USA Emira Deliveries

[Bibs]

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

All nicely gift-wrapped for Christmas!

[ramjet]

I remember helping the detailers at the Holden dealership I worked at for a while.

The amount of plastic that came off the new cars that ended up in the bin. All non-recyclable. None of it made to break down easily.

And those cars didn't have nearly as much as is on these.

[Bibs]

Fort Lauderdale. It seems that non-CARB states are getting their cars now

[Bibs]

Looks like there's a CARB green light!! 

[jonwat]

After Nearly Three Years, Lotus Can Finally Sell Emiras In The US

[Bibs]

[DarrylV8]

Poignant number plate 

[KennyN]

Based on conversations with a few new Emira owners last weekend, it'll probably feel like it's taking another 3 years to get the parts to address the issues that still appear to be plaguing recently delivered cars.

You'd have thought that the build process would have been updated by now to avoid what must be costly fixes, but apparently not.  I'm aware of 4 cars with dead HVAC units that are being quoted as a 10-hour job to replace, and an unknown lead time for the parts.

I can only assume someone is being compensated on the number of units out of the door, with no metrics on after-sales repairs.  It's not a great customer experience, even if the parts were plentiful and the repair facilities had better booking availability.

[JimH]

2 hours ago, KennyN said:

You'd have thought that the build process would have been updated by now to avoid what must be costly fixes, but apparently not.  I'm aware of 4 cars with dead HVAC units that are being quoted as a 10-hour job to replace, and an unknown lead time for the parts.

Mine was built last July (Hendy Eastleigh Demonstrator), HVAC resistor pack died in October after collection journey back from Southampton to Norwich in heavy rain, replaced in December by Stratton Motors (confirmed 10 hours). I've heard of another one that was replaced around the same time failing again since so am avoiding heavy rain/road spray at least until I'm back from Ypres Lotus Day (which is a 3-day trip for me) in May..... 🙄