Not really true. Those contracts are paid out and if they still have money on them, they will work. The Contract Oversight Officer would verify they are on the exempt contract list and they can work. Not all contracts funding ends on OCT1, some are CY 2 CY.
Happy about your good fortune .Received a call yesterday from Eurocar (Lotus of Orange County, CA) with an offer of a FE 2.0 V6 build slot. I had just missed the cutoff for their second allocation and was 4th on the standing list for the first base allocation V6 at some point in the future (I previously declined a I4 slot). I asked the rep if previous buyers had dropped out and he said no but as soon as they filled their last allocation they let their Lotus rep know they could fill more 2.0 orders if they had the additional slots. Lotus give them another handful of V6 2.0 build slots. I asked but he said he didn't know if the additional cars were because some dealers had slots they couldn't fill and Lotus was able to shift them around or if Lotus had decided to build more 2.0 cars than the additional 600 cars announced. I would guess it would be in Lotus' best interest to build more fully loaded cars if the demand was there but that is conjecture on my part. He said my build slot was projected for Feb production with a May/June delivery 2024. I asked if the 1.0 cars would be built at the same time and he said they should be being built now with delivery expected in Dec/Jan.
I did not discuss ADM when I placed my deposit (July 15, 2022) and so I let him know I had no interest in paying ADM. He said the dealership had not made a decision about market adjustments at this time but he thought once the initial deliveries were behind them and availability had caught up with demand that MSRP would be more likely. Either way he said my deposit was fully refundable even once the car arrived at the dealer as they would have no problem selling the car. He sent an email confirming my ability to cancel at anytime for full refund ($3k). Final spec needed be to submitted this morning which I have done. He said he would send a confirm from Lotus shortly with the build spec. There was no additional deposit required to submit the order.
Take all of the above with a healthy dose of salt...excited to have a place in the cue. Next summer works for me...
Can you do us UK i4 depositors a favour and check that they've started on those too please? The first UK i4 FE cars should have been September builds but it's October tomorrow and the silence is deafening.......
I agree with your points, however I’d add, I have a feeling that we won’t see as much turnover in the US. I think flippers will have dropped out after seeing what happened in the UK, but with the much more limited release in the US, I expect at least the FE V6 manuals to remain firmer pricing wise for a while.
I would hope you are correct. That would be good for us people that have been waiting almost 3 years and are ready to get off this ship.
Well 45 days for Lotus to get their shit together at least. After that who knows.
Lotus execs: “F**k, now we can’t tell US depositors that the upcoming delay is due to the government shutdown impacting certification.”
I doubt it, but let us know! Problem is, they don’t tell you what they know.
I believe the UK used market churn for the Emira is far more about the economic difficulties the UK has been going through, rather that anything specifically about the car. I think the people freaking out about Emiras being listed on Auto Trader are indulging their catastrophic thinking rather than making a rational assessment of the contributing factors.
I think there could be a lot of explanations for the availability of Emiras in the UK. Whenever you go to any dealership, at least in the US, you will have very limited top of the line cars sitting on the lot. Whether it be a CTS V Blackwing, Z06, Giulia QV, Shelby GT350R. {EDIT: Meaning car makers understand how fast these sell and they don't put out several examples at once.} The sales penetration for a custom spec'd new mid engine sports car has to be very low. All these cars being built during the pandemic when things were changing daily for people. Finances, jobs, health, etc.
I mean it is telling that we now assume that every season just brings new opportunities for Lotus management to lie to us by omission.
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