Pretty simple answer to this. I have never left a car stock. I prefer to modify vehicles to my exact desire. I realize there are traditionalist that prefer stock cars I'm just not one of them. I think the Emira is a great starting point for what I want. I respect and understand the traditionalist group that prefer bone stock.
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I think with all the safety implementations, cost cutting and move to making cars more accessible to all, there is always a bit of 'personalisation' required to get the car exactly how you would like it
And indeed I have.
As an owner of several Lotus cars & other specialist cars, I’m used to all that entails.
But, outright BS from anyone, let alone a company selling you a product costing £80k+, is just not worth putting up with. And, usually, is only the thin edge of a large wedge.
I’m relaxed though, Geely-Lotus will sell the slot to someone else. I’ll just spend my money somewhere else.
Everyone is happy
Pretty agro way of just telling people they don't need to buy it. Chill out man.
It only just occurred to me that I too have modified every single car I have ever owned... not radically (I have tended to drive sleepers until I dropped an order on the Emira), but usually tweaked/replaced certain things in a way that was sympathetic to looking "factory". Is there a name for this condition?
I suffer from the same condition, I usually just call it being too poor to buy the car I actually want.It only just occurred to me that I too have modified every single car I have ever owned... not radically (I have tended to drive sleepers until I dropped an order on the Emira), but usually tweaked/replaced certain things in a way that was sympathetic to looking "factory". Is there a name for this condition?
Ok... I think you nailed it
EDIT: to add more colour (color to our US friends), the current "family beater" (purchased many years ago now) serves as a good example for my affliction... I absolutely could have come home with a nearly-new Audi RS6 Avant and man-mathed my way to victory, but being a Responsible Adult, I went for a high-spec turbo-diesel, citing good mileage and sensible service costs to myself as the reason. I immediately started fiddling with the suspension, exhaust, bodywork (rear skirt and front grille), and engine tuning to make it more than it was from the factory... but with the explicit purpose of making it look like it was some factory special edition. What a sad and pathetic creature I am. Cue midlife crisis and an Emira.
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I’m not out. Sorry to disappoint you
I’m getting the Emira FE to add to my Evora GT and keeping both.
Also have a deposit on the Eletre.
Just tired of some folks who complain continually about silly little stuff continually over the last year.
Mate aren’t you just the best
. As you are entitled to your opinions, so are others. Move on champ if you don’t like that….Won’t disappoint me good luck will keep enjoying my evora to and look forward to my boxster gts in the autumn and await my 4 qt 2023 cayman gt4 rS , a slot I happened to have having been disappointed with my Newley arrived 911 gt3 and resold it back to the Porsche dealer with a 30k profit , shows even the Porsche marque get things out of kilter ! The difference amounting to a committed dealer network (Porsche)and no dealer network in the newly formed geely lotus not the lotus of old , in fact not lotus at all but a Chinese conglomerate trying to squeeze every last drop of profit from there investment ; while destroying what used to be true car company run by committed car guys ,god help you if the emira breaks down !
emiraspain
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I think they do, its just an unwritten messageLotus should use this in their marketing.
, but understood by many haha
emiraspain
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is this now not a Lotus forum at all, but instead a look at me and what I have got and what I am going to get forum....
wow, calm down.....
You dont want the Emira, fine, no need to attack the rest of us who do surely???
Lotus have a poor network of dealers and are trying to move away from dealers, this does not happen over night and yes it will be a tuff couple of years and yes the first cars may have issues, this is true of most manufacturers, so simply dont get one, but no need to be nasty about it is there?
Me.
Tom E mentioned these for Evora https://www.boefab.com/products/evora-lowering-cupsDo you think OHLINS will design a road and track kit? I like LOW
Hopefully the same thing will be made for Emira.
Do you think OHLINS will design a road and track kit? I like LOW
Um.. Middletown with a white VAG vehicle and Neuspeeds!? Hello neighbor.. we have a Delaware spotting thread here.
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Sell me the NSX!
"there stupid..." careful with the spelling chap or ye might get lumped into the wrong category...
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