Re: [DML] Inadequate Lotus Engineering

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The truth is easy to come by. 

If you don't want to believe Lotus' own chief engineer, the Pennebaker documentary lays it bare on film. Investigative books such as Dream Maker and Grand Illusions lay it bare in print. And of course we have evidence sitting in our own driveways.

Bill Robertson
#5939

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@...> wrote:
>
> According to the "Motorweek" review in 1982, Lotus said it was their "best
> yet." It would seem the truth is very hard to come by. I doubt we will ever
> know it fully.
> 
> Farrar Hudkins
> #2613
> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM, content22207 <brobertson@...>wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > The upgraded front suspension thread seems to have laid bare a fundamental
> > misconception within this community: that Lotus poured its best engineering
> > efforts into the DMC-12. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the BBC
> > Car Crash documentary, Lotus' own chief engineer admits that they really
> > only worked on the car when DMC personnel visited, wheeling the DeLorean
> > mules back out as soon as they left. Mike Loasby repeatedly objected to many
> > engineering aspects of the Lotus design, front suspension among them. To be
> > brutally honest, the DMC-12 is an automotive equivalent of a school paper
> > written the night before it is due.
> >
> > Bill Robertson
> > #5939
> >
> >
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




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