1300 miles in and all I can say is the car is EPIC!
Road trip across the Pennines from Hexham (B6295) across to Penrith and back, and then enjoyed it so much, we when back and did it again the next day, what a road and what a car, in its element and exactly the roads it was made for. I’m coming from a Caterham 420r and it felt as much fun, if not more! Sticks to the road like nothing else, and just feels so instinctive, makes you feel like you can push and push. The steering is sublime and exactly as I had hoped, inspires confidence with so much feel. I have Sports suspension with goodyears. Yes, sports is stiff but not crashy and perfect for what I want the car to be. The power for me is perfect for the British roads, and never left wanting for more, so again really not an issue for me. You can really use all of the power all the time, without feeling like you are about to lose control.
Everywhere you stop people ask about it, all positive but not something I was expecting. Either people who know about the Emira and just want to know about it, alternatively people who don’t have a clue what it is but just love the way it looks. It gets serious attention.
The storage is quite surprising too, you can get a lot more in than you would think especially behind the seats. Two sets of golf clubs no problem.
The exhaust to me is lovely too, pops and burbles on the down shift, screaming supercharger at high revs and sounds lovely from outside too and def gets noticed. I haven’t taken it out of Sport or Track. In Tour it is definitely more muted but that’s how it’s meant to be.
I had mine track PPF’d and ceramic coated and would recommend it, the car is low and I would worry too much about scratches etc, especially using the car how it should be driven. I look after my cars but am not precious about them and drive them how they should be driven. So the ppf just gives me peace of mind.
I do appreciate, some people maybe early adopters have had issues but my car (31st April registration date) has been near perfect. I think they must have ironed out a lot of not all of the major issues. Other issues, people mentioned on the forums, to me, are just not issues at all, yes the boot gets hot and melts ice cream but it’s a sport car!!!
The only issues I can think of, is sometime the CarPlay doesn’t connect, so you have to do it manually in your phone, non issue for me. The other is reverse when cold can be tough to get in, but after you put it in and out of 3rd, then it goes in no problem, so just do it without thinking now. Apparently this is common to Lotus.
Another thing I enquired about is a rattling noise when doing full lock and very slow speeds, sounds a bit unnerving but again this happens in all models apparently?
I just wanted to write this review independently as I followed the forum intensively before getting mine and was so worried about a lot of the issue and problems mentioned on here and almost pulled my deposit and am so glad I didn’t Now the car has arrived, most have become so insignificant, and just non issues.
I do of course appreciate some people have suffered major issues which I would be very unhappy about too, but most of the issues are very minor of issues and just negativity the car doesn’t deserve.
For all in the que or near delivery, if your car is anything like mine it is absolutely amazing I can’t stop smiling and driving it.
Honestly, even when I wake up and see it on my drive, I still can’t believe it’s mine.
I feel most the forum is full of people’s negative experience of the car rather than positive. I guess that’s the problem with forums, most of the times it going to people venting about issues, as the people with no issues are out loving the car, hence why I felt I needed to write this. Indeed I have barely been on the forum since I took delivery and have now gained about 2 hours a day back of my life
Stick in there, it is 100000% worth the wait!
Road trip across the Pennines from Hexham (B6295) across to Penrith and back, and then enjoyed it so much, we when back and did it again the next day, what a road and what a car, in its element and exactly the roads it was made for. I’m coming from a Caterham 420r and it felt as much fun, if not more! Sticks to the road like nothing else, and just feels so instinctive, makes you feel like you can push and push. The steering is sublime and exactly as I had hoped, inspires confidence with so much feel. I have Sports suspension with goodyears. Yes, sports is stiff but not crashy and perfect for what I want the car to be. The power for me is perfect for the British roads, and never left wanting for more, so again really not an issue for me. You can really use all of the power all the time, without feeling like you are about to lose control.
Everywhere you stop people ask about it, all positive but not something I was expecting. Either people who know about the Emira and just want to know about it, alternatively people who don’t have a clue what it is but just love the way it looks. It gets serious attention.
The storage is quite surprising too, you can get a lot more in than you would think especially behind the seats. Two sets of golf clubs no problem.
The exhaust to me is lovely too, pops and burbles on the down shift, screaming supercharger at high revs and sounds lovely from outside too and def gets noticed. I haven’t taken it out of Sport or Track. In Tour it is definitely more muted but that’s how it’s meant to be.
I had mine track PPF’d and ceramic coated and would recommend it, the car is low and I would worry too much about scratches etc, especially using the car how it should be driven. I look after my cars but am not precious about them and drive them how they should be driven. So the ppf just gives me peace of mind.
I do appreciate, some people maybe early adopters have had issues but my car (31st April registration date) has been near perfect. I think they must have ironed out a lot of not all of the major issues. Other issues, people mentioned on the forums, to me, are just not issues at all, yes the boot gets hot and melts ice cream but it’s a sport car!!!
The only issues I can think of, is sometime the CarPlay doesn’t connect, so you have to do it manually in your phone, non issue for me. The other is reverse when cold can be tough to get in, but after you put it in and out of 3rd, then it goes in no problem, so just do it without thinking now. Apparently this is common to Lotus.
Another thing I enquired about is a rattling noise when doing full lock and very slow speeds, sounds a bit unnerving but again this happens in all models apparently?
I just wanted to write this review independently as I followed the forum intensively before getting mine and was so worried about a lot of the issue and problems mentioned on here and almost pulled my deposit and am so glad I didn’t Now the car has arrived, most have become so insignificant, and just non issues.
I do of course appreciate some people have suffered major issues which I would be very unhappy about too, but most of the issues are very minor of issues and just negativity the car doesn’t deserve.
For all in the que or near delivery, if your car is anything like mine it is absolutely amazing I can’t stop smiling and driving it.
Honestly, even when I wake up and see it on my drive, I still can’t believe it’s mine.
I feel most the forum is full of people’s negative experience of the car rather than positive. I guess that’s the problem with forums, most of the times it going to people venting about issues, as the people with no issues are out loving the car, hence why I felt I needed to write this. Indeed I have barely been on the forum since I took delivery and have now gained about 2 hours a day back of my life
Stick in there, it is 100000% worth the wait!
