Lotus Omega... old school baby

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:24 am

prostituting themselves to the carmakers of the world........

Post by **simon** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:44 pm

Yep, like Shug said there's a surprising number of cars out there that have had Lotus input
The Aston Vanquish has a Lotus designed bonded aluminium chassis not unlike the Elise and VW recently had them working on a three wheeler that they were looking at putting into production.

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:55 pm

Proton Personas also had Lotus handling input (accordingly to the decals) and i used to wince everytime I walked past one.

now I console myself in the knowledge they're under the same ownership...

Still, when my car was born, Lotus were still owned by Bugatti

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:33 pm

Word is that Lotus Engineering are working with the Chinnese MG guys on the MGF which they are talking about launching next year. Lets hope they asked for some cash up front on that job.

Lotus Carlton - the car the Daily Mail tried to get the Government to ban. I'm sure there was a debate in the Commons about the LC at the time.

Post by **simon** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:05 pm

GregR wrote:Proton Personas also had Lotus handling input (accordingly to the decals) and i used to wince everytime I walked past one.

now I console myself in the knowledge they're under the same ownership...

Still, when my car was born, Lotus were still owned by Bugatti

Don't you meant the Proton Satria?
Not meant to be all that bad IIRC.

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:05 am

That could well be the jobbie Si - rather worried at your depth of Proton knowledge though

Post by **simon** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 11:22 am

GregR wrote:That could well be the jobbie Si - rather worried at your depth of Proton knowledge though

There's a few of them in Dundee. The drivers usually get pretty excited when they see the Elise so at least they know what the Lotus connection actually means