📓 Journals Another Happy Customer?

[mforde]

Congratulations. Looks great! Hearing people's first impressions upon receiving their cars keeps me excited for mine, hopefully next year if everything holds.

 

[GetawayDriving]

Attached interior taken at high noon, some in direct sunlight others in the shade. I'm really happy with the colour and quality. They've got the mix of red and black spot on in my opinion, would be too much with the entire doors/dash in red.

I've still yet to see my spec anywhere, which is exactly yours but without black pack. Love to see the red interior pics. For me, I hope to swap the red seats for black alcantara with red stitch variants. That's the perfect ratio I think. I saw a car with red dash but black seats in the factory, presumably before they had red seats available. It looked amazing.

 

[VL3X]

I saw a car with red dash but black seats in the factory

Wow, that would be nice matched with black/red Alcantara.

 

[lion shf]

I thought it would be rude not to go for the manual V6 as this ‘maybe’ my last ICE car.

I love this so much

 

[Briggo]

Too right ... I love it!

Just picked up today from Silverstone Lotus, big thanks to Aimee.

I've never owned a Lotus before, however, after having it for one day I'm super impressed and can't wait to get 1,000 miles on the clock to really let it go. Specification: Nimbus, Touring, Black Pack, Black Wheels, Red Interior and Red Calipers. My current car is a A45 AMG (which I'm keeping) and I’ve not owned a manual car since early 2000's so thought it would be rude not to go for the manual V6 as this ‘maybe’ my last ICE car.

Following my test drive I was a little deflated regarding the power, especially compared to my A45 but having owned the EMIRA for only one day and not even hitting the 4k RPM I'm not let down one bit, stands up to the A45 and plenty fast enough for UK roads. The test drive was a good route but due to conditions, not knowing the roads and not being my car, I was very cautious. I've always been a love of the EMIRA since launch, especially the styling, the fit and finish has come a long way in the past 12 months and have no issues with any seals, alignments or paintwork.


I’m not going to mention the usual stuff, planted to road, etc, etc, you’ve all been on here long enough and watched all the videos out there, one thing I will say, following my test drive I thought 7/10, after owning it for a day, I can’t fault it at the moment, 10/10. (even if I’ve got silver wheel bolts for a few weeks).

One last thing for now, if you get the GardX you get a nice Lotus branded bag full of Gardx goodies!

Looks great and enjoy! I have also gone for Nimbus & Black pack!

 

[Mr D]

GardX is the factory offered ceramic coating. More info in this thread.

The wheels bolts (Emira has wheel bolts instead of of lug nuts) typically match the wheel finish, but apparently the black bolts are on back order so cars with black wheels are getting contrasting silver bolts for now, but should be receiving matching bolts when available.

Hmmmm, originally all Chrome bolts then Persons complained that as part of Black Pack wheel bolts should be Black.
For all those so far that have "Black bolts", have a closer look. They are all painted in rework department putting a Grey undercoat on first then brush painted till new order comes in from South Africa believe it or not.
After a rattle gun or two true substance will be revealed.
Apparently NO Company between Hethel & South Africa able to make Black bolts.