Keep in mind that the model year for Lotus goes from April 1 to March 30... 2000 cars/year is based on their production year. I'd only expect 3/4 of those by a december calendar year.
The original number from lotus was 2400 in the first year, which would be ~1800 cars in the US by december 2005. That's speculation.
Regardless of the wait... I can't wait! It's going to be one hell of a fantastic day - whenever it comes!
My last 2c... Lotus isn't going to be making much profit [if any] on this first run of the Elise. They probably knew that going into this. It's much easier to raise the price of car everyone already wants than it is to create need for a car that might be priced just a bit too high... I know that another 10g for the car and I probably would have waited for it to arrive before tossing down. But, it wasn't. So I threw down as quick as I could without doubt in my mind it was a fantastic value!
I'm still going by what Arnie Johnson told me at the LA Auto Show after we chatted for well over an hour... That I'd probably get my Elise sometime the end of the summer... Good enough for me then, good enough now.
The original number from lotus was 2400 in the first year, which would be ~1800 cars in the US by december 2005. That's speculation.
Regardless of the wait... I can't wait! It's going to be one hell of a fantastic day - whenever it comes!
My last 2c... Lotus isn't going to be making much profit [if any] on this first run of the Elise. They probably knew that going into this. It's much easier to raise the price of car everyone already wants than it is to create need for a car that might be priced just a bit too high... I know that another 10g for the car and I probably would have waited for it to arrive before tossing down. But, it wasn't. So I threw down as quick as I could without doubt in my mind it was a fantastic value!
I'm still going by what Arnie Johnson told me at the LA Auto Show after we chatted for well over an hour... That I'd probably get my Elise sometime the end of the summer... Good enough for me then, good enough now.