Filed under: Coupes, Supercars, Lotus
Lotus planning entrance into India
Like any automaker looking to solidify its future in the next
Anything that brings the sublime steering and point-and-shoot nature of Lotus to the masses is a good thing, and with a successful run of cars in Thailand and Mexico, India might prove to be yet another financial boom that can allow Lotus to continue building supremely engaging cars.
[Source: InsideLine]
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paul34 8:07PM (12/11/2007)
Hmm. This isn't going to work well with India's POS roads.
Unless things have changed significantly in road engineering since I was there last (2004).
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VP 8:37PM (12/11/2007)
Some of the highways around major cities like Mumbai have seen a vast improvement in the past few years. Yeah overall there is still no traffic sense.
tankd0g 9:17PM (12/11/2007)
I guess you'll jut have to go round and round the F1 track with it all day.
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lintsniffer 9:51PM (12/11/2007)
fine with me...
though there are better cars I'd like to track.
Rob 11:24PM (12/11/2007)
Lintsniffer, If you're going to call it inferior, at least have the stones to name one better.
Deep 11:41PM (12/11/2007)
Most of the buyers in India are the new rich who want a show boat like a SLK or Audi TT both of which are doing very well. A serious sports car like the Elise has neither snob value nor comfort ......and will bomb for sure.
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DesiAuto 11:43PM (12/11/2007)
As usual, typical comments about "traffic sense" and road quality in India.
You guys keep vomitting crap everytime there is a positive "auto" news about India, while almost every company either common market or niche continues to invest or plans to invest in India. And they know something that obviously you don't.
Good move Lotus!
My personal dream is to drive an American icon (i.e. Mustang or 'Vette) on Indian roads. That would be so much satisfying and fun! Think of driving one of those shelby mustang on national highway 8 (NH8) ...
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Snark 12:07AM (12/12/2007)
If you drove the Elise anywhere in India, you'd be peeing blood for months. Your kidneys would be mush.
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