The 90 cluster will look different from the 60 cluster and the 40 cluster. The XC90 isn't a template to scale down to the XC60 and XC40. People are fed up with indistinguishable cars in a range.

Am I the only one who thinks that identifying drivers is easier via roll hoop camera than via helmet?

You're wrong, and I can't tell if it's because you're blindly anti-union, or if you just don't understand basic economics. If you work on an assembly line and you have particular targets to hit, and you always hit your targets, you're a good employee. In your ideal world, if inflation is positive (currently around…

I'm so sorry you have to drive that. Is there nothing that can be done?

You're wrong. Bahar's vision was grand but impossible for Lotus to realize. Yes, if they could've built all those cars and made them great they might have been okay. But they couldn't build them then like they can't build them now. Bahar wanted to make a splash, and he did. It was never a realistic vision all.

I don't disagree, although some of his actions were a tad questionable. I can draw many parallels between his tenure at Lotus and that of Stephen Elop at Nokia. Elop was brought in by Nokia"# board of directors who had realized they were in a wild tailspin and other OEMs were starting to eat their lunch. So, at the…

Indeed...and that is a miracle from Masonry

You know he got axed because Lotus said he was misusing millions of company dollars and renovating his house on their dime, right? Vision or not, Bahar had to go.

The issue with the sad slow death has more to do with the capital investiture in the brand. Bahar for all his vision did not have the money to do what he wanted because the owners of Lotus didn't have the inclination to write him a blank check. He was an executive the way someone playing Risk is a commander of…

My thoughts exactly. It's like they got the go-ahead to buy the company (some Malaysian in-crowd politics probably led to it) but they have zero courage or know-how to actually do anything. Like they're scared stiff and (nearly) frozen, definitely not risking any more investment in the company (and fired scary Bahar),…

Ugh, I can't tell you how much I hate the LED light strip-trend. There isn't a single car in the past 5+ years where those stupid things look good. No matter the design, no matter the company from a lowly KIA, to a luxurious Benz, to an exotic Pagani, they all look like cheap add-ons from AutoZone.

Do you know what keeps automobile manufacturers afloat? Selling cars. You know the easiest way for an automobile exec to lower sales numbers of their current models? Announcing, but not delivering, their replacements.

This...is a step backwards. This is treading dangerously close to "Mansory" territory.

So the really key thing there... the absolutely key thing that you mentioned... that you just dropped in there like it was nothing:

Autocar reports sales have improved steadily in Europe and Asia. They're not really reported on here anymore, given the partial pullout bc of regs, but the new CEO (formerly of PSA) seems to be much better at everything than Dany Bahar. Customers have responded favorably to more power in the Elise/Exige, the Exige…

Obligatory.

Looks great from this angle!

I suspect this is the run up to the transition to pure EV. These figures have been possible for sometime (10 years maybe?) even in the light of CAFE requirements but manufacturers were reluctant for the reasons you explained. Now, knowing we're likely only a generation or two away from going pure EV they can finally…