rumors : Proton plan to sell off Lotus to China Youngman

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/262208/

cant imagine where will the future proton stand without the support from Lotus Engineering...

so Y-family engines project gonna scrap too if this news is real?

ya..its true..but what about most important portion of car, the Powertrain? i think without lotus engineering, there wont be appearance of the current CFE where everyone here is brag about..

future Y-family engines? future mass-production hybrid-system?

lolx..if not mistaken, it is the previous 'top management' who has set the wrong objectives for the development of campro as they want the 'campro' to be the 'performance' type of engine rather than fuel saving engine? and that why when u see on paper, the max HP produced by campro isn't that bad, but to achieve that, high RPM needed, thus u get the 'harsh & lethargic' engine and poor driveability experience during towning due to poor torque @ low RPM zone..

furthermore, i remembered some1 mentioned b4 (perhaps is mat79), the initial 'campro kosong' is juz a piece of incomplete work due to internal problems (cost perhaps?) and the campro is actually capable to add in VIM + CVVT +DI as the final product, but what do we get in the end?

what i'm concerning is that do the current proton R&D team capable to produce 'good enough' new series of engines without collaboration of lotus engineering team?

and yes u are right, turbocharging an engine doesn't need rocket science, but what about 'optimizing' the turbo-charged engine? i juz dont think any manufacturers can simply produce an engine that is well optimized as we can see in TSI?

correct me if i'm wrong :>

btw, by letting go lotus, perhaps in next 3-5 years time we can get re-badge proton with VW's TSI (consider that TSI is no longer the latest tech by VW in let's say 5 years time?)

hahaha~~~

This post has been edited by siaokialeong: Apr 11 2012, 03:53 PM