Lotus Emira

The Lotus Emira is trading at a median of US$89,500 in the US market, representing a discount of roughly US$4,500 from its FX-converted list price of US$94,000. With only five tracked sales over the past twelve months, the sample remains too small to establish a reliable year-over-year trend, though the broader pattern suggests modest downward pressure from launch pricing.

Transaction activity is extremely limited, with just fourteen total sales tracked across the entire dataset and zero active listings at present. This thin liquidity creates friction for both buyers and sellers, narrowing the window for negotiation and making price discovery difficult in a fragmented market.

Cars transacted have shown low mileage, averaging 3,470 miles, typical of cars in the early years of ownership or held briefly before resale. The low utilization suggests these vehicles are being treated as keepers rather than driven daily, yet are still finding their way to market relatively quickly.

The Emira carries a collectibility score of 3 out of 10, classified as having modest demand with low desirability in the secondary market. Without global production volume data readily available, the car's rarity proposition remains unclear, but the combination of depreciating modern classification and weak transaction momentum suggests limited collector interest so far.

Looking ahead, the base projection models a decline to US$76,701 over three years, a 14.3 percent depreciation from current levels, with further erosion to US$74,415 by year five. These forecasts reflect the pressures of being a modern performance car with modest buyer enthusiasm and thin market depth, where early-adopter demand has not translated into stable secondary-market support.