I was Charged FE 2.0 price for a FE 1.0… but there is a twist

[Go Kart]

Mine has it too by the passenger footwell.

 

[Subw00er]

My 1.0 has it.

 

[Maurice R]

I’m sure you’ve posted this elsewhere, but just to (for no other reason than we’re all bored here waiting for our cars) put some context to things: what was roughly your “I specced the car and don’t get my deposit back” date, and what was your production month?

Specked the car back in March 2022
My deposit $2500 was fully refundable until I paid for the car
Believe it went into production late September 2023
Arrived in Dallas mid December

 

[73JPS]

Specked the car back in March 2022
My deposit $2500 was fully refundable until I paid for the car
Believe it went into production late September 2023
Arrived in Dallas mid December

And you have a complimentary footwell cargo net 😜.

I rest my case… well, not just MY case… there are a bunch on here who have already pleaded, protested, and championed the same thing.

As far as Lotus in Hethel are concerned, there is no such thing as a differentiation between FE1 and FE2: it’s a delineation made elsewhere (by Lotus NA?) to explain a price difference with the offset being more colour choices (yes, I spelled “colour” correctly), and likely at the time the extra allotments were made for North America, it was assumed that the two tranches would come at somewhat disparate times. It was assumed that the first tranche would be built before some minor planned production changes, and the second tranche would be built after.

What happened in reality, though, is that both allotments were built together (“ish”) after the planned production changes, so it‘s passenger footwell cargo nets for everybody!

“You get a passenger footwell cargo net! And YOU get a passenger footwell cargo net! And YOU… “ Well, y’all get the idea 😏

 

[Rupes]

OP, how are you enjoying your car?

My suggestion, don’t dwell on it. Easy for me to say, I know, but in the grand scheme, does it really matter? Most of us are still waiting for something you got to jump the queue for.

I hope you get many years of entertainment and this becomes a distant memory.

 

[Emirahouston]

OP, how are you enjoying your car?

My suggestion, don’t dwell on it. Easy for me to say, I know, but in the grand scheme, does it really matter? Most of us are still waiting for something you got to jump the queue for.

I hope you get many years of entertainment and this becomes a distant memory.

Yes I absolute love the car and I’m not dwelling on it. I just thought it was really shady but then again I’m not really surprised coming from this dealership. I just got the car back from PPF so now it’s just time to enjoy it

 

[Go Kart]

Yes I absolute love the car and I’m not dwelling on it. I just thought it was really shady but then again I’m not really surprised coming from this dealership. I just got the car back from PPF so now it’s just time to enjoy it
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What did you do with the wheels? They look like a nice color.

 

[Emirahouston]

What did you do with the wheels? They look like a nice color.

Thanks it’s called brass monkey but it actually needs to be redone. I think they didn’t spray them evenly so sometimes they look great but on other angles they look totally different , some areas are too brown, other are too silver. It’s weird. That’s my next mod, to get them redone so they look like on the picture above all the time and under every angle

 

[Emirahouston]

What did you do with the wheels? They look like a nice color.

You can see here it’s doing some weird things: