USA/Canada Delivery Thread

[24EmiraUS]

I am fairly confident things are about to break. It's one thing to shoot a few hundred cars across the Atlantic in hopes of CARB approval, it's a whole other ballgame to keep producing and shipping cars. Surely Lotus has gotten updated since the first big shipment, if things were not going as planned, they would halt production/shipping. My car hit Baltimore a little over a week ago. So based on this evidence and rationale this thread can now be closed.

We need to add a clown emoji to this thread

 

[SPoivre]

If one owns $LOT shares can they say Lotus employees work for them as shareholders above all else?

Nah…I think canon fodder would be a better description for shareholders than owners.

 

[DPB]

Man, I step away from this forum for a day and you all have mentally “gone to plaid”! I think the waiting delirium has fully set in! Thank goodness for this forum.

 

[4MIR3]

Hmmm...

 

[Rev2Red]

Was thinking of buying an Evora GT today with a guaranteed buyback when/if my Emira ever comes in.
Ran it by my wife. She said I need to show restraint and practice my patience.

Guaranteed buyback? I’d take that deal. That dealer isn’t in Florida is it?

 

[R35_J]

Well for anyone in Florida I can certainly recommend not using Olympic Motorsports in Boca Raton. They took a joyride in a customer's car and totalled it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR/s/9CWiJdK6yu

Luiggi is an absolute moron. Blew up two of my subies almost 15 years ago. There are tons of horror stories about him in NASIOC from back of the day.

 

[DCRAM]

Will they refund your deposit?

They are refunding it. They didn't put up a fight or ask any questions. Just accepted my decision and issued the refund.

 

[VL3X]

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Hmmm...

"CARB compliant software" huh? This should be interesting...

 

[KCMO68_510]

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Hmmm...

Without any actual verification, I'm not believing an anonymous source.

 

[EZcheezy]

flashing cars to be CARB compliant sounds kinda worrisome, assuming its real, which it probably isnt

 

[VL3X]

flashing cars to be CARB compliant sounds kinda worrisome, assuming its real, which is probably isnt

Yeah, let's not get too concerned just yet.

 

[Arkham]

flashing cars to be CARB compliant sounds kinda worrisome, assuming its real, which it probably isnt

Why is this concerning? This has been the outcome for around 5 months now. We've known that CARB hasn't passed multiple times. We've come to the conclusion no physical mods are needed and that software should handle the compliance (which since it still hasn't passed I don't even know at this point if physical mods would be needed as well). So why are people saying on here and on Facebook their concerned that about it being flashed... that's been a known. We just don't know if it's minor tunes that will make it complaint or if it's literally going to reduce power.

 

[Time2Fly]

Well, it's concerning because I wanted a relatively light 400hp GT. If they nerf it that's kind of a big problem.

 

[EZcheezy]

Why is this concerning? This has been the outcome for around 5 months now. We've known that CARB hasn't passed multiple times. We've come to the conclusion no physical mods are needed and that software should handle the compliance (which since it still hasn't passed I don't even know at this point if physical mods would be needed as well). So why are people saying on here and on Facebook their concerned that about it being flashed... that's been a known. We just don't know if it's minor tunes that will make it complaint or if it's literally going to reduce power.

you realize software can mean less horse power and torque right.

i think its pretty reasonable to assume that a flash with the intent of making the Cali hippies happy can only mean something bad, like less performance

 

[Arkham]

Well, it's concerning because I wanted a relatively light 400hp GT. If they nerf it that's kind of a big problem.

Yeah, but why the concern now? Everyone is acting like this is new news as of today, but it's been a known for 5 months. It didn't pass CARB, multiple times, I don't think there's magic that makes it pass without flashing it. Even if this guy is lying about it happening now, the outcome is that it will still happen before delivery.

 

[Arkham]

you realize software can mean less horse power and torque right.

i think its pretty reasonable to assume that a flash with the intent of making the Cali hippies happy can only mean something bad, like less performance

Same reply to the other... this has been known for 5 months, why complain about it now?

 

[EZcheezy]

Same reply to the other... this has been known for 5 months, why complain about it now?

oh we knew there was going to be a flash to decrease the horse power? oh well never mind then.

obviously im kidding, show source

 

[Arkham]

oh we knew there was going to be a flash to decrease the horse power? oh well never mind then.

obviously im kidding, show source

No one knows if a flash will decrease power. We all joked about that being a possibility like 200 pages back now, but not an anonymous person on Facebook or anyone here knows. I would suspect they would ship all the cars back before they ever changed the HP rating of cars we all locked in and are sitting at dealers, but that's just my guess. The most likely outcome everyone predicted was that minor adjustments need to be made to make it compliant that don't include decreasing power.

 

[EZcheezy]

No one knows if a flash will decrease power. We all joked about that being a possibility like 200 pages back now, but not an anonymous person on Facebook or anyone here knows. I would suspect they would ship all the cars back before they ever changed the HP rating of cars we all locked in and are sitting at dealers, but that's just my guess. The most likely outcome everyone predicted was that minor adjustments need to be made to make it compliant that don't include decreasing power.

source: 200 pages back of us joking around

well thats the reason its worrisome, we dont know. Lotus might be desperate at this point who the hell knows what they will do. nerfing it sure SEEMS unlikely tho

 

[Gprodigy]

500 pages and it will automatically approve CARB. I m 100% sure of it!…. Well maybe 12.3 % sure …

page 456... "we're almost there boysss!"

and women on here who love lotus respectfully