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Renault wants to buy (and save) Lotus ??
Yes boys we can think that and I explain to you why :
1- Lotus is in a bad financial situation currently, close of a financial bankruptcy and does not know how to be able to build these news Lotus V6 Exige for example
2- Renault is again as in the past very close in Lotus by the F1 team with its F1 Engine.
3- Lotus-Renault F1 Team has very well results after 1 year only and Renault don't can let this team disappear for financial problems because even if it supplies its F1 engine at 5 teams, Lotus-Renault is the most famous and important for Renault in the History of F1 (aaah the Big time with Senna and Prost ^^)
4- After 2 decades to enlarge its sales everywhere in Europe and in the world by becoming the main shareholder of DACIA for the Eastern Europe and NISSAN for Japan and in the USA especially, Renault search now to have brands of racing cars with big prestige (Nissan built beautiful racing cars as the GTR but Nissan is not really an old prestigious brand of the world motor racing)
5- For that Renault decided to recreate its own old prestige brand ALPINE (which won several world rally "manches" in the 60's & the 70's)
It built a 1st prototype the A110-50 few month ago & apparently decided to launch really in the next months an commercial Alpine car which will be built at approximately 5000 cars
6- All my reflection on that is left by reading this news on an important French website specialized (http://www.turbo.fr/actualite-automobile/505786-renault-alpine-ressuscitee-lotus/) quoting Carlos Tavares, The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Renault, asserting that to conceive its new Alpine, Renault tried to made an association with a builder of famous racing cars.
And this builder has strong chances to be... LOTUS ^^
Renault giving also in this case the production of the future "Infiniti Emerge-E" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct0aEmgt-0E :hail
at Lotus ^^
7- If the new Alpine will be build in its historic factory "Alpine-Renault Sport" in the city of Dieppe in the North of France, its conception & design will be half in Dieppe and half made by Lotus in England. ^^
All that being for Renault an indirect means to help its partner in the F1 championship which is in big financial difficulties
8- How not to see behind this action the urge for Renault of integrated definitively Lotus in its trust "Renault-Nissan-Dacia" to have with Alpine, 2 brands of prestigious racing cars which misses to Renault currently?
Alpine specialized for Europe and Africa and Lotus for the rest of the world and the USA in particular where Lotus is known but not Alpine
I consider hardly that possible personally student for years very closely the commercial strategies of Renault in the world
In all facts yes or no for that, if I see the regretted "Concorde", the great supersonic jet, half French, half British, I'm sure that the future new Alpine conceived & designed half in France and half in England, will be a great racing car !! ^^
Wait and see now
Yes boys we can think that and I explain to you why :
1- Lotus is in a bad financial situation currently, close of a financial bankruptcy and does not know how to be able to build these news Lotus V6 Exige for example
2- Renault is again as in the past very close in Lotus by the F1 team with its F1 Engine.
3- Lotus-Renault F1 Team has very well results after 1 year only and Renault don't can let this team disappear for financial problems because even if it supplies its F1 engine at 5 teams, Lotus-Renault is the most famous and important for Renault in the History of F1 (aaah the Big time with Senna and Prost ^^)
4- After 2 decades to enlarge its sales everywhere in Europe and in the world by becoming the main shareholder of DACIA for the Eastern Europe and NISSAN for Japan and in the USA especially, Renault search now to have brands of racing cars with big prestige (Nissan built beautiful racing cars as the GTR but Nissan is not really an old prestigious brand of the world motor racing)
5- For that Renault decided to recreate its own old prestige brand ALPINE (which won several world rally "manches" in the 60's & the 70's)
It built a 1st prototype the A110-50 few month ago & apparently decided to launch really in the next months an commercial Alpine car which will be built at approximately 5000 cars
6- All my reflection on that is left by reading this news on an important French website specialized (http://www.turbo.fr/actualite-automobile/505786-renault-alpine-ressuscitee-lotus/) quoting Carlos Tavares, The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Renault, asserting that to conceive its new Alpine, Renault tried to made an association with a builder of famous racing cars.
And this builder has strong chances to be... LOTUS ^^
Renault giving also in this case the production of the future "Infiniti Emerge-E" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct0aEmgt-0E :hail
at Lotus ^^7- If the new Alpine will be build in its historic factory "Alpine-Renault Sport" in the city of Dieppe in the North of France, its conception & design will be half in Dieppe and half made by Lotus in England. ^^
All that being for Renault an indirect means to help its partner in the F1 championship which is in big financial difficulties
8- How not to see behind this action the urge for Renault of integrated definitively Lotus in its trust "Renault-Nissan-Dacia" to have with Alpine, 2 brands of prestigious racing cars which misses to Renault currently?
Alpine specialized for Europe and Africa and Lotus for the rest of the world and the USA in particular where Lotus is known but not Alpine
I consider hardly that possible personally student for years very closely the commercial strategies of Renault in the world
In all facts yes or no for that, if I see the regretted "Concorde", the great supersonic jet, half French, half British, I'm sure that the future new Alpine conceived & designed half in France and half in England, will be a great racing car !! ^^
Wait and see now
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