the ICE part. EV is inevitable but its just not the same without the noise. I'm willing to make compromises to have my sports car sound like a sports car.

I would not say performance, feel would be more accurate.

Just PPF because I intend to trade up as better Emiras become available. When the final ICE manual Emira is in my hands, I will modify it quite a bit.

I am expecting to get mine after the snow flies so there is no difference between late November and spring of 2023. It is what it is, glad I have a modified Evora 400 to keep me entertained.

Way easier to just flip the car to someone that actually wants your spec. The dealership can get in on that and do all the work for you taking a chunk of the markup. There has to be a lot of demand for that to work though. This is happening with the NSX type S right now where a bunch of buyers...

Same thing is going to happen with the 400Z. I started looking at getting one as a backup fun car and it looks like orders are already years out. Flippers love markets like this. The need for instant gratification = $.

Blue was without question my first choice but since I already have a blue Lotus (and blue NSX), I went with green for a change.

Your dealership should at the very least know the order of their list. Sharing the order, that is a completely different story. I got confirmation that I was getting the first Emira coming to my dealership last spring but still had to wait until Feb 1st to finalize the order and they were very...