Could Lotus end up in the hands of General Motors?
That's one intriguing possibility following a story in Autocar which suggests that the giant US carmaker has expressed an interest in buying loss-making Proton, the Malaysian company that owns Lotus.
GM has both owned and made use of Lotus' chassis honing skills in the past, and of course, the Hethel-built Vauxhall VX220 -- perhaps the best Vauxhall that very few people ever bought -- demonstrated an even closer relationship, consisting as it did of a Elise chassis under a different body and engine.
Whether GM would retain Lotus were it to buy Proton is unclear at this stage -- but Lotus, like most small sports car makers, is not stranger to a rocky financial ride.