Lotus - are the company's days numbered?
03-16-2012, 08:45 AM
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Lotus - are the company's days numbered?
Could be. Lotus has been in financial trouble for the past couple years. Most people probably don't realize that, as Lotus not that long ago talked about introducing something like 5 new cars, etc. None the less a new financial group has taken controlling interest over their existing financial group and they don't like what they see. Lotus could be shut down.
03-16-2012, 08:48 AM
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Lots of talk related to this on the Lotus boards. I had an Elise at one time and was thinking about getting back into one. This topic has me hesitant to do so, parts were never easy to find, this could make it much worse. Too bad, it's a great focused car.
03-16-2012, 07:22 PM
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I doubt whether their days are over. The brand has great cars and would be a great investment for someone with the money and resources to rebuild it. That said I was not quite taken by Dany Bahar's move to appeal to the Porsche customer and make the cars more mainstream when they introduced the five concepts.
From what I've read Proton and its holdings are being offloaded by the Government of Malaysia to a private party and Lotus is not part of that sale. Dany Bahar appears to be reaching out to help save Lotus. I hope he can succeed in that a buyer is found, with a better vision of how to run Lotus.
Hopefully someone buys it and manages to build fun and sporty cars like the current line up (Elise and Exige) and possibly also build a modern interpretation of the Lotus 7, but then the Ariel Atom and KTM Xbow may already be that and Caterham still makes great cars.
When I see how Jaguar has started to turn around with the new Ian Callum designs, it gives me a glimmer of hope as Lotus cars are not quite as bad as when Jaguar was under Ford (thinking of the X-Type here)
From what I've read Proton and its holdings are being offloaded by the Government of Malaysia to a private party and Lotus is not part of that sale. Dany Bahar appears to be reaching out to help save Lotus. I hope he can succeed in that a buyer is found, with a better vision of how to run Lotus.
Hopefully someone buys it and manages to build fun and sporty cars like the current line up (Elise and Exige) and possibly also build a modern interpretation of the Lotus 7, but then the Ariel Atom and KTM Xbow may already be that and Caterham still makes great cars.
When I see how Jaguar has started to turn around with the new Ian Callum designs, it gives me a glimmer of hope as Lotus cars are not quite as bad as when Jaguar was under Ford (thinking of the X-Type here)
03-16-2012, 08:43 PM
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I don't know why, but when I read the title of this thread, I thought "What!?! Are they still around?" I thought it was referring to the software company. 
03-23-2012, 11:34 AM
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me too
03-23-2012, 12:56 PM
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03-23-2012, 02:19 PM
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Lotus and Lotus Notes, OMG that was a long time ago for me.
03-23-2012, 02:24 PM
#9
I get to use lotus notes on a daily basis 
I hate it.
I hate it.
