Congratulations.
However, I am disappointed in the lack of communication.
I was told that Lotus UK would tell Lotus USA when the cars were being shipped and then Lotus USA would tell your dealer so that you would know that you car is on the way.
It seems like they are just telling people when their car arrives in the port. This stInks for people who have to arrainge for financing or arrange to make a special trip to the dealership which may be out of state. I was at Maplecrest 2 weeks ago and they didnt know anything, and I am number 7 at Palm Beach and I know that several people in front of me have ordered the LSS and I also ordered Red, touring, and no LSS. Does this mean my car is in the port somewhere and I'll get a call when they get around to it. My dealer said on Friday that they still ahvent heard anything.
WHY ISNT LOTUS GIVING US MORE INFORMATION!!!!
Are they having internal problems with allocations and are afraid that if they announce that cars are being built for one dealership instead of another that we will go nuts, or that the dealers will go nuts because we may be able to determine their secret allocation formula. Do they not know who they want to give cars to and are they still trying to figure it out, or did they change allocations midstream and now have to figure out if the green car that we built with touring that 5 people have ordered should go to dealer A or dealer B. I have heard that all cars are built to order. If this is true then why arent we being told that our car is being produced. Lets play the blame game- Lotus UK can blame dealers for not giving info and dealers can blame Lotus USA for not giving them info, and Lotus USA can blame either the dealers or Lotus UK and the wheel goes round and round and we are stuck in the middle.
This whole idea of waiting until all dealers have a demo sucks too. Just give us our cars. Who cares if one dealer has them and another doesnt. I dont care about Lotus' internal procedures for deleivering cars or if one dealer gets 5 cars or another gets 100. But then the dealers with smaller allocaitions are probably pressuring Lotus no to divuldghe anthing since they are afraid people will go to another dealer instead, and ones with long lines are afraid people will go to other dealers with shorter lines.
Keeping people in the dark so they will all be confused until Lotus figures out what they are doing will only piss people off. If I was reading this forum for the first time and saw the amount of frustration and lack of organization, and communication from the company I would probably pass and say its not worth it.
They need to fix this soon. Us loyal fanatics are willing to put up with this, but I'm sure a lot of other people arent. This wioll only hurt Lotus in the long run. Would you go to a dealer and order a car knowing that it would take over a year, and you have no idea of when it will be built and where your place in line was? Would you be willing to order an Exige if it became avaialble knowing that you would have to go through this process again?
