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Was outside the white office building in the car park at the factory with my 430 this morning, 3 guys wander over (who I deemed to be Chinese) Very casual dressed, they looked around the car a bit. I thought I'd be polite, said hello and shook hands all round, no English was spoken by them as pretty brief. Turns out one of them was our new CEO! Nice to see big interest in the car was shown 😀 Looked very busy around office areas, lots going on. Nice

The last GTE graveyard at the factory before most were re-buit. The yellow car turned into my Arctic Silver one once it was completely stripped and rebuilt.

I have also just caught up with this thread. I am also having 'issues' with the factory regarding GT430 which I won't go into on a public forum for now. To say I do feel let down for such a special and expensive product, hopefully things should be sorted out soon. We'll see. Just to add though it has nothing to do with amount of UK RHD cars sold, though agreed that is a kick in the teeth or car quality problems.

I'm with Jonny, think most of us would pay for a ticketed or pay on the door etc to get a 2018 event on board. Or 2019 if too soon to get organised for this year. MBW and Brands always the best car days out of the year. Happy to help if needed. And yes also agree thanks Bibsy for organising over the years.

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My office chair I made and a GTE wheel (wheel for sale if of interest)

Nope you could always get the Auto, just has to wait for correct certification first. This is the only RHD one

Military Grey Auto arriving soon! Just having a few things done to it, changing to black gloss buzzed wheels being one thing. Collecting from Hoffmans Saturday, subject to the stupid snow!

Looks like Top Gear are wanting to do some Lotus stuff, just received this email from Club Lotus as I'm sure lots of others have. BBC Top Gear is embarking on making the best homage film to Lotus we’ve ever made – and we’d like to pull out all the stops to celebrate 70 years of Lotus. The question is relatively simple, but the logistics perhaps less so. To celebrate 70 years, we’d like to amass Lotus cars to Brands Hatch on Thursday March 1st. Speaking with Lotus, we shortlisted: LOTUS FILM CARS Lotus Seven Lotus Elite Lotus Elan Lotus Esprit Series 1 Lotus Esprit Series 2 Lotus Esprit Series 3 Lotus Esprit Series 4 Lotus Carlton Lotus Elise Lotus Exige (Series 1) Lotus Evora Lotus Eleven Lotus Cortina Lotus Europa Lotus Elite Type 75 Lotus Sunbeam Lotus Elan Type 100 Lotus Esprit V8 Lotus 340R That’s 19 stunning cars, with the 20th a surprise! At the moment, the intention is to NOT drive the cars – but do you think you could help source each car with an owner that would be happy for their car to be driven? BBC will fully insure the vehicle and the owner will need to be able to either drive and deliver their car to Brands Hatch for March 1st. Full filming day will be sunrise to sunset. IF the cars are driven, it will be gently. What do you think? We’re at your disposal to make this happen – seeking one owner per vehicle. Many thanks, Rob Rob Searle Researcher | BBC Top Gear A: BC3 C6 | BBC Media Village | 201 Wood Lane | London | W12 7TP Tel: +44 (0) 208 008 0879Mobile: +44 (0)7875 567843 LYNC: 0303 082 6015

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I'm intending to come as well, see you then guys.

I intend to be there, might be something interesting there to pick up!

Military Grey RHD Auto GT430 with Zest yellow accents coming this way soon

Thats not the official Lotus page on Facebook. Someone has just made up a page and posted themselves.