To no one’s surprise, DBR-Hicom – owners of Lotus – have terminated Danny Bahar’s employment and replaced him with Aslam Farikullah. The tenure of Dany Bahar at Lotus has not been an easy one. But now it’s over with DBR-Hicom ending Bahar’s supension with a termination of his employment. Lotus has always been engineering driven, but Bahar’s […]
Lotus boss Dany Bahar ousted
Controversial Lotus boss Dany Bahar has been suspended from Lotus pending an enquiry in to his conduct. Since ex-Ferrari man Dany Bahar arrived at Lotus it’s all turned in to a bit of a soap opera. From announcing the creation of six new Lotus cars and plans to turn Lotus in to an East Anglian cross […]
Lotus to build own V8 for Lotus ‘More Authentic’ than 458 or MP4-12C
Dany Bahar – Lotus CEO – says Lotus are to build their own V8, and that the new Esprit will be more authentic than a 458 or MP4-12C. We thought Lotus were mad brave to announce to the world last year that they were turning themselves in to an East Anglian Aston Martin with a completely […]
New Lotus Esprit is real. The rest of the Lotus ‘Wish List’ isn’t
Lotus revealed the Eterne, Elite, Elan, Esprit and a new Elise at last months’ Paris Motor Show. But only the New Lotus Esprit is actually being developed. The biggest surprise at the Paris Motor Show last month was a veritable shoal of new Lotus (Lotuses? Loti?) – far beyond anything we had expected. What we […]
New Lotus: The £770 million future
It seems that Lotus has a £770 million war chest to make the concepts at the Paris Motor Show a reality. The star of the Paris Motor Show for us was Jaguar with the C-X75 Concept. But if we were a little less cynical it would have been the New Lotus Concepts. But why the […]
New Lotus Esprit revealed
Lotus has revealed the new Lotus Esprit, featuring the same power options as the new Lotus Elite and due in 2013. We’ve been banging on that the new Lotus Esprit would turn up at the Paris Motor Show forever. It seemed the most logical step, but then Lotus went and shoved a spanner in the […]
Lotus lusts after Lutz?
Lotus are looking to grab GM’s Bob Lutz in an effort to take the Hethel car maker away from founder Colin Chapman’s vision and firmly in the direction of bigger and more luxurious. The Lotus five year plan calls for the track day cars to make way for much more substantial and upmarket cars to […]
New Lotus Esprit about to debut?
Lotus are promising the “…evolution of an icon” at the Paris Motor Show. Are we finally about to get the new Lotus Esprit? The truth is we don’t actually know. As far as a new Lotus Esprit goes, we’re pretty sure Lotus signed the Esprit off for production late last year after the Evora – which needed […]
Lotus gets Ferrari Designer
Former Ferrari designer Donato Coco is to join Lotus as Director of Design alongside his former Ferrari colleague Dany Bahar who is now Lotus CEO. As we’ve reported umpteen times this year, Lotus are getting things very right. They’re selling the new Lotus Evora hand over fist and have plans in place to a convertible […]
Lotus to double production – Return to Motorsport
Lotus has big plans to increase production to 8,00 cars a year in the next decade, and return to Le Mans, Indy Car and GT Racing. Through all the gloom and doom car makers have reported over the last year and more there has been one shining light which has seemed impervious to the downturn […]