Yes, you’ve read it right. The flamboyant Lotus CEO, Dany Bahar got suspended recently by Proton and Lotus new parent owner, DRB-Hicom after they discovered his excessive spending on renovating his rented house using company funds. Now, Group Lotus has just announced that Dany Bahar is no longer with group Lotus and now replaced by… Read more »
A recent article in Bloomberg revealed some financial analysis suggested ailing automotive company Proton should sell off Lotus, seeing that Proton and Lotus are not meant for each other. Proton, who has driven back into profit in recent years, thanks to the helm of former Perodua MD, Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin, has their profit plunged… Read more »
Continuing from where we left (Volume 1), here are our next picks from the Frankfurt Motorshow 2011! The Land Rover DC100 concept. Set to replace the iconic Defender which has been with Land Rover for many years. Set to launch in 2015, we may not be expecting the Defender to be a funky 3 door… Read more »
In Italy, the Italian Polizia di Stato (state police) has the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Polizia as patrol car for high speed pursuit, donated by Lamborghini in 2008. The Italian police force of the Carabinieri meanwhile, has just received two units of Lotus Evora S to serve the Italian Police Force in cities of Rome and… Read more »
By now you all must have known that Team Lotus belongs to Tony Fernandes and company after last Friday’s verdict from UK court. Group Lotus (aka Team Proton) may have won the case where they have the rights to use the name Lotus in F1, but the iconic Formula One team name, “Team Lotus” belongs… Read more »
Team Lotus has officially announced that they have bought over Caterham, the legendary sports car maker in UK, which is actually a spiritual successor to Colin Chapman’s original Lotus cars. Also announced is Caterham will be branded together with Team Lotus in Formula One. That means Tony Fernandes will bring the Caterham brand into new… Read more »
In a very interesting development on the Lotus naming spat: Caterham, another British icon specialized in lightweight sports cars, has announced it has been bought over by Team Lotus.The Kent-based sports car company that is famous for making the Caterham 7 car (which is based on Lotus 7 sports car created by Lotus founder the… Read more »
Lotus’s Toyota-powered Elise and Exige is coming to an end soon in July for the North Americans, as the supply of Toyota 2ZZ-GE engines has finally run out. To send these two successful models off, the Malaysian-owned British automaker has arranged for a special farewell, by releasing a very limited units of Final Editions for… Read more »
This weekend is perhaps one of the most packed events for motorsports enthusiasts in Malaysia. There are two F1 street demonstrations, one by Team Lotus in Putrajaya and another by Red Bull Racing in Bukit Bintang. Down south in Johor is the 1st round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) which is the Rally of Malaysia, in which the… Read more »
The original Lotus Esprit was started way back during the 70′s when it has began to become an iconic cult among petrolheads. Back in cinema in 1977, apart of seeing Luke Skywalker flying off the X-wing into Deathstar in the original Star Wars that shocked audiences, I bet cinema goers will remember the white Lotus… Read more »
This is another bizarre accident that happened in UK, almost as epic as our flying Toyota Vios. A family in UK woke up on a Sunday morning and saw a red Audi TT hanging in the wall of their living room. Well, that’s not the only problem, their parked BMW 3 Series Coupe and an Audi A4 Avant were the casualties.
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