PORSCHE TO BUY LOTUS ENGINEERING ????

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Lifted from Seloc, I personally think it's a hoax buy hey what do I know!!!!

http://forums.seloc.org/viewthread.php?tid=206747

[Chris49]

Hoax surely????? Right?!

[Sam_68]

I hope so! It would be the worst possible thing that could happen to Lotus. The Engineering team would simply be absorbed into Porsche and disappear, and the car manufacturing element could not survive on its own for any length of time.

Unfortunately, it would make perfect sense to Porsche... kill off a competitor and get the best design engineering team in the world, at one fell swoop.

Edited by Sam_68 on Wednesday 4th March 13:46

[NathanE]

It is a hoax. A crap one at that

[Vlad.]

NathanE said:

It is a hoax. A crap one at that

Thank goodness for that.

I don't own a Lotus anymore but I realy hope they don't go under or get swallowed up with the economy as it is.

[beak]

dont worry, its not for real guys..

[TOENHEEL]

Load of poo..

[CooperS]

NathanE said:

It is a hoax. A crap one at that

urm how do you know?

As people have said it makes perfect sense to integrate the skills and experience the lotus engineering team would hold.

Although i doubt its to kill off the cars in the process.

[lee111s]

CooperS said:

NathanE said:

It is a hoax. A crap one at that

urm how do you know?

As people have said it makes perfect sense to integrate the skills and experience the lotus engineering team would hold.

Although i doubt its to kill off the cars in the process.

I have a mate who works at hethel and he's told me it's a load of st

[Chris49]

CooperS said:

NathanE said:

It is a hoax. A crap one at that

urm how do you know?

As people have said it makes perfect sense to integrate the skills and experience the lotus engineering team would hold.

Although i doubt its to kill off the cars in the process.

I belive its been revealed as a hoax on seloc.

[LivinLaVidaLotus]

Yes, it is, Beak needs to learn to type Queens English not the Yank English. Good idea by Psi though, as it's quite plausible.

Edited by LivinLaVidaLotus on Wednesday 4th March 16:57

[NathanE]

CooperS said:

NathanE said:

It is a hoax. A crap one at that

urm how do you know?

As people have said it makes perfect sense to integrate the skills and experience the lotus engineering team would hold.

Although i doubt its to kill off the cars in the process.

Because it would have been on the East Anglian BBC news if it were true. Possibly national news too. ANY activity in the car industry right now, no matter how small, tends to make it to the news. So proton, a malaysian company, selling off one of their biggest assets (Lotus engineering) would certainly have made it to the news by now

That's ignoring the fact that Lotus CEO Mike kimberley is in Geneva this week at the motor show

Edited by NathanE on Wednesday 4th March 19:27