Lotus Emira

[Matty]

Briefly peaked at 99 Emira's for sale on AT over the weekend apparently.

Also, quote from SELOC
"Out with a friend who buys and sells to the trade, he just bought a 22 Emira with just under 8k miles for 53500. So potentially under £50k by summer for sure."

@Jobbo like I said, rock solid residuals

[Mito Man]

They’ll surely end up in the teens eventually? I see more Emiras in a week in London than I see all the other Lotus models ever made in over a month. They must have already produced more of them than other Lotus ever?

[Jobbo]

I remember how much my Elise depreciated in 3 years. It would now be worth close to its new RRP. V6 manual Emiras must surely be desirable when all new cars are EVs? And they don’t actually make very many so surely they’ll be valuable in future?

Or are they simply not special enough… I’ll find out tomorrow.

[IanF]

35000 Elises were produced over 25 years, just over 6500 Evoras over 11 years, and they sold 3500 Emiras last year with a target of 6000 this year.. should certainly be more choices second hand, not so confident about future values

[speedingfine]

I remember how much my Elise depreciated in 3 years. It would now be worth close to its new RRP. V6 manual Emiras must surely be desirable when all new cars are EVs? And they don’t actually make very many so surely they’ll be valuable in future?

Or are they simply not special enough… I’ll find out tomorrow.

A new ep of Jobbo Test Drives drops over the weekend then

[Matty]

Stolen from SELOC. You'd better get your orders in for a new Emira quick! High demand! No delivery until 2026!

[Matty]

Harry's Emira is up for sale:
https://www.woodstockcarsales.co.uk/use ... re-6060449

Wonder why he's decided to sell?

[mik]

Harry's Emira is up for sale:
https://www.woodstockcarsales.co.uk/use ... re-6060449

Wonder why he's decided to sell?

Interesting. He was always very positive about it, so maybe it’s a one-in-one-out victim (?)

[duncs500]

Harry's Emira is up for sale:
https://www.woodstockcarsales.co.uk/use ... re-6060449

Wonder why he's decided to sell?

Interesting. He was always very positive about it, so maybe it’s a one-in-one-out victim (?)

I demand an explanation!

[Jobbo]

That wouldn’t be a bad one if I were buying. Though I’m not sure I could live with the colour of the interior.

I think Harry probably doesn’t consider it a long term keeper compared to things like the Countach so it might not simply be a victim of one-in, one-out.

[Mito Man]

Does Harry keep any of his new cars long term? Seems to move them on after a few years.

[nuttinnew]

Shirley someone follows him somewhere on the socials so can share if he's shed some light*


We're at that part of the year where we don't have night time. I don't what effect that might have on the idiom. Should he have shed some light, maybe the light he's shed is that he's got shot to shed weight in the shed

[Jobbo]

Does Harry keep any of his new cars long term? Seems to move them on after a few years.

Yes, he does keep many of them very long term. Do you not watch Harry’s Garage? Jag XJC, Elan, 500, Countach, Testarossa for starters off the top of my head. No chance he’ll ever sell the Fulvia Zagato either.