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Tuning car based on Lotus has been created by German manufacture PG and Düsseldorf-based automobile designer Michael Fröhlich. The Lotus Elise will features an electric motor powered by a lithium-ion battery and dressed the body with a carbon fibre to make this car more lighter. It also have solar panel mounted behind the driver that using sun’s energy and convert it to power up the batteries. The roadster model’s could produce 272 horsepower and 350Nm of torque and enough to propel the PG Elektrus to 100km/h in less than 3 second. The top speed of this car is 300km/h.
The audio system allows the drive to select from a range of sounds that emulate real engines including a full bodied V8 and a Formula One racecar. The German company has plans to produce a total of 667 examples of the Elektrus, each with a starting price of €240,000 (US$312,400).
New Proton owner, DRB-Hicom would consider to sale the Group Lotus after look the plans and operations. China’s Shanghai Auto, reportedly interested to acquire Lotus but new owner never received any offer.
On DRB-HICOM’s plans for taking Proton private, Mohamad Khamil said no stakes in the struggling carmaker would be sold to foreign entities.
However, it was open to possible technical cooperation with global players like General Motors, Volkswagen and Honda, he said, adding that he aimed to turn Proton around within five years.
Proton has been criticised for poor-quality and unimaginative cars and has struggled to stay in the black in recent years.
Source :- AFP Google
I’m agree with new Proton’s owner. Why keep if there’s no profit? I think new owner must focuss on to upgrade their car rather than buy any carmaker. Let’s Proton get attention worldwide and not just in local market only.
There’s a rumours, Proton will sell their stake in Group Lotus but they denied the rumors. Proton has make statement that their relationship with Group Lotus is still good. They still waiting for Lotus new products to achieve their goals. The Lotus involvement in F1 as title sponnsor could create dynamic marketing and branding synergies.
Source :- Bernama
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For next season F1, the two Lotus brand, Team Lotus and Group Lotus want to change their team name. The Team Lotus that being owned by Malaysian tychoon, Tony Fernandes will change to Caterham related brand while Renaul will becoming the sole Lotus. F1 did not encouraged to change he name so it need to approved by sport’s F1 Commision.
Name changes aren’t something that should be encouraged,” agreed FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh.
“But if you’ve got two Lotus names in Formula One it strikes me that isn’t desirable, it’s not what people really need or want in the sport,” the McLaren boss told Reuters.
Source :- Motorsport
Yeah.. I think it’s better to change the name to diffirentiate among those team…