Who Would Be The Best Owner To Breathe Life Back In To Lotus?

James Bond stopped using Lotus as his vehicle of choice to fight villains 30 years ago. Investors say Malaysia's Proton Holdings Bhd. should follow suit in abandoning the sports-car maker.

Proton, the Malaysian maker of sedans and taxis that bought control of Lotus in 1996, hasn't made any profit from the British unit for 15 years and probably won't at least until 2014. Now that Proton itself may be divested by its state-run parent, investors such as Gan Eng Peng say Lotus Group International Ltd. is ripe for a sale.

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DuDE - 12/29/2011 12:52:39 PM

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Obvious answer?
Toyota

MorePower - 12/30/2011 3:27:05 AM

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Hardly, Toyota needs their help the most, but they are not Lotus' answer.

DuDE - 12/30/2011 11:09:13 AM

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Toyota recently invested heavily on Tesla
Maybe they are interested in Lotus. After all,they have been the main supplier for engines to the brand

MorePower - 12/30/2011 8:18:28 PM

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Toyota invested in Tesla for the same reason MB did, the battery and electric propulsion tech.

Driver8 - 12/29/2011 8:45:12 PM

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Breathe life back into lotus? WTF?
It is now back in F1, Indycar and soon to be back in rallying.
It has developed in v8 engine and is an engine supplier.
It has now evora, evora S and the new exige a reality
And it has more models in the pipeline.

Who knows if they will be successful but they are far from dead.

MorePower - 12/30/2011 3:32:44 AM

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From Lotus' history and company philosophy, Honda would make an amazing partner. Unfortunately, I doubt Honda is in the financial position to even think about it.

I would look toward an independent entity to acquire Lotus, perhaps David Richards and Prodrive or possibly McLaren or VAG.