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A $4.5 billion valuation I don't think is bad from their initial target of $5-6 billion for IPO last year. There's A LOT of FUD in the stock market and especially around electric car manufacturers and especially especially around new and growing ones. It's been a lot harder for the companies to...

Great to hear! Definitely looking forward to the info and pictures when you get back. Enjoy the rest of your time.

The 1000km range is based on China's range metric, which tends to be very generous. I think I previously calculated like EPA range is 60% of Chinese range? So it'd be 372 miles of range, which is still really good but an incremental step forward and not game changing. I'm not sure about the...

Like Nova is saying, the Emira won't be getting a lot of tech and performance in the Mercedes C43 or C63. The C63 achieves 476 HP with its electric turbo, which is actually bigger than the one in the C43 since it can utilize the 400V battery. I wouldn't be surprised if the engine and turbo...

It still looks really dark. I know it seems like there's a lot of color variation amongst all the different pictures, but all of them are accurate. The car and color will look like every picture at some point based on the brightness, sunlight angle, and cleanliness. I had a similar situation...

Apologies but there are some objectively false assessments of the Emira interior vs other cars. It's possible to quantify the material quality and costs of an interior, so it's not as subjective as some would think. The Emira is definitely quantifably better than the Sorento and probably a bit...

The letter defending the Emira wasn't even bad. It boiled down to "why does Evo complain about the manual? At least we get one; long live the manuals. If you don't like a manual, there's still a dual clutch." No response to the letter. But coincidentally, Jethro wrote a column, in the section...

I don't really like this article. It has very little new information and it's more about Lotus Advanced Performance than about the future of Lotus as a whole. And even then, it doesn't reveal much new about the LAP group when there's so much not yet known about their direction.

Yeah, I still miss that feeling from seeing the green in the very first configurator.

The paint quality seems to look really good too. No orange peel in the glossy reflections.

Oh God, the infotainment and vents are off center from the center tunnel and AC controls. Honestly not a big deal, but that would always bother me a little bit lol.

Oh hey, Kai is the Lotus social media guy in charge of their popular TikTok account. Maybe it'll show up there.

The (potential) partnership between Alpine and Lotus actually sounds quite similar in scale to the partnership between Toyota and BMW for the latest Supra. Co-development on the specs of a platform, based on parts/manufacturing of one of them, and maybe sharing the dev costs. There's no...

The Polestar 6 and Lotus Type 135 are on different platforms. The Polestar will be on a bonded platform based on the Polestar 5 sedan, using tech from Polestar's R&D facility in the UK. While this sounds very similar to Lotus, they're different teams and different products. The Polestar platform...

Not sure if anyone posted these real life photos from Reddit yet from this post:

Reviving this thread because Henry mentioned the Emira in comparison to a long term M4. It didn't seem to compare favorably lol.

I'd really hope so! But the hollowed out shape in the middle covered vehicle REALLY matches the Emira with the missing door. It's hard to convince myself it's anything else. The farther vehicle could be Type 133 or 135 though, since it's hard to tell what it is/isn't.

You're probably right 🥲. It's odd the video guy says "who knows what's under this... I've seen it, you haven't" if it's just an Emira model, but he's probably just messing around.

What do you guys think the 3 covered vehicles are in the design studio? This shows the "closest" vehicle, and it has an Emira cover and a silhouette very similar to Emira, so I'm assuming it's some Emira variant maybe. Picture shows the "farthest" and middle vehicles. It looks like the...

Looks great! What wrap brand and color is that?

The guy has a TikTok that has a lot of this stuff. Nice with some of the super luxury vehicles. The switch gear actually sounds more well-made and tighter than I expected. I'd say it competes in the same tier as Porsche/Audi's buttons.

This custom green color a YouTuber collaborated with Aston Martin on is my perfect green. The first few seconds of video are enough to get the idea. It's the perfect amount of dark to be a dark green, but it still has a distinct green color to not cross into black. And it has a slight amount...

If it's the validation prototype from a few months ago, Chris should love it. Like even in the written review by Jethro in Evo, he said the previous prototype had balanced on-limit behavior that was surprisingly better than the most recently reviewed cars. So unless Chris got access to a recent...

Providing some known details about Type 135 that were mentioned. It's off-topic, but I'll take my opportunities to talk about Type 135 :). Current horsepower targets are up to 335 hp for continuous power and 469 hp for temporary peak power. This is from a single motor for the rear axle. Dual...

I can see why people think this looks like a Ferrari. Imagine you don't know about Lotus and you see this across the parking lot. It's pretty reminiscent of the 488. The interior seats still don't have the 3 embossed lines, so I guess they still aren't production spec yet?

For people who've been on the tour and have seen Dark Verdant in person, are these driving academy photos accurate to the color saturation? From what people have said, the renders, and the configurator, I would think the actual color is blacker, more glossy, and has less green standing out...

Thanks for the write up! Since you mentioned it, any details on Type 135? :)

Are those the frameless side mirrors that Volvo owns a patent on? It seems like the tech sharing or general collaboration between Geely companies very close, vs them putting on an image of several separate companies with separate engineering groups. For example, the Lotus Evija had an interior...

If they wanted to scramble Elan, they could've also gone with Lotus Lane like Superman's Lois Lane haha.

Share it :devilish:

I have a car that's similar color: it's a very dark, glossy blue that normally doesn't have much character but shines a sparkly blue when reflecting sunlight. The sparkle is the best part, but you only get it if the sun is hitting it right and if you keep the car clean, and then the sparkle is...

Maybe Lotus has just been waiting for a sunny day in Hethel and they just haven't had one in the last few months.