U.S. Update: Allocation & Order Date

[Eagle7]

Best I can do on short notice lol

 

[~el~jefe~]

If it breaks $96k, most will bail out. If it goes past early half of 2023, most will bail out. Reason? this sucks.

 

[EspritGuy]

Best I can do on short notice lol

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Anyone remember Captain Kirk and The Trouble with Tribles?

 

[Eagle7]

Anyone remember Captain Kirk and The Trouble with Tribles?

Yep, one of the funnier episodes.

 

[CarGuy07]

When

If it breaks $96k, most will bail out. If it goes past early half of 2023, most will bail out. Reason? this sucks.

If you spec an FE V6 with black pack, automatic transmission, and the tracker thing, it will go past $96K.

 

[darkling]

yeah but the fe is fully loaded think only option for cost on fe is the at .

 

[CarGuy07]

yeah but the fe is fully loaded think only option for cost on fe is the at .

Automatic transmission, black pack, and vehicle tracker are cost options. Homelink is available as extra option but looks like no cost for it. Adding all of those items up, for the US, MSRP is a tad over $98,000 without delivery & handling fees. So it looks like it will likely be just shy of $100,000 before taxes, title, and license (TTL).

 

[DF_Toronto]

Automatic transmission, black pack, and vehicle tracker are cost options. Homelink is available as extra option but looks like no cost for it. Adding all of those items up, for the US, MSRP is a tad over $98,000 without delivery & handling fees. So it looks like it will likely be just shy of $100,000 before taxes, title, and license (TTL).

In Canada I think we pay delivery twice as I heard they go to Lotus USA and then to the local dealer in Canada, add 13% sales tax, finally add a new 20% luxry tax about to kick in sometime this year (that‘s a huge amount and reason to get delivery ASAP for some of us) .

 

[darkling]

Yeah california probably gonna get us with the 4k luxury tax to . i just wish lotus would drop the options and pricing waiting til march is killing me . I really want the lotus but putting all my eggs in one basket is probably is gonna have to stop if lotus hasn.t posted it by march 15th . and put out another basket for a bigger egg

 

[p.rob]

In Canada I think we pay delivery twice as I heard they go to Lotus USA and then to the local dealer in Canada, add 13% sales tax, finally add a new 20% luxry tax about to kick in sometime this year (that‘s a huge amount and reason to get delivery ASAP for some of us) .

I'm crossing my fingers really hard that this tax won't kick in untill I take delivery of the car, but I'm not getting my hopes up

 

[christophermalex]

Blockbuster email I just received from Galpin Lotus in LA. I won't bury the lead here. At the end he states that Lotus has confirmed they will be able to honor ALL 200+ of their orders by Q2 2023 which has me thinking I may have a shot at a V6 FE if I want to move off of having thought about the i4 FE this whole time...... I imagine honoring the orders means having started production so likely if I stick with the i4 FE I'm looking at delivery Q4 of 2023 at the earliest. Butterflies finally again with some good news (since I don't mind the wait)
_______________________________________________________________________
Hello!

The entire Galpin Lotus team would like to thank you for your patience and understanding through the Emira ordering process.

Galpin Lotus is excited to start the first steps towards delivering your new Lotus Emira!

Emira First Edition's are going to be built in a limited quantity. First Edition slots will be offered in the order the deposit was received. The V6 First Edition will be the first to arrive and start delivery in October of 2022 the I4 First Edition will start delivery in Q4 of 2023.

Your Galpin Lotus Specialist will start to reach out to confirm your power train option and your allocation slot starting today Monday February 7. Orders for V6 First Edition will be submitted to Lotus starting March first. We will have until the 20th of each month to submit orders. Once submitted no other changes can be made.

The orders are time sensitive and any build not received by the due date will be forfeited and passed onto the next person in line.

Best news of it all...because we were one of the top Lotus dealers in the world, Lotus has promised to deliver all of our 200+ orders before the end of Q2 of 2023!

We are excited for the future and thank you for being the best part of it!

As more information becomes available to us, we will share it with you. In addition, we will be following up with you to finalize your order with Galpin Lotus.

 

[Pbaj46]

Blockbuster email I just received from Galpin Lotus in LA. I won't bury the lead here. At the end he states that Lotus has confirmed they will be able to honor ALL 200+ of their orders by Q2 2023 which has me thinking I may have a shot at a V6 FE if I want to move off of having thought about the i4 FE this whole time...... I imagine honoring the orders means having started production so likely if I stick with the i4 FE I'm looking at delivery Q4 of 2023 at the earliest. Butterflies finally again with some good news (since I don't mind the wait)
_______________________________________________________________________
Hello!

The entire Galpin Lotus team would like to thank you for your patience and understanding through the Emira ordering process.

