Comments on: Spyker wants to buy Lotus

By: ybng

ybng — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:13:15 +0000

I am sure that are lots of reasons to sell, and lots of reasons not to. Are we to know the actual reasons when anything happens ? Guess not !!

By: normal_user

normal_user — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:28:27 +0000

I doubt the bid to buy lotus will never materialized. Its a national asset maa ;-P

P1 will hurt itself (or bungkus itself) if they sell lotus.

By: darren0900

darren0900 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:03:54 +0000

Damn, from earning into loss! now selling their weapon… so speechless… hopefully vw stand take over proton…

By: NEUSS64

NEUSS64 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:19:22 +0000

I agree with Lotus is Proton only weapon, why should Proton sell it?

By: mystvearn

mystvearn — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:17:50 +0000

haha, don't think Proton with all its errors would make a major error and sell Lotus

By: proton GL

proton GL — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:29:57 +0000

last time before even before satria gti, i remember a isuzu piazza turbo(late 80s model) 'handling by lotus' badge-i say wow,

then the saw a piece sticked behind the satria in 1999- great,

last year the vaux astra vxr is actually 'handling by lotus' – id say i trust lotus

i do spin some proton including the gti -its great,yes

lotus not bad

By: avanza

avanza — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:29:23 +0000

Looks like Proton is dumping Lotus for their eventual merger with some big car name.

By: mycar_stolen

mycar_stolen — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:34:35 +0000

buy LOTUS FOR 1 POUND, FREE pROTON SOME MORE? ANYONE

norwich city fc relegated because of Proton logo on their home jersey. same as msian badminton team? lost thomas cup all because proton logo.

see , Proton is one sick 'thing'.

STOP THE BUYING, NO MORE OPEN DOORS WHEN PAY TOLLS.

By: giyzmo

giyzmo — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:35:15 +0000

Selling off Lotus would be a bad move..not many companies can actually brag about owning a company that produces supercars…plus most of the young buyers of proton cars actually buy proton cars becoz of the Lotus technology incoperated into the latest proton cars…they have this saying " Own a Proton , own a small piece of Lotus"

By: BigCar

BigCar — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:20:10 +0000

I think why proton having the financial problem becouse they want tunjuk hebat. They want to be like BMW or Mercedes. Selling a big cars. However, our malaysian not affordable to buy not becouse of tak ada duit but so many tax la.. tax there tax here la… even we have AFTA. Price not much diffrence. So tiru like perodua.. produce small car. All people can buy.

By: drM

drM — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:15:25 +0000

do not let go Lotus for god's sake.

in the name of the all that holy, please keep the our last bastian – Lotus.

so much we've got there, but we are not even 10% explored them.

let MV Agusta's episode remind us of bad decisions cost money. big money.

By: auctioncenter2u

auctioncenter2u — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:49:04 +0000

Don't be silly, I DON'T BELIEVED at all. Its only a RUMOR…….Proton's RUMORS always exist.

Why Proton sell off LOTUS? Any Benefits?

If so, Tengku Mahallee is already waiting for the sales now. Maybe Proton should consider to sell it to TM first.

By: kei9

kei9 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:36:30 +0000

proton should keep it as it it.

By: honda_driver

honda_driver — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:34:22 +0000

I think if proton gets a strong partner, they can technically go on without lotus. why not?

bear in mind that lotus cars, and lotus engineering are 2 different companies.

lotus doesnt jsut make money from selling cars and you dont have to own lotus to benefit from them. lotus engineering does projects for many manufacturers around the world, not just proton. Quite a high percentage of cars sold in europe today have had their ride and handling done by lotus.

By: mofo

mofo — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:29:32 +0000

Its hard to predict P1 decision, all we know P1 have financial issue. No one knows how bad was it. P1 might think about selling Lotus, if the merger with VW talk = successfully. They dun need to rely with Lotus tech.

By: 4G63T DSM

4G63T DSM — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:57:17 +0000

Loose Lotus and Proton would be a non-player in the automotive industry.

Weird, just as when Lotus is having a revival …soon to release the long due Esprit.

By: NiceCar

NiceCar — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:24:54 +0000

Proton sure having the headache about it, since it self having the financial problem, searching the foreign partner problem and etc…

By the way, Lotus is the Proton "only" weapon, will it sell it??