WHY I SOLD MY DREAM CAR: The Shocking Truth About My Lotus Evora Lemon! 

It is definitely a challenging vehicle genre to deal with.

Nope…… You would think but as a customer they would probably not listen. I also believe the wiring was the issue with the sensors in the engine.

​@@dnipple it sucks, but this reinforces my negative perception that dealership techs are just parts cannon operators. After the same parts fail over and over you gotta realize there is an underlying issue...

@@BookAutowerks Exactly!!!!!

Yea it was rough!

Its what was available new at the time and qualified for Lotus rebate.

It will be missed! I hope to get another Lotus again later, just needed to get out of this one while I could before warranty ended.

My 2020 GT with 12K miles has been very reliable. A cosmetic issue covered under warranty is about it. Sounds like you unfortunately got the short stick. Most owner's I've talked to and met are happy with the reliability. Mark Lotus Ltd.

@@MS-fc2sr very much so!

Right 😬

Haha 😂hopefully he buys the extended warranty!!!

I agree. Yet they kept adding zip ties to more and more sensors in the engine bay.

Right!!! It was rough. I did all my research before buying and knew there would be a few things FEW!

@@dnipple So Sorry. My Lotus cars I have had have been the joy of my life, and I wish you could have experienced the same.

Lol I expected to be able to at least get a track day in but that was way too much to ask of it!!! Had to cancel the 2 track days I had scheduled and just gave up after that.

@@dnipple Trackdays stuck in 3rd sounds like a winning recipe 😂

@@nickgost 😂

I just got a Lemon sadly.

@@dnipple Yeah sounds like it. Sorry to hear man. In most cases with this Toyota power plant these really are the most reliable sports car you can get. Being hand built though they do have little issues here in there you can usually fix yourself. You of course shouldn't have to, But way easier than taking to the dealer. Lots of Lotus guys seem to have basic mechanic skills as well to own them lol. I used to have an Exige and it was the same story.

Yo let me get one of those boards

No sadly! I will eventually get another Lotus.

Yea 🥲that motorsport black is gorgeous when the sun would hit it! The gold flakes would shine right through!

I traded in the 2020 BMW supra. They counted it as a sports car.

The Lotus dealer I worked with was in continuous contact with the field engineers trying to resolve and doing as they said. Lotus’ fix all and solve all issues was not able to resolve and it continued to have issues.

@@dnipple I hear what your saying. I live in Australia and have had 3 new Lotus cars over 15 years. All have been reliable and gave hardly any problems. However, the few little problems I had I obviously went to the Lotus dealer to fix as the cars were under factory warranty. Or so I thought. I quickly learnt that the Lotus dealer was sending the cars out to a private non dealer engineering workshop that specialised in Lotus's. In fact they were a race team and actually raced these things. They were mostly English and all race engineers! Mate you wouldn't believe the difference! Simple stuff like rattling seat rails that I had taken in multiple times to be fixed and started off ok and then went back to rattling for example was fixed immediately. My point is that these dealerships don't receive the real world hands-on training and as these cars are limited in number, don't receive adequate training. Coupled with the usual HR problems of staff moving on, not giving a dam etc it can actually make the problem worst. As you said correctly stated these are mostly hand built specialist cars (the Evora/Emira less so) and as such they need specialist technician/Engineers working on them. Everyone else will just make the problem worst and I believe this might have been the case here.

😅 Should have taken that as a clue when purchasing!