Delayed delivery

[Abgreenbank]

Just had an email from lotus delaying handover  from June to July, the spec is also fixed in the system.

a little disapointed

 

ab

[Evotion]

Yep..

 

Worse part is I have booked a trip abroad first week of July...  can't risk that now and will have to move it. Luckily BA allow this.

It would be better if there was a firm date as I have so many plans for the car BUT we are unlikely to know this for a couple of months yet.

Jeezuz. Frustrating.

[697OK]

I have same email, have NC500 on 2nd July then LITP following weekend

[James DG]

Ditto.

[MJON]

Reading Ade’s notification from Lotus, found the term “Complete the checkout process” not the best choice of words, sounds like your buying something from Amazon 😳

[TomE]

Same email.  Very frustrated about the delay without an explanation and continuing poor comms (photos of colours anyone?).

For me that’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, GRRC Members Breakfast Club and Lotus in the Peak impacted and three missed opportunities for Lotus to have an Emira on show.  I guess I shouldn’t have relied on assurances I had from senior people. 

[James DG]

Not exactly a 3.5l supercharged V6-lovers paradise but was quite looking forward to driving mine to Glastonbury! Oh well, Exige it is.

[Beady]

I was july so guessing that is now Aug.

1st Aug is ok but by mid Aug then may as well wait until Sept for reg plate change.....but then if it slips into sept then i see no point in having for Winter so may just wait for 1st march 23...which then may mean dropping an FE and going for a base.

Rubbish!

 

 

[mdavies]

2 hours ago, MJON said:

Reading Ade’s notification from Lotus, found the term “Complete the checkout process” not the best choice of words, sounds like your buying something from Amazon 😳

MJON, why the surprised?!

I've quoted your comment in support of my very recent post in the Comments and Expectations thread.

[Rambo]

I don't know why anyone is surprised. I fully expected it. The only surprise for me is a 1 month delay. I expected 3 😯

[Mctaff]

Ouch.

I haven’t had the email.

perhaps they’ve decided to prioritise dark verdant customers! 😃

[KennyN]

I've had the same email today.  Still, it's going to be everything I'd expect and more, apparently, so here's hoping it's worth the wait!

[MPx]

5 hours ago, TomE said:

  Very frustrated about the delay without an explanation and continuing poor comms.... 

Odd that they've chosen not to say anything.  Was talking to a dealer at the w/e who said their cars were delayed too....but he said not for the reasons we might expect like component shortages but some kind of kick back from the type approval process which means they've needed to make a minor change or two at the last minute to get the paperwork signed off.  

[TomE]

That was my hunch - some sort of delay to type approval.  If they'd said that in the email they'd have had some sympathy: "outside our control" and "doing all we can to address it" etc.

This seems to be the new Lotus way of communicating - say as little as possible as late as possible.  So the new moniker is Let's Omit Telling Us Stuff

[exeterjeep]

Would some sort of delay to type approval have any noticeable impacts on the spec/performance/tech ? If dealers are getting demo's when we expect, they have not got long to sort out any issues.

[tailslides]

Glad I didn't sell anything in preparation for this, Late Out Turned Unsurprisingly Shambolic

[Mctaff]

Lord, O Tell Us Something!

[EmiraSi]

I got the same email yesterday. Lack Of Tangibles, Utter Shambles!

[Whitey]

My deposit for V6 FE was 10th July and I had confirmation of August delivery. So far, I have not had any email to say that this is going to be delayed, so fingers crossed it stay as August.

[jerzybondov]

Considering the waits for new cars at the moment generally and supply chain issues across the industry, only being a month late is remarkable IMO!

[DaveC72]

Totally agree.  Working for a UK based manufacturer, I can only empathise with what they must be going through.

[Mctaff]

I’m fairly happy with a month delay, seems par for the course at the mo.

Fingers crossed no more hiccups!

if it’s a type approval thing sadly production cat reviews will also be delayed I assume

[EmiraSi]

It's not the month delay that bothers me, it's just another vague email from Lotus that seems to move the goalposts slightly that's the issue; "In the coming weeks", "following that, a couple of weeks before handover", why not just say 4 weeks before delivery we'll give you xyz, and 2 weeks before delivery we'll call you and ask for a wodge of cash!?!?!?

[Mctaff]

I fear they haven’t thought that far ahead!

[Woodman]

On 13/04/2022 at 11:20, Evotion said:

Yep..

 

Worse part is I have booked a trip abroad first week of July...  can't risk that now and will have to move it. Luckily BA allow this.

It would be better if there was a firm date as I have so many plans for the car BUT we are unlikely to know this for a couple of months yet.

Jeezuz. Frustrating.

It’s not exactly an honest email is it. We know the world is in a bit of a mess but to try and say its still June but ‘delivery ‘ in July is just obviscating the reality that its slipped another month. I wouldn't change any plans based on a lotus delivery schedule, they have a mind of there own. I was told yesterday that my initial deposit date hadn’t been logged properly so I had slipped another month…… My Elise was due in a November and it turned up 4 months early - the dealer was as surprised as I was.