I wish I was that optimisticI'm convinced the Emira is a bargain now and will be considered even more of a bargain over the years.
I still maintain that the price of our early Emiras will never drop down below the price we pay for them.

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I wish I was that optimisticI'm convinced the Emira is a bargain now and will be considered even more of a bargain over the years.
I still maintain that the price of our early Emiras will never drop down below the price we pay for them.
I think it will be made in too many numbers to be a sure fire depreciation free win.Ha, a common trait in my personality... the eternal optimist -sometimes annoyingly so.
I can't see it going down.
By the time there are more Emiras on the road, in the thousands, it will be a few years hence.
They will already be standing out against the then only available DCT i4.
Costs are pushing up prices anyway. I reckon that even the base i4 Lotus will be more than what we are paying for the V6 FE in a few years time.
Then there is the 'I must get a manual, non-turbo, mostly analogue sports car' sentiment as we near EV dominance.
On top of that, there will no better looking car made - perhaps ever.
In fantasy I think you are spot on. This thing should be above a cayman, there is really no other cayman alternative, and there has to be a huge (Iām biased) market for a mid engine mini supercar that is āattainableā. Letās face it, the emira looks soooo amazing that it deserves maybe not even an in house but something more special than the v6 it has.I know, was just an observation, all too late in the day for sure.
Basically I was just saying the Emira looked so good and has moved the game on so much for Lotus as a model, that with a bespoke engine and gearbox they could have sold it as a 911 rival. Although it would be in a niche of its own really being mid engine, more a cut price R8/or Mclaren.
The whole character of the car would change with an 8500 rpm screamer putting out 500 odd bhp in the same 'lightweight' package (sure it could have tipped below 1400kg)