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Never let the facts get in the way of a good story….

Take a little look at what we found online. Don’t you think it’s funny? We do. We had a good old giggle. After all, we love a bit of self irony, just as well really. Although it’s funny, this one’s not accurate but then again, why let the facts get in the way of a good story? The inconvenient truth is – surprise, surprise – we have never said that there are no problems at Lotus.

So whilst lots of people obviously feel the need to comment on Lotus’ current situation in the absence of proper facts or evidence, we can’t ignore these particular mistruths any longer even if we would like to, so we have decided to turn a negative into a positive and use this hilarious piece of ‘art’ to set the record straight regarding the status quo at Group Lotus and try to return a little stability to a fast changing situation.

False rumour #1: Dany Bahar is no longer CEO of Group Lotus.
Fact: Rubbish – Dany Bahar still is.

False rumour #2: Dato’ Sri Syed is no longer Managing Director of Proton.
Fact: Again rubbish. He still is.

You can thank good old Tony Fernandes for these two. Don’t take everything he tweets too seriously – perhaps he’s still frustrated about owning Caterham instead of Lotus and the fact that he fights HRT and Marussia instead of Mercedes and Ferrari in F1.

And whilst we’re on the subject of jokes - do you know the latest F1 joke? Mike Gascoyne, Caterham Group’s Chief Technical Officer, has gone missing. Why? He’s looking for the 30 to 40 points he predicted for the last F1 season. Funny.

Speaking of F1: It seems that one special so called ‘independent’ source is at the root of the lion’s share of damaging rumours and misleading stories. The delightful Joe Saward which leads us nicely to….

False rumour #3: Joe Saward is JUST an independent journalist.
Fact: He is an active Director on the Caterham Group Board.

And unlike some, we don’t want to get too personal, so we’ll leave it to you to judge how ‘independent’ his stories about Lotus are.

False rumour #4: Group Lotus is no longer involved in F1.
Fact: Lotus F1 Team and Group Lotus have reshaped their commercial relationship earlier this year. The new governance agreement signifies the continued commitment of Group Lotus to the team and the sport.

Group Lotus’ branding and marketing rights and subsequent activities remain unaffected by the new agreement until at least 2017. Alongside continued branding and title partnership status, Group Lotus is also the exclusive master licensee for all Lotus F1 Team merchandise.

The new agreement was reached following Group Lotus owners Proton providing team owners Genii with a £30m loan which is repayable within three years. In order to secure the loan Genii used 100% of the F1 team’s assets as collateral meaning that under the conditions of the loan agreement Proton have been given full title guarantee to all plant, machinery, show cars, computers, office and the Lotus F1 Team headquarters.

In addition Proton retains the rights to purchase 10% of the F1 team. Another 10% share option will be activated if the team default on their loan obligations with Proton.

Again we leave it to your judgement how ‘bad’ Lotus’ current situation in F1 is. And speaking of bad situations…..

False rumour #5: Group Lotus is going into administration.
Fact: Rubbish. The takeover of our parent company Proton by DRB-HICOM couldn’t have come at a worse time, but up until that point Proton was (and still remains) fully committed to our five year business plan to create jobs and to expand the factory and business. With the takeover process the funding has been restricted and DRB-HICOM is taking time to understand what to do with the business. DRB-HICOM is currently in the middle of due diligence of Group Lotus and there have been and continue to be positive discussions between Group Lotus senior management and senior management at DRB-HICOM both here in Hethel and in Malaysia. At no point has DRB-HICOM indicated to Group Lotus that it intends to put the company into administration. The over-active rumour mill is seriously damaging our business reputation, image and credibility but it is what it is.

The simple fact is, and we haven’t denied this - Lotus is going through a very difficult phase at the moment but we are showing true fighting spirit every day in trying to keep this vision alive. This is also a fact – no matter what people outside of Lotus may say or tweet or blog.

SUV's engine explodes, man seriously hurt

SEBERANG JAYA: A man was seriously injured early Friday when the engine of his SUV exploded as he turned its ignition key.

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The victim, identified as Lee Chong Beng, 58, suffered 70% burns in the 8.40am incident.

His head was in flames when he was pulled out by neighbours from the vehicle parked outside his house in Taman Sembilang, near here.

The SUV exploded again twice after he was pulled out of it.

Lee was sent to Seberang Jaya Hospital, where he is said to be under critical care.

Initial investigations indicated that the engine could have been faulty.

atreyudevil wrote:Alah, depa ni buta ngan jenama T ngan H hehehe

kalo Vios sama City mcm god like, suma ok, tp aku tgk kat thread depa byk gak problem, pada aku Toyota paling rip off sekali terutama Vios ngan Altis, hard plastic, basic accessories tp harga perghhh!

yinchet wrote:from these pic
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the rear look ok.

atreyudevil wrote:

yinchet wrote:from these pic
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the rear look ok.

am still looking where is the rear fog light!

atreyudevil wrote:more picture

just went to SA in Taiping for a look check the pic below

outside look

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inside look

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ignition with start and stop n everything else

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the touch screen is sensitive but small to my licking n the SA said it uses luckatoo gps

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the fabric do look nice n comfortable

PS: the compartment where the hidden button is actually is keyhole for manually disable the passenger airbag

credit to: valentine1666

marc_zman wrote:

atreyudevil wrote:

yinchet wrote:from these pic
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the rear look ok.

am still looking where is the rear fog light!

fog light leh ke pasang kat belakang? wa rasa cam tak sesuai jer.. kalu drebar terpasang masa drive waktu mlm, mau silau wooo kereta belakang tu

atreyudevil wrote:Fog light depan belakang tu tuk comply Europe punya safety regulation la marc!

marc_zman wrote:

atreyudevil wrote:Fog light depan belakang tu tuk comply Europe punya safety regulation la marc!

fog lite depan wa no hal.. tang belakang tu.. masih menyumpah kat mangkuk yg pasang lampu apekebendantah kat blakang kereta dia.. silau mata wa wooo

marc_zman wrote:kat sini mana ada fog light kat blakang.. ni kira mangkuk terlebih pandai laaa pi pasang lampu apakabendantah kat blakang kereta dia.. nak kata spot light tak jugak coz idak ler sebesar spot lite.. tgh2 elok2 kita follow, sekali dia leh onkan lampu tu.. mau wa tak silau..

marc_zman wrote:kat sini mana ada fog light kat blakang.. ni kira mangkuk terlebih pandai laaa pi pasang lampu apakabendantah kat blakang kereta dia.. nak kata spot light tak jugak coz idak ler sebesar spot lite.. tgh2 elok2 kita follow, sekali dia leh onkan lampu tu.. mau wa tak silau..