Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by duggiesmith » Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:17 pm

Fantastic pics Scott and great write up. Sounds like a once in a lifetime experience.
Thanks for sharing :thumbsup
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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by H8OAG » Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:43 pm

Good write up Scott

Not many Manufacturers would devote that amount of time and effort to win the hearts and minds of current Lotus enthusiasts about their strategy for the future

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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by delands » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:54 pm

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Hope they dont have to use that... battery fault, erm, aint that their UPS system?
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Post by pete » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:54 pm

Thanks for the write up - looked awesome.
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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by mwmackenzie » Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:44 pm

Sounds like you had a great time Scott! Great pics, thanks for sharing!! :mrgreen:

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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by tut » Sun May 01, 2011 9:30 am

Congrats on the excellent write up Scott, and also for the number and quality of the pictures you took. Apart from the cars, the size of their computer was something else.

Glad now that I did not win it, no way could I have matched photos like that, even if I had remembered to take Verian's camera to take any. I wonder if I had lent you my video sunglasses whether they would have spotted them.

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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by campbell » Mon May 02, 2011 12:32 am

tut wrote: I wonder if I had lent you my video sunglasses whether they would have spotted them.

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Grand writeup, Scott, don't see that you could add much to that and the pics do indeed tell quite a story.

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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by Dominic » Thu May 05, 2011 10:13 am

Great write up Scott!

I was excited (and very jealous) just reading it - must have been truly awesome to be there - loved seeing every one of your photos; from the factory, the classic team lotus, and the F1 stuff. :thumbsup
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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by Corranga » Thu May 05, 2011 1:37 pm

Great photos and write up Scott, certainly looked like a proper day to remember!

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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by GraemeLotus » Wed May 25, 2011 3:31 pm

Really good to read this, it's now routine to come in here every day for work but it looks and sounds lots more exciting through the eyes of a third party! Glad you enjoyed it Scott, sorry I wasn't here to say hello. I have to help host 22 US customers on a similar event on Thursday/Friday...including a speech :cry:
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Re: Lotus factories special visit - 27th April

Post by s29ttc » Fri May 27, 2011 5:20 pm

Tour was epic, really enjoyed myself. Hope your hosting goes well, I'll be down near you tomorrow, heading down to Stevenage for a random road trip with my mate in Kennys old diesel pug with 140k on the clock, should be interesting!
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