This is a joke, right?

[Guest surferphil]

I appoint Ronin for the following reasons:

The cars will all go like they are running on nitrous

There will be no marketing bullshit

The brand coverage will be every where you look

The press realise will be all over the internet on every forum no escape!

No one will be able to argue with the raw logic

No one in the world will be unclear about the Lotus future direction

All cars will be road legal in the United States

Lotus cars will be re branded Lotus Power!

Crack dealers and gangsters wanting a bling ride will be barred form Lotus showrooms

and puff zee dizzy beats will be told No!

Oh and Salma Hayek can marry me.

[ronin]

Only after i have canyon tested her to make sure she can handle the torque..... i wouldn't want her breakin down just when things were gettin hot....

[ronin]

This makes me laugh a YouTube video interview with 54 hits....

Oh yeah

This is Swizzle's new favorite ride not the Lotus he can't drive in the US, it's chrome also.

Edited December 18, 2011 by ronin

[Guest surferphil]

Is that screen around the pool a safety feature to stop him falling in?

[Moxie]

Ah, journalism at its finest. Madam Mayhem's glove has more tenacity than she does.

Regarding screens around pools, in most parts of the US it's a property/liability insurance requirement, the theory being that a kid could fall in and drown themselves.

[ronin]

And if your parent was named Swizzle you are more than likely lookin for a way into the deep end....

[Moxie]

OK, I spit food out laughing at that. My laptop screen thanks you since it needed cleaning anyway.

[yeller77]

Just saw this again, seems the Swizz thing may have been done in the past, only better...

[Moxie]

Isn't that the first yellow car ever?

[Guest surferphil]

And if your parent was named Swizzle you are more than likely lookin for a way into the deep end....

Surely he was neutered before he could do any damage to a future generation.

[Moxie]

If Swizz Beatz is the new Vice President of Creative Design and Global Marketing, does that mean if they get the new Esprit in the next Bond film that this will be the new Q?...

Actually, I love Q-Tip and think it would be hilarious of he played Q, particularly if he played it straight.

And by the way, he's from Queens and not da Bronx, like Swizz. Represent!!!

[Guest surferphil]

Q has to be a geek from London, Engerland in the UK. No Q tipster from da east side block MF should be in da branch, you no wot I sayin!

He could be Felix the brother from NY NY though?

[Moxie]

Actually, I always thought Clive Owen would be an amusing Felix Leiter.

[Moxie]

I was back in NYC earlier this year and I can tell ya a Lotus will self destruct after a drive through the city....

No comment: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/us/in-los-angeles-driving-is-a-jarring-experience.html

[Moxie]

OMFG. Just read this and laughed my ass off. Note the CEO, paragraph 6: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/megaupload-indicted-shuttered/

[ronin]

http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/

[ronin]

Now what are Dany and Lotus gonna say.... http://gizmodo.com/5...kill-megaupload

Boy I gotta say this is the new Lotus...

Edited January 20, 2012 by ronin

[B33 ENN]

I don't honestly know much about Swizz, but a quick internet search shows up he's a big car collector owning such things as an Enzo, a Spyker, Mercedes McLaren etc.

That's nothin', you should see Missy Elliot's collection!

They shoulda used Ali G: same marketing potential as Swizz, just a lot cheaper.

[Iconic Ride]

How is it that they've arrested everybody but the CEO? $20 says Swizz sings and walks.

[Moxie]

Roger that. Perhaps he's already sung. Hard to imagine this scenario, with no advance notice and foreign arrests, if they didn't already have someone they thought could wrap up the whole show.

Maybe Swizz wanted to get it out of the way because it was distracting him from his good work at Lotus.

[B33 ENN]

Having said that, if I was in the market for an Elise/Exige I would definitely have gone for the Roger Becker edition

I know what you mean, I almost did. But that sort of marketing tends to work on me. I could be a customer for the next generation Lotus cars, but I'm looking at other brands as more tempting in those price brackets.

If they had to use celebs, and if Lotus wanted to get my attention, they'd likely have succeeded more by using real car nut enthusiasts like Jay Kay or Rowen Atkinson.

[Quicker]

feels somethin is right - when this problem took care of itself...

[Iconic Ride]

Karma is a powerful force, Lou.

[Quicker]

more - http://www.gtspirit.com/2012/01/20/update-megaupload-founder-kim-schmitz-cars-being-seized/

[Kimbers]

Maybe Swizz wanted to get it out of the way because it was distracting him from his good work at Lotus.

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