Who owns the Lotus Company?

[tuscan_v8]

Proton?

[magilbert]

Lotus owners, a visitor from the TVR blogs begs your indulgence; who owns Lotus Cars these days? Can't find any reference on the Lotus website, and my Googling brings up...well, you lot, actually, people who own the cars not the company. Help?

[magilbert]

Nice one. They do indeed. Much obliged.

[DodgeyRog]

The parent name is Hicom which owns Proton which owns Lotus.

[wonderland]

I may be completely totally utterly wrong, but didn't the (ex-)owner of Caterham recently buy Lotus from Proton?

[DodgeyRog]

no, the ex general manager Ansa Ali has just bought into Caterham Cars, him along with a few other chaps.

[mastiff]

wonderland said:

I may be completely totally utterly wrong, but didn't the (ex-)owner of Caterham recently buy Lotus from Proton?

"I heard that the war started because Archie Duke shot an ostrich!!!" Sorry - just reminded me of Blackadder.

The Ex-MManaging Director (Ali Ansar)of Lotus headed up a consortium that bought Caterham earlier this year.

M.