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Proton has no plans to sell Lotus

Lotus isn't going anywhere, according to parent company Proton. Autocar reports representatives of Proton's new owner, DRB-HICOM, stopped by Lotus HQ to reassure the company's staff.

Dato Sri Haji Mohd Khamil Bin Jamil, DRB-HICOM group managing director, said his company "is not thinking about a sale." While the executive said that he could never fully dismiss the prospect of sending Lotus off to another owner, right now such a move isn't one of his company's top priorities. Instead, figuring out a course for Lotus could take months. In the meantime, Dato Jamil said his company would continue to support Lotus financially.

Until recently, Proton was owned by the Malaysian government, but DRB-HICOM purchased the company three months ago. Since then, the future of Lotus has been anything but certain. All production and development stopped for 60 days after the deal was inked, but has now officially resumed. Even so, with no clear long-term decision from DRB-HICOM, it remains unclear whether Lotus will pursue the five-year plan laid out by company CEO Dany Bahar.

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/05/11/p...to-sell-lotus/

Nick2JZ

whatever trying to talk tough.................... money talk. http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/27/l...re-production/

natnut

Toyota please buy this company. Use its suspension and handling know-how to juice up the rear-drive Toyotas and Lexii. Let Lotus borrow your engines and reliability/quality/fit-and-finish know-how.(The new Lotuses are using Toyota V6's already anyway.)

BAM. Lexii that handle like the Lotus Esprit. Lotuses with the reliability and quality build of Lexii. Everyone wins.

spwolf

i doubt it... Toyota has been selling engines to Lotus for years, if there was synergy there, they would buy it already.

They use both 4cly and V6s from Toyota.