Galpin Lotus is excited to start the first steps towards delivering your new Lotus Emira!

Emira First Edition's are going to be built in a limited quantity. First Edition slots will be offered in the order the deposit was received. The V6 First Edition will be the first to arrive and start delivery in October of 2022 the I4 First Edition will start delivery in Q4 of 2023.

Your Galpin Lotus Specialist will start to reach out to confirm your power train option and your allocation slot starting today Monday February 7. Orders for V6 First Edition will be submitted to Lotus starting March first. We will have until the 20th of each month to submit orders. Once submitted no other changes can be made.

The orders are time sensitive and any build not received by the due date will be forfeited and passed onto the next person in line.

Best news of it all...because we were one of the top Lotus dealers in the world, Lotus has promised to deliver all of our 200+ orders before the end of Q2 of 2023!

We are excited for the future and thank you for being the best part of it!

As more information becomes available to us, we will share it with you. In addition, we will be following up with you to finalize your order with Galpin Lotus.

Great news! Although I’m a little surprised with the Q4 2023 delivery date for I4 FE. Someone else had posted a similar timeline which was disregarded as a typo

 

[jmn444]

I'm not sure I'd take that to mean that all those orders will be for FE cars though.

 

[darkling]

not from what my dealer said the fe should be the end of 2022 with v6 mt next orders going in in winter for q2

 

[christophermalex]

Great news! Although I’m a little surprised with the Q4 2023 delivery date for I4 FE. Someone else had posted a similar timeline which was disregarded as a typo

That other post was mine so I don't believe now that it's a typo. I get i4 FE for Christmas in LA in 2023? Fine by me!

 

[TXEMIRA]

Blockbuster email I just received from Galpin Lotus in LA. I won't bury the lead here. At the end he states that Lotus has confirmed they will be able to honor ALL 200+ of their orders by Q2 2023 which has me thinking I may have a shot at a V6 FE if I want to move off of having thought about the i4 FE this whole time...... I imagine honoring the orders means having started production so likely if I stick with the i4 FE I'm looking at delivery Q4 of 2023 at the earliest. Butterflies finally again with some good news (since I don't mind the wait)
_______________________________________________________________________
Hello!

The entire Galpin Lotus team would like to thank you for your patience and understanding through the Emira ordering process.

Galpin Lotus is excited to start the first steps towards delivering your new Lotus Emira!

Emira First Edition's are going to be built in a limited quantity. First Edition slots will be offered in the order the deposit was received. The V6 First Edition will be the first to arrive and start delivery in October of 2022 the I4 First Edition will start delivery in Q4 of 2023.

Your Galpin Lotus Specialist will start to reach out to confirm your power train option and your allocation slot starting today Monday February 7. Orders for V6 First Edition will be submitted to Lotus starting March first. We will have until the 20th of each month to submit orders. Once submitted no other changes can be made.

The orders are time sensitive and any build not received by the due date will be forfeited and passed onto the next person in line.

Best news of it all...because we were one of the top Lotus dealers in the world, Lotus has promised to deliver all of our 200+ orders before the end of Q2 of 2023!

We are excited for the future and thank you for being the best part of it!

As more information becomes available to us, we will share it with you. In addition, we will be following up with you to finalize your order with Galpin Lotus.

Great example of good communication. Hopefully other dealers take notice.

Also a good sign that maybe all V6 FE deposits will get to V6 FE cars…

Still “limited” but maybe just a limited run to all of those who deposit by X date.

Really cool to start seeing emails!

#ForTheLowestExpectations

 

[nosirrahx]

I've had my deposit in for ages, finalized my order Feb 1st.

I'm getting the 1st to come to https://www.astonmartinboston.com/. Build date was communicated as September.

 

[Pbaj46]

That other post was mine so I don't believe now that it's a typo. I get i4 FE for Christmas in LA in 2023? Fine by me!

Hmm still a bit surprising given the base edition is out spring 2023. Perhaps that timeline might shift. Don’t see how base edition is out before FE.

 

[LotusB]

Great example of good communication. Hopefully other dealers take notice.

Also a good sign that maybe all V6 FE deposits will get to V6 FE cars…

Still “limited” but maybe just a limited run to all of those who deposit by X date.

Really cool to start seeing emails!

#ForTheLowestExpectations

Don't start the misinformation train. They said they'll get through all the reservations by Q2 2023, not the kinds of cars they'll be delivered. There's nothing stated about all of them being FE's and to be honest these dealers probably aren't aware of some of the drama on this forum otherwise they'd craft the message a little more carefully.

 

[TomE]

I'm pleased they've started communicating. But there are ambiguities, gaps and inconsistencies in the information in the email. I'm not going to unpick it all, I think others have already highlighted the key points. The first obvious one is why are they not going to be delivering anything between Q2 and Q4 2023?