Ralph
06-28-05, 11:31 PM
What do you think of this? Better than the white one Roger Moore drove in The Spy Who Loved Me?
"From East Anglia to East Asia - production of a new Lotus is heading out of Norfolk for the first time ever.
The famous sports car manufacturer is running out of room at its home in Hethel, near Norwich. And now bosses say they could shift production of the firm's forthcoming new Esprit - the first details of which were revealed on its 2005 calendar - to a plant in Malaysia. That's where parent company Proton is based.
The Esprit was axed last year, and the popular Elise two-seater now takes up all the UK factory's capacity. A Lotus spokesman said: "Production of the new Esprit will begin in 2007, but the Hethel site simply isn't big enough to cope. We believe people would rather see us spend money on product development than increasing existing facility capacity." However, the future of the plant has been guaranteed for at least the next 10 years, with production of the Elise likely to remain in the UK."
"From East Anglia to East Asia - production of a new Lotus is heading out of Norfolk for the first time ever.
The famous sports car manufacturer is running out of room at its home in Hethel, near Norwich. And now bosses say they could shift production of the firm's forthcoming new Esprit - the first details of which were revealed on its 2005 calendar - to a plant in Malaysia. That's where parent company Proton is based.
The Esprit was axed last year, and the popular Elise two-seater now takes up all the UK factory's capacity. A Lotus spokesman said: "Production of the new Esprit will begin in 2007, but the Hethel site simply isn't big enough to cope. We believe people would rather see us spend money on product development than increasing existing facility capacity." However, the future of the plant has been guaranteed for at least the next 10 years, with production of the Elise likely to remain in the UK."