USA/Canada Delivery Thread

[Rainier]

Has our agent been deployed?

 

[Porter]

Live webcam of the Carmen, which is the ship just behind the Evergreen EverMax. Any CSI experts that can zoom in and enhance the reflected image off of one of the container crane nest windows to see what is being unloaded?

 

[eriegz]

Live webcam of the Carmen, which is the ship just behind the Evergreen EverMax. Any CSI experts that can zoom in and enhance the reflected image off of one of the container crane nest windows to see what is being unloaded?

@DerTheDer you call this drone footage?? No, no, no, you need to get WAY closer!

 

[Maurice R]

If you placed it at Lotus Austin, yes they have offered me to the front of the line if I paid 15k extra and ahead of the purchase...needless to say, I did not and went to Dallas instead.

Great choice of dealership you chose.

 

[benjh1028]

If you placed it at Lotus Austin, yes they have offered me to the front of the line if I paid 15k extra and ahead of the purchase...needless to say, I did not and went to Dallas instead.

I’ve said it before. There will be a time when car inventories are plentiful and buyers scarce. Hope dealerships realize their short-sightedness will have consequences.

Paying to jump the queue shows zero loyalty. I would never buy a vehicle from this dealer.

 

[kitkat]

Anyone have a subscription to real-time satellite data?
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Nice try FBI.

 

[benjh1028]

Bellevue said cars were on ships?

 

[KCMO68_510]

Bellevue said cars were on ships?

I forget the phrase someone posted, but it sounded like they were on their way to ships, not that they were presently on a ship.

 

[Maurice R]

Bellevue said cars were on ships?

What ships

 

[Maurice R]

I forget the phrase someone posted, but it sounded like they were on their way to ships, not that they were presently on a ship.

That I believe was me. But was joking

 

[bif]

That I believe was me. But was joking

On the way to ships.....soon.

 

[dgrace]

I forget the phrase someone posted, but it sounded like they were on their way to ships, not that they were presently on a ship.

The exact wording my salesperson texted me was "We have received confirmation that Lotus has built the US spec Emira V6 First Editions (1.0) and are shipping them to the US now!" He didn't specify exactly what "shipping" meant.

 

[Dr.JDK]

I forget the phrase someone posted, but it sounded like they were on their way to ships, not that they were presently on a ship.

That ship's name is Wishful Thinking.

 

[DerTheDer]

Another sad day of no news lotus.

 

[NicolasB]

Mine got on a ship today, haha. Dealer texted me the name of it so I could track (stalk) it during its journey. Take notes Lotus!

 

[Hell4Leather]

If you placed it at Lotus Austin, yes they have offered me to the front of the line if I paid 15k extra and ahead of the purchase...needless to say, I did not and went to Dallas instead.

Yup. They say they didn’t do that but way too many people have the same story. Austin is a -hole anyway

 

[Hell4Leather]

Got an email from my Aston Martin dealer- order now for Spring delivery. That’s this spring mind you; not a spring. Looking at you Lostus

 

[DerTheDer]

Where is Scott when we need him?

 

[John777]

Well - if they give out allocations 6 months prior to a build date, which I believe this is a confirmed practise, even if I receive an allocation in January, earliest build month would be July and add two more months for shipping and delivery. This would be my absolute best case scenario at this point. Fall delivery in Canada isn’t exactly exciting BTW. This is also assuming they will be handing out more V6 F/E 2.0 allocations. Which I don’t think they will be in the new year. If I am expected to wait for a base V6, I wouldn’t hold my breath for a 2024 delivery of a base V6 Emira. They will offer i4’s to people for the next 6 months instead. It is just sad.

I'm worse off. I put a deposit Oct 3 2022.

 

[Eagle7]

It's an interesting dilemma. Now that they can produce 40 cars a day, if they have double the orders for FE's than they originally thought they would, do they ignore that or continue building and extend the production run? Are FE's at the new prices profitable enough to continue producing them? Do they even need to make base models for the next 2 years if they have 2 years of orders for FE's?

Maybe they need to start producing base models for the U.K. and Europe, but since the U.S. market hasn't even really started yet, it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out order-wise once customer cars start to appear here in the U.S. This is all new territory for Lotus as they've never had this dilemma before, but it's certainly an interesting one. Better than what they've had in the past though, that's for certain!