Does the car scrape easily?

[luciddaydream]

Hi there
Does the Emira scrape easily?
Like moreso than a Porsche 911?

Sorry I realize that is kind of a hard comparison without knowing both cars.

The emira seems to sit a bit high and I want to lower it slightly, but, I don't want to if it will scrape more than the 911 that I've had in the past.

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According to google search, the 911's ground clearance is

4.5

The emira's is 5 inches.

So that gives me a half inch to play with.. it seems.

But I am not sure if "ground clearance" is the proper way to check the height of the front lip.



Thanks a lot.

 

[Rapture]

I'd love to see a low angle (smartphone propped up on the floor) movie at the bottom of the ramp!

You want a video of the car negotiating the bottom of the ramp. I could do that; it may take a day or two.

 

[JCOz]

Hi Lucciddaydream

I have a driveway that slopes down. My stock standard 997 CS, hits the front splitter if I don't get the angle perfect.

The Emira does not seem to have any issues.

In comparing the two, the 997 seems to have more overhang than the Emira, especially in the front, centre of the car.

 

[Iamjameelg]

My car is all PPF so i dont know

 

[Subw00er]

I believe I read it had a better approach angle than a Boxster. Its pretty good, I went over stuff I would have scraped on with my other cars, and it didn't.

 

[robrmon]

I believe I read it had a better approach angle than a Boxster. Its pretty good, I went over stuff I would have scraped on with my other cars, and it didn't.

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That’s a cool visual, where do you get that from? Can you compare any cars?

 

[Subw00er]

That’s a cool visual, where do you get that from? Can you compare any cars?

I totally stole that pic from another forum member, but it must be a website somewhere.

 

[T6061]

Lotus Emira 2022-present vs. Porsche 911 2019-2024

Lotus Emira Coupé 2022-present vs. Porsche 911 Coupé 2019-2024. Compare car dimensions (length, width and height) vs. street perspective.

www.carsized.com

Pretty decent database of cars to compare - even some long out of production models...hours of fun!

 

[Rapture]

I believe I read it had a better approach angle than a Boxster. Its pretty good, I went over stuff I would have scraped on with my other cars, and it didn't.

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That spec sheet is old. The approach angle is close to 9 degrees. The car does not have the rubber lip shown on that picture.

 

[Bear Dalton]

IMO - I would keep it the way it is. It was designed at this height to make it more daily-able. I find that it is very nice to not have to scrunch-up as I feel the cars pain pulling in and out of areas. Most exotics and prior generation Loti, we would have to drive around the lot to the back road to go out instead of pulling in and out of the front lot. The ease of just doing whatever is quite nice really. I also haven't found any inability of handling that would lead me to want to alter the suspension. I dunno, man, I think it's pretty awesome the way it is.

 

[Emira28]

16 months of ownership and I'm yet to scrape, which is saying something considering the speed bumps around our area. In standard spec I don't think scraping is an issue.

 

[Maurice R]

Have not scrapped anything yet.
The rubber lip on the Evora GT was for me a problem scraped many time.
I had to replace it at least 4 times and reattached at least another 5 or 6 times

 

[Subw00er]

I scraped for the first time yesterday! I thought it was one of those little bumpers under, but there was not a mark on the front lip anywhere! I looked back and it actually had hit that little plastic piece in front of the front wheels. Its weird that something so far back hit first, but I can see why they made it that way.. less chance of breaking the bumper on that more solid area, and the plastic pieces are probably really cheap to replace.

 

[Stiffarm]

I scraped for the first time yesterday! I thought it was one of those little bumpers under, but there was not a mark on the front lip anywhere! I looked back and it actually had hit that little plastic piece in front of the front wheels. Its weird that something so far back hit first, but I can see why they made it that way.. less chance of breaking the bumper on that more solid area, and the plastic pieces are probably really cheap to replace.

I have scraped several times over uneven driveway approaches, concrete swales and ramps. I added SLIP LO pieces to the underside of the spoiler just for protection.

 

[@Life411]

I believe I read it had a better approach angle than a Boxster. Its pretty good, I went over stuff I would have scraped on with my other cars, and it didn't.

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Where did you get this cool diagram?!? It's a little fuzzy...would love to check out the source.

 

[@Life411]

That spec sheet is old. The approach angle is close to 9 degrees. The car does not have the rubber lip shown on that picture.

Guessing since you didn't include one that you're not aware of an updated spec sheet that's available somewhere?

 

[@Life411]

This and the older thread on this topic were super useful! Seems the Executive Summary is that the Emira provides a decent amount of front-end clearance compared to many sports cars and definitely a ton more than my Elise!

I guess the one caution I'll add for USA/CAD owners is about concrete parking blocks. One of the local Emira owners told me he miscalculated and scraped on one of these. Evidently some are the exact perfect height to scrape the front before those alloy bumpers which are located a few inches in. Something about putting the car in neutral on approach turned off or reset the parking sensors so they didn't detect it. Hope this helps someone avoid a problem.

 

[Rapture]

Guessing since you didn't include one that you're not aware of an updated spec sheet that's available somewhere?

I had trouble uploading another version prior. This is from the UK owner's manual. When I searched a while back, I did find multiple versions of this. The approach angle in this is more accurate than the one above. Looks like it is due to removing that rubber piece that is shown in the prior versions, and also on the configurator views.