Keeping it in Tour only for the first 1000 miles has been present in the manual for all i4 cars (it was added in to the manual at the same time as the i4). It wasn't present in the manual when the manual just covered the V6 (where there was no drive mode restriction). I believe it was added in...
There's still no exemplar fixed price service costs for the i4 on the Lotus website
Like Andy I also qualified for the free service plan and this will likely be the case for most if not all the early cars so it may be a while still before there is any indication of how individual service costs...
It has been mentioned before that Lotus have been referring to the 4cyl car internally as the Emira Turbo for quite some time now, essentially since they stopped using the i4 designation following complaints from BMW.
Not in the central panel, but it is possible to get some navigation directions fed through from Android Auto as a small icon on the right hand side of the drivers display. (Carplay may be the same, but don't have experience to say either way)
I can't remember exactly how you get to it (and...
The Eletre is certainly helping Lotus out here, as per DVLA registration figures (which I posted here) there were more Eletres (322) registered in the first half of 2024 than Emiras (280). Neither of which are huge numbers of course, but at least there shouldn't be an additional whammy of...