USA/Canada Delivery Thread
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Rhinocerosity
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Well, finally got the call that my car is being loaded up. Estimate is 7-10 days. With my luck it'll probably get sucked into a tornado on the way here.
Congrats!
I’m interested in this too. Dealer doesn’t seem to know the answer. Is there normally a time in the year Lotus moves from one model year to another?
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Halfway into the next year lol
Cachaco131
Emira Maniac
Congratulations! I agree with your perspective, but I kind of like the fact that 911 is more evolution than revolution. Revolution can also result in debacles like the G8X platform! Not sure it's a "much better car", I think the Emira will be a much better drivers car. Overall the package is a promised, a fantastic daily with great performance and all around capabilities. Love the Shark Blue paint; was lucky because the fun colors have all been discontinued in recent months.
Holy shit, my VIN is in that Canadian shipment! Wow. So it only took 2 years, 9 months, and 16 days for this car to actually become real, if only on a spreadsheet (but an official government spreadsheet, at the very least!). Also, nice of somebody to finally throw us Canadians a bone. I think we only got something like 70 Emira allocations out of the initial offering, and so these 36 cars should help to clear that backlog. Hopefully they're all FE1.0 cars, which I think would only be fair at this point.
Also, a huge thank you to our MVP @Nova for doing the lord's work in this thread. He's the hero we need, but not the hero we deserve.
It’s part of the lotus journey
911 T was also a car I considered. Just not possible to get one. Nice choice and color!
TLDR is Too Long Didn't Read. People seem anywhere from frustrated to happy to ecstatic. Some are having problems, some aren't. We have no idea about future versions, but so far it doesn't appear likely. It looks like all the V6 manual FE's both V1 and V2 have been built, and now production has moved over to automatics. Supposedly it's going to be V6 autos, i4 FE's, then base, but who knows?
Nice Porsche!
Cachaco131
Emira Maniac
Thanks! I meant what was TLDR version so I didn't have to read many pages! Seems I'll have a lot of time before I can order and get the Base! Shame some folks are having issues, is Lotus proactively addressing them?
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From what I've heard a number of cars are having issues w AC. Only blows cold oh High - not lower speeds. A Resistor/Capacitor that got exposed to water somehow? Easy fix I hear - just annoying. Also an issue with caliper wearing discs unevenly. Again supposedly due to being parked in elements for so long. Dealerships are fixing. Some earlier versions developed paint bubbles (Good God). Hoping only early models but 'we will see'. I think those are the most of the ones I've heard. Some people have had issues with cars flat out not starting for some reason. Or going into low-power limp mode. Some complaints of 'unusual transmission noises' which we are told are normal. Did I miss anything??
Nice summary! Some one off stuff like doors not opening too, but this doesn’t seem widespread.
Basically buying a Lotus is like rolling dice. Hope you don’t get snake eyes!
It's a resistor pack that have gone bad from sitting out in the open for the last few months while waiting for CARB, should not happen when the car is driven regularly. My dealer have to replace 4 out of the 20 cars they got last week. Luckily, mine seems to be working fine (keeping fingers crossed). I'm more worried about the paint bubbling as mine is a FE 1.0 before they went to an automatic painting setup.
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They are all painted exactly the same way. The bubbling issue relates to micro-fissures in the composite panel itself, not the paint. Which is why a respray is not an effective fix; the panel must be replaced entirely.
I think we're getting close to that point.
I heard they’ve delivered 3 Emiras last week.
Can you elaborate? From what I understand once you get the call from Kyle or Tom that your car has been unloaded from the truck they reach out to you from the finance arm of things to see about PPF from their installers and financing. Financing communicates about the extended 7 year fidelity warranty.
I haven't heard any details about the extended warranty such as if it covers paint.
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