Overseas Motors, Dallas

They dont know anything

Hi Guys,

I am #9 and placed my order back in Jan.

I was told by Kass that Christine the GM is the only one that gets any information from Lotus. She was on vacation until last Tuesday. I called her about 5 times on Tuesday and Wednesday. She did not have the decency to return my call.

I sent Kass the letter from Lotus and proof that other people were getting Vin#'s and dates. He said he would put it in Christines inbox.

I still have not heard anything from them.

To be fair they seem to be sticking to the list, keeping prices at MSRP and have been polite everytime I talked to them. They just dont seem to know anything which is strange because other dealers do.

I did try to change my color choice way back in April when I found out Laser Blue was available - I was told No - but I am not confident they checked with Lotus as I know that other guys changed their color choice!

Christine seems to be the bottle neck!

I am in the Dallas area. I heard the same information as you guys, not much. My salesperson is Kass (sp?) and he has been very pleasant and has made the effort to be more knowledgeable about the Elise than the other people I have spoken to. I think Christine is the only one I haven't talked with. I believe them to be trustworthy, but the lack of information when others have it doesn't help during the wait.

I am in the first batch. I thought 2 guys droppped off (moved later on?) the list, that were above me, for the lack of an limited slip differential option. Maybe they are still on. Since I have ordered the Sport Package, I am expecting some delay. I have no clue as to their allocation, so no telling when I will get my car.

It is unclear to me why they don't seem to have any information. Perhaps they do and have decided not to share for some reason. Or maybe even more troubling is that they don't have any information, that wouldn't bode well either. The lack of information and communication only leads us to speculate.

I just hope I hear something soon.

As far as I know they are expecting the demo car on the 17th.

My sales rep Sam Hunter has been always very polite, but he didn't have any information relevant to delivery dates. He thought it was funny that their own website didn't mention anything about the Elise.

So even without trying (advertising etc...). Sales over word of mouth has done wonders for Lotus, enforced by car magazine articles later on.

Myself, I can't wait until the demo gets here, since IMO most people on the waiting list don't realize how tiny this car is. I'm way down the list, but I do expect a lot of people dropping when the cars gets here.

I don't know what allocation they have, but Sam told me a while back that they were expecting to get only 4 cars/month on the 1st 2 months, then 6 cars/month for the next two then 8-10. But I think that was speculation.

It's the 1st year with Lotus for them, Sam refered to it as "an experiment". They used to sell Maseratis a while back, until they decided to stick with Jaquar only. So if allocation is based on previous sales of Esprits, I wonder how that is going to affect us/them.

Anyway, I'm patient and if by the time I have to order I see a used one (since some people will buy it before realizing it's not for them) I probably will be able to save some $ and drop from the list after all the speculation goes away when the cars arrive.

Let's face it, there is a lot of built up hype because of the magazine articles, but a lot of people are going to be surprised on the size since you can't really tell by the magazine articles and we live in TX where everything has to be bigger

Can you tell i'm an eternal optimist?