{"id":2995,"date":"2012-03-07T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2012-03-07T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:26:02","slug":"evo-funding-delays-hold-up-exige-evora-gte-and-esprit-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/evo-funding-delays-hold-up-exige-evora-gte-and-esprit-development\/","title":{"rendered":"EVO &#8211; Funding Delays Hold Up Exige, Evora GTE and Esprit Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2757\" title=\"Dany Bahar Office\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evo.co.uk\/news\/evonews\/279961\/lotus_development_halted.html\" target=\"_blank\">EVO Magazine<\/a> have posted exerts from an exclusive interview with Lotus Cars CEO Dany Bahar discussing the DRB-Hicom buyout of Proton and it&#8217;s impact on Lotus&#8217; car development programme.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the development freeze the launch dates for the Exige S and Evora GTE have both been pushed back, along with delays of up to 6 months for the new Esprit model.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the likelihood of DRB-Hicom continuing with the current Lotus business plan, Bahar gave an answer of &#8220;I really hope they will but I cannot call \u2028it at the moment, it\u2019s still 50:50.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evo.co.uk\/news\/evonews\/279961\/lotus_development_halted.html\" target=\"_blank\">read the full piece on the EVO website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.seloc.org\/viewthread.php?tid=331148\">SELOC Chat &#8211; Any problems Lotus?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVO Magazine have posted exerts from an exclusive interview with Lotus Cars CEO Dany Bahar discussing the DRB-Hicom buyout of Proton and it&#8217;s impact on Lotus&#8217; car development programme. As a result of the development freeze the launch dates for the Exige S and Evora GTE have both been pushed back, along with delays of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[197,215,279,294,304,321,328,364,429],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus","tag-dany-bahar","tag-development-freeze","tag-esprit","tag-evo-magazine","tag-evora-gte","tag-exige-s","tag-exige-v6","tag-funding-freeze","tag-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}