RE: Lotus announces Hethel improvements

[GranCab]

oilit said:

You know I am not a real Lotus fan, but the fact somebody is investing in them (and one thing we do know is that the Chinese generally don't play by the same rules as US & UK Companies - they normally don't live quarter to quarter or see a long term plan as being 12 months or 2 years - 10 years is not unusual in Chinese business planning.) This all bodes well for Lotus to be resurrected and become something great....

I wish them luck - it doesn't seem to have done them any harm in the smaller segment of the Volvo range (not sure the same can be said about the larger estates which I feel there are less around now then there used to be - but maybe volvo estate type peeps buy the SUV instead!)

And sorry to be pedantic but :

intensive purposes - intents and purposes

diamond dozen - dime a dozen

You missed "pass and parcel" ... part and parcel ?

[Equus]

RemarkLima said:

gianlu said:

Why do they need to put a small lake in front of all these new car manufacturers building? Aston new building, McL new building and now Lotus? Even Tom Hartley "showroom" , wtf is this obsession with water?

Ah, ad good new for lotus, lake or not

I'd always assumed the lakes were some sort of cooling / heating mass for the building's HVAC - you could run some pretty hefty heat pumps off of it all both summer and winter, which no doubt would save a ton of cash on the running cost of a building.

Whilst they can be used as heat stores or heat sinks, they are far more frequently part of the surface water drainage system, acting as 'balancing ponds'.

There are rules on any major new development stipulating that peak surface water run-off from the site in a storm must not exceed the run-off rate you get from a green field. To achieve this, you need to store most of the the sudden run-off from roofs and hard surfaces on site, when there's heavy rain, and allow it to trickle off later, when the rain has abated.

[tuffer]

gianlu said:

Why do they need to put a small lake in front of all these new car manufacturers building? Aston new building, McL new building and now Lotus? Even Tom Hartley "showroom" , wtf is this obsession with water?

Ah, ad good new for lotus, lake or not

So the staff can go fishing at lunchtime.

[Monkey boy 1]

I really hope that something comes of it this time. Nearly all those ideas had been talked about and put into plans under the misguided leadership of a certain Dany Bahar. That time the money was borrowed (and probably never paid back). A factory was built (and never finished). .
This time, under the leadership of Geely, they seem to have money to back up the talk , where as Proton didn't.
There is a slightly more optimistic buzz around from friends & ex-colleagues who work there.
Fingers crossed that it all comes to plan and the marque can be pushed forward into the 21st Century where it belongs and not just the butt of all jokes in the motoring world.