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Old February 1st, 2006, 04:05 PM   #1
 
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Default Lotus Europa turns out to be not Lotus Europa

it seems that previous spy shots of the Lotus Europa were those of the Proton version of the Elise for the Malaysian market. Story supplied byPistonHeads.com
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hmm .. thats odd.. beeing that the europa is identicak to the one spyed for a long time prior to the europa beeing shown..

and that artical was dated befor the europa was shown..

Yes.. offisial pics of the Europa is out..
http://www.supercars.net/cars/3327.html
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and those spy shots look different to Kebab's shots, How?
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hey, those spy shots look like the pics of the 'proton ultimate' circulating on the internet locally.... so is it a proton or a lotus? this is getting confusing.. http://paultan.org/archives/2005/06/...imate-updates/
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that is the europa ..
but it might also be rebadged as a proton ..
(do they sell lotus down there?)
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It probably will be a Proton in Malaysia and a Lotus elsewhere?? After all Proton owns Lotus anyway... images/smilies/smile.gif
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probably proton in strategic areas.. where proton nees to get there sales figuers up
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that is the europa ..
but it might also be rebadged as a proton ..
(do they sell lotus down there?)
i dont think so as ive never seen a lotus showroom, maybe its only the grey imports...
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