It's always nice to report something positive from Hethel. Following the excellent Elise S Cup comes the news that Lotus global sales are up 54 per cent in the first nine months of the 2014/15 financial year compared to 2013/14.
Of course selling 1,565 cars compared to 1,014 is a tiny drop in the car selling ocean but it's a significant step in the right direction for Lotus. By region the biggest gains have been in France (143 per cent), China (130 per cent) and Japan (125 per cent). In Britain Lotus has sold 88 per cent more cars.
These figures will have been aided by the introduction of more Lotus dealerships, the total now standing at 163, or 25 more than nine months ago. There are 50 more scheduled before the end of this year.
There's more good news too. We're promised an "exciting reveal" in Geneva, a car that will adhere to Lotus's "core pillars of lightness, performance and driving purity." That's all Lotus has revealed thus far, leaving us free to speculate - although our previous conversation with newish boss Jean-Marc Gales suggests that it will be a revised Evora.
Lotus is still some way off Gales' stated aim of selling 3,000 cars a year, at which he says the company would be both profitable and sustainable. But it's certainly moving in the right direction.