So who has an Emira order in Scotland?

[Al]

So who has 'gone and done it' and ordered an Emira in LEGS?  I know of a couple and I know that Laura has been VERY busy this last week or so....... (Even website deposits come back to local dealers)

Having been tempted to go elsewhere recently but thankfully resisted I'll admit I have gone and done it today when I said I wouldn't. 😬 I was reading so much on line about how many deposits have been taken in the UK alone this week, on top of the earlier dealer deposits and with the ROTW just starting to see it now I thought I'd better move on this if I want one even in 2023.  I don't want a launch edition for a number of reasons (not least of all being a bit of a meh colour choice IMHO)  and I do want to see in the flesh and read some actual reviews before deciding final spec.  I remember what happened with the Evora for early adopters

This car is the first car to get my juices flowing since I first saw the Evora unexpectedly at the British Motor show in 2008 on my way to the Hungarian GP and it got my juices going then so I ordered one of the Launch Edition cars (& cancelled and AMG order ironically) as soon as I returned and my affair with Lotus has continued since......

Laura was telling me that they hope to have the Goodwood cars touring the UK Dealers in a couple of months so watch this space when we start getting some more info through.

Cheers, Al. 

[Glasgow]

Hi Allan,

Paid a deposit to Laura last week (1K) and had valuation for my Evora 400 but decided not to sell for now. I don't think it is a good idea to be "Lotusless" for another 18 months. 

As you said, it's difficult to decide on specifications now and we need more colour choices.

 

Roll on September.

 

A

[douglasgdmw]

Coming back to the Lotus fold after replacing the Evora with a Porsche Spyder

We placed our deposit with Laura on 22nd July. Obviously this has been refunded and order placed with Lotus direct.

Due to us being down relatively late with the deposit I very much suspect that we will be a 2023 order which suits us fine. Ensure any niggles (albeit I suspect less than the Evora LE's) will be ironed out by the time that we get ours.

Only concern is whether the V6 will still be available in 2023 as I was looking forward to having it with a manual box.

 

[Al]

Hi George, great to see you coming back to the fold. I am with you on not interested in being a Lotus test driver again so will sit and wait like you. ** I only paid up so I wasn’t too far back when the deposits started going nuts. I also want to experience the AMG before making a decision or at least seeing what EVO and Co think is the sweet spot of all 3 of the options. 
 

** for anybody thinking I’m having a dig at Lotus there it isn’t only them on their inevitable smaller development budget. We had one of the first Evoque’s on the road, the turbo petrol one and it was 8 years of total grief from the day bought to the day sold (with problems) and never happier to see the back of it. It cost JLR a lot under warranty and continued to cause grief (As Bingoking can attest to!)