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 along.
My November delivery is now consigned to the ‘sometime in 2023’ option (silver callipers it is then.) The tipping point? My Emira spec (almost) came up on a car I always wanted and can have right now. It may sound familiar..
V6 manual
Solid yelllow
No black pack (roof, front inspection panel, wing)
Alcantara yellow stitch
Exposed gear linkage
Modern tech, oh ok that’s nowhere to be seen but it has an exhaust valve button, a single wiper and twin back lights. Things of joy.
I figure I now have time for Emira test drive, I4 reviews (hopefully test drive) and finding out if this is all the Lotus I need. I love that it’s the slightly lightened one with the Bond style louvres and generally how pure and barking mad it is. I now get why some reviews said the engine and box are a bit old school. They’re a massive part of, if not the defining character in the Exige. Agricultural maybe, mechanical definitely. I can believe the I4 might suit the luxury in the Emira more, if they haven’t polished the edges. I genuinely hope they have.
To drive the Exige is surprisingly tractable and compliant(ish) at slow traffic pace and a demented howling banshee with the revs up. I love it but it’s intense as a sports bike and about as hard to get in and out of as one piece leathers. Very special on the right open roads. Somewhat masochistic elsewhere.. Hmm. It’s definitely a thing to cherish.
So my Emira journey is in my hands as much as Lotus’ now, to an extent. The next few months should be fun. And that’s what it should be about, like back in July 2021.
A dog who thought it was getting an Emira (didn’t we all)
An Exige 350 Sport not looking remotely scared of its new good looking sibling
My November delivery is now consigned to the ‘sometime in 2023’ option (silver callipers it is then.) The tipping point? My Emira spec (almost) came up on a car I always wanted and can have right now. It may sound familiar..
V6 manual
Solid yelllow
No black pack (roof, front inspection panel, wing)
Alcantara yellow stitch
Exposed gear linkage
Modern tech, oh ok that’s nowhere to be seen but it has an exhaust valve button, a single wiper and twin back lights. Things of joy.
I figure I now have time for Emira test drive, I4 reviews (hopefully test drive) and finding out if this is all the Lotus I need. I love that it’s the slightly lightened one with the Bond style louvres and generally how pure and barking mad it is. I now get why some reviews said the engine and box are a bit old school. They’re a massive part of, if not the defining character in the Exige. Agricultural maybe, mechanical definitely. I can believe the I4 might suit the luxury in the Emira more, if they haven’t polished the edges. I genuinely hope they have.
To drive the Exige is surprisingly tractable and compliant(ish) at slow traffic pace and a demented howling banshee with the revs up. I love it but it’s intense as a sports bike and about as hard to get in and out of as one piece leathers. Very special on the right open roads. Somewhat masochistic elsewhere.. Hmm. It’s definitely a thing to cherish.
So my Emira journey is in my hands as much as Lotus’ now, to an extent. The next few months should be fun. And that’s what it should be about, like back in July 2021.
A dog who thought it was getting an Emira (didn’t we all)
An Exige 350 Sport not looking remotely scared of its new good looking sibling
