Jun 22, 2012 4:17:37 PM
- charliecleanup
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Re: Group Lotus boss Dany Bahar suspended
This whole thing IMHO is about I think two things : 1. the past issue of the lotus team with Tony Fernandez where Proton lost the suit in London and 2. the changing of the political situation in Malaysia where the old guard is under attack by the opposition party. Someone needed to be blamed so not to say the guy in completely innocent (I dont know) however someone needed to be blamed and they could not touch Tony Fernandez so best to blame this guy....the point is wherever a british car company is concerned, especially Lotus and the Malaysian government is involved you need to look beyond what is served up in the mainstream press...
The problem for Lotus now is that in North America at least the ability to finance one of their cars is insanely difficult at best with the banks now not interested in doing so and dealers chopping of $20,000 and trying to dump cars at dealer auctions and not getting any bids. So unless you are a cash buyer (which is not how the majority of car sales are done today) it becomes with this circus going on a crisis of confidence (kind of sounds like the banks themselves)
The two pronged approach needs to be of product and the financial support of either leasing or financing to help drive sales and quite frankly they dont seem to be able to accomplish that at the moment....