UK configurator has updated

Yachtie · 2025-03-04T05:23:41-0600

Over £112 with first year road tax from April!!

Nick Sticks · 2025-03-04T05:25:36-0600

Hmm, no matter what I do it still keeps trying to configure a first edition that results in an error.
Edit: got in using a different browser!

freefall_junkie · 2025-03-04T05:34:20-0600

SuperchargedLotus said:
The First edition spec I got now prices at over £107k

£107k!

Wow! Maybe that will start to help shore up V6 used values which Lotus have done such an excellent job of ruining with oversupply in the last couple of years.

SuperchargedLotus · 2025-03-04T06:02:36-0600

Yachtie said:
Over £112 with first year road tax from April!!

Madness

Beachbum · 2025-03-04T06:37:40-0600

At £117K on the road, I dont see them selling many. Thats a ludicrous price for a Lotus. No one in their right mind will pay that amount for a car, that then has the type of support, spares availability and customer service that Lotus currently provides.

PhilCP · 2025-03-04T07:40:50-0600

Looks like you can’t have tour suspension if you want the drivers pack.

SuperchargedLotus · 2025-03-04T08:00:09-0600

PhilCP said:
Looks like you can’t have tour suspension if you want the drivers pack.

Yes, bit of a strange option that should be split up

geoffbland · 2025-03-04T09:26:57-0600

Lotus badges - Yellow and Black or Black and Silver. No option for Yellow and Green.

Six Speed Stephen · 2025-03-04T09:27:07-0600

Beachbum said:
At £117K on the road, I dont see them selling many. Thats a ludicrous price for a Lotus. No one in their right mind will pay that amount for a car, that then has the type of support, spares availability and customer service that Lotus currently provides.

People rarely fully spec cars.

RoryBellows · 2025-03-04T09:33:06-0600

Hmm. This is similar to the base configurator in the US but slightly different.

In the US the open gear box is the only choice for manuals and the closed is the only choice for autos. Heated seats are standard. Convenience package is standard. The rest seems in line.

For pricing comparison I ordered a nimbus over red with essentially the same equipment as the first edition albeit with the new "extended lower black pack" and the US MSRP is $109,550 This doesn't include destination charges of $2350 so all in before taxes I'm at $111,900. Also as a point in the US the Scorpion tracker is a $690 option.

The drivers pack is standard equipment and touring is still available as a no cost option. I have it on my build sheet. Funny enough for awhile our configurator didn't allow it but they corrected it at some point. They still dont show pricing on the configurator but the price list is readily available. I uploaded it to the forum last year.

EDIT: I made my twin on the UK site and it came to £106,455.00 which is roughly $135,349 right now. That includes taxes though. If you add my estimated taxes for me I'm at around $121,125. Both those numbers exclude registration costs I think.

EDIT 2: It also looks like UK doesn't have pricing changes for paint. In the US only vivid is included and everything else is an add. My nimbus is a 1250 upcharge. I think they are just charging whatever they think they can get out of the market they are selling to.

Nick Sticks · 2025-03-04T10:01:47-0600

PhilCP said:
Looks like you can’t have tour suspension if you want the drivers pack.

Bit of a pain if that means you can't have the nice exhaust sound in Sports Mode when you have Touring suspension.

Beachbum · 2025-03-04T10:12:48-0600

Six Speed Stephen said:
People rarely fully spec cars.

I think the point was to get the Base car back to what was the FE spec. Granted not everyone wants all of it, but just a way to show the difference in price for what would have been an almost identical car at todays prices

Lotustoronto · 2025-03-04T10:14:40-0600

Just did my spec on UK config and it comes out to $196,000 CAD - Our dollar certainly has taken a big hit against the pound. I think there will be a further price bump on the US and CAD configurators once they are updated.

675430VME · 2025-03-04T10:33:27-0600

geoffbland said:
Lotus badges - Yellow and Black or Black and Silver. No option for Yellow and Green.

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From the last time I visited the factory, they told me Geely hates green and had to go

KJD · 2025-03-04T10:58:14-0600

This seems to me to be a mistake.
The V6 First Edition was £84k list (iirc) before this update.
To go to £92k for a base edition without the FE options is madness.
£72k would make more sense.
But, it is Lotus so

All those low-mileage orphaned cars will suddenly be very attractive if that’s the correct new price.

And it makes the £76k I paid for mine two years ago look an absolute bargain!

Vampyre · 2025-03-04T11:39:44-0600

My USA FE 1.0 was £82K

idleuser · 2025-03-04T13:48:37-0600

Prices of the Lotus Emira V6 start at £92,500. Whoa!!

Foxy87 · 2025-03-04T14:06:43-0600

I already postet in the future thread, would have been better to post here as our configurator got updated as well:

Base V6 tops out at CHF 119k. This is a price increase of CHF 7k compared to the same FE spec. I can deal with that.

But what really fucks me up is that almost all the options are standard on the Turbo SE or very cheap to upgrade while on the V6 everything is optional and costs a big junk of money. For example, you pay like 2k for the alcantara option. The exact same option is 300.- for the Turbo SE, I mean WTF!?
like this, V6 comes in 10k more than Turbo SE.

hentzG · 2025-03-04T14:13:06-0600

I suppose Lotus raises MSRP to give discounts afterwards. Just another sales model. The i4 first editions have been discounted for 15-20% since months (could have been because of the launch today as well). V6 base is +25k in Germany with first edition options...this is ridiculous.