{"id":2012,"date":"2010-11-24T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2020-06-18T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:24:08","slug":"british-legend-the-lotus-has-been-driven-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2010\/11\/british-legend-the-lotus-has-been-driven-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"British Legend &#8220;The Lotus&#8221; driven abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lotus.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2013\" title=\"lotus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lotus.bmp\" alt=\"Lotus Car\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>British Legend &#8220;The Lotus&#8221; has been driven abroad<\/h1>\n<p>The British motoring legend Lotus plans to make its new sports cars abroad, after the British Government refused a \u00a350 million Loan. Lotus wants the cash to upgrade its factory to make five new models alongside the current Lotus Elise creating 1,000 jobs over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Cheif executive Dany Bahar was stunned to get the cold shoulder. He can&#8217;t understand why the Government wouldn&#8217;t help the iconic British Brand and create new jobs. He explained that he has calculated the loan with an <a href=\"https:\/\/smarter.loans\/car-loan-calculator\/\">auto loan calculator<\/a> and that they only wanted a loan on a commerical terms and that they were not asking of\u00a0 a gift from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Production will now have to be moved abroad, and the not on effect will be that the UK workforce will be greatly reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus achieved global fame in the 1960&#8217;s when racing cars designed by Colin Chapman were driven to glory by British Champion Jim Clark.<\/p>\n<p>With he government lending the Irish government, \u00a37 Billion. \u00a0I think they should be looking closer to home and helping their own industry.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the government was right to help the Irish Government and not the British Firm Lotus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Legend &#8220;The Lotus&#8221; has been driven abroad The British motoring legend Lotus plans to make its new sports cars abroad, after the British Government refused a \u00a350 million Loan. Lotus wants the cash to upgrade its factory to make five new models alongside the current Lotus Elise creating 1,000 jobs over the next five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14044,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/14044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}