Lotus goes Italian!
John Swinfield's Big Business
English - September 01, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBDocumentary Society & Culture Personal Journals documentary history journalist writer journalist memories business moguls industrialist bbc itv Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After the death of motor racing legend Colin Chapman, his Lotus car company was bought by Italian car boss Romano Artiolli, who had previously resuscitated fabled Bugatti cars.
Artiolli later sold Lotus to Proton cars of Malaysia. Today it’s controlled by Geely cars of China. During his ownership of Lotus Artiolli met with the boss of Ford Cars, a meeting engineered by the presenter of this podcast John Swinfield. Ford owned Aston Martin, the James Bond car. Bond had also driven a Lotus in one of his films. Perhaps the two James Bond car companies might get together?