Stiffarm
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Anyone know the number of Emira cars to be allocated to the US in 2024, 2025 and to the end?
Selfishly, I hope the numbers are small and outstrip the demand!Even the actual answer internally is going to be uncertain, because it depends on how many they're able to build, vs how many they've decided to commit to allocations. For example if they get to a certain date without covering all of the allocated orders for MY24, those might become MY25 when they go to build. It's entirely unknown yet.
Selfishly, I hope the numbers are small and outstrip the demand!
That's right! The 2005-2017 DB9s and Vantages are available in the twenty or thirty thousands of cars, yet you don't see them everyday in most of America, and the supply chain is still noticeably smaller than Porsche/BMW/etc.Know what you mean, but that's a double edged sword. You'd want some number of cars out there to be well supported in terms of parts and service. IMO, even if there are 20K Emiras in the US, that's still a very small number.
Don’t be so sure 🤣No one knows except for Lotus. The only way to find out is to work for Lotus.
What other regions would use the same the North American VIN identifiers? Just curious. Or do you think the VIN's numbers get mixed in with ROW? So 2,500 Emira's built in total?We can't really use the vin serial number as an indicator as it includes cars for other regions as well. So far the VINs received have been into the 2500s and we know that over 1100 cars have arrived for US and Canada to date.
This gives us zero visibility into sales for 2025 cars because we have no idea what the order book looks like for Lotus.
If that's the case, the end of the V2's F/E's in North America should be somewhere in the 3000's maybe even pushing 4,000's?Yea that's what I believe is the case. The serial number likely is shared among all productions. Remember that they sold 2600 Emiras in 2023, this is combined 2023 MY and 2024 MY deliveries. We know they delivered very few cars in 2023. So my guess is they delivered about 1600 MY23 cars and about 1000 MY24 cars in 2023.
Not sure. I would expect no more than 1500 total FE 1.0 and 2.0 V6 manual cars for the US and Canada markets for MY24. I would be really surprised if there was more than that. So pushing into 3000s is probably likely, but I am not sure about 4000 - it depends on what the rest of the world demand is like. They are itching to start MY25 production and may have already started.If that's the case, the end of the V2's F/E's in North America should be somewhere in the 3000's maybe even pushing 4,000's?