Ansar Ali confirms it, Caterham wants to buy the Elise

If a couple of days ago we were astonished by the statements made by Ansar Ali, CEO of a brand as important in the English and European market as Caterham, about the hypothetical idea of developing a new model, today we have to say that he has ended up making a real mess of it.

As you will remember, according to the latest statements, which spoke of a new model developed by Caterham exclusively to occupy that slice of the market that other brands were determined to abandon, which is why we thought of Lotus as the closest example, a company that is in full structural restructuring and is determined to leave a certain sector in order to compete directly with the most cutting-edge brands in the supercar market.

Well, as I was saying, things today go a bit further, and we can say that in his latest statements Ansar Ali has directly commented that Caterham is determined to buy both the production tools and the intellectual property rights of the Elise from Lotus. Because of this, today we can affirm that Caterham is fully determined to build the Elise as the third model in its range.

Without a doubt, the baton is now in Lotus’s hands, and everything will depend on what the brand wants to do with this platform. What will happen in the end? Well, as you well know, everything depends on time and, above all, on the current economic needs of Lotus.

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