Hard to say unless you have a crystal ball although there's close to no chance new dealer stock Emiras will actually shift for $90K so I agree with you there. However, Lotus need to get this car into buyers' hands without additional delay. Then, production quality will need to be maintained and advanced without rushing cars onto boats to get them off the books. Lotus has never been exemplary at this kind of execution.
I come here everyday to answer one question: mainly, have cars been shifted off the lots? I keep hoping but it's like watching paint dry. Crisp execution is encouraging. Fumbling and bumbling suggest that execution of the plan is not to design. Will the fumble be forgotten once cars are released and prove to be of the high quality we anticipate? I think so but so far this has been a black eye.
We won't know until we can look back on this moment to discover that there's indeed a fresh approach to the market......and to determine if there's a plan for further IC development of this package. Failure to significantly enhance actual performance will throw cold water on the vehicle's future with existing Lotus customers like me who want the Emira benefits AND improved performance over the last generations of the Evora. Not everyone weighs the Emira's feature refinements over previous designs equally vis a vis driving dynamics.
I think (and hope) Emira will do fine both in terms of new car sales and value retention (good value retention is an expected Lotus feature). But the answer to that question is in the future.
