KM when delivered

[ott]

I wouldn't be happy with this. Prefer to see a few miles. Not even rattle tested?

Agree, its strange,, never seen 0 before. Its one of the first cars, maybe quality control was not working yet ?

 

[eriegz]

I wouldn't be happy with this. Prefer to see a few miles. Not even rattle tested?

Related question: when does the Emira's odometer actually start counting "ownership miles"? Someone else on here said other car companies have a "factory mode" that let's them drive it around the factory without adding to the odometer; does Lotus have something similar?

 

[John777]

I just retired from an auto assembly factory that pumped out 1500 vehicles a day. A lot of these vehicles need repairs/tests and are put out in the yard for later repairs or waiting on parts.... Weekend work etc... They get moved and driven around quite a bit in factory mode(kms put on are not recorded). Its not unusual for vehicles to rack up the kms although it most often tried to be avoided. Once it goes into ship mode it keeps track of kms on odometer. There could be many reasons why one vehicle has 1km and another 50km. Personally I would be okay with around 25km. If it had a few hundred or was a demo I'd ask the dealership for compensation. Just because the vehicle shows 2km on the odometer when you get it... doesn't mean it might not have 50km already on it from the factory. lol..

Related question: when does the Emira's odometer actually start counting "ownership miles"? Someone else on here said other car companies have a "factory mode" that let's them drive it around the factory without adding to the odometer; does Lotus have something similar?

I'm sure that's standard practice for all manufacturers. Some cars could have a couple hundred kms and you wouldn't know. We used to move cars around in the yard from different spots to other spots organizing them into defect types for repairs etc.. We would use a car as a shuttle for like 1hr then swap out for another.

 

[Concept24]

If they don't take them on the test track, how can they be sure the car's performance, handling, wind noise, steering and braking are ok?

So they should exceed 4000 rpm to test performance?