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It's no secret that Lotus is owned by Proton, and that the Malaysian car maker occasionally lets the Norfolk company loose to sort out the handling of its very ordinary hatchbacks. But now Proton has gone one further and produced a Lotus-badged version of its utterly unremarkable Satria Neo R3. Painted Lotus Racing Green with yellow stripes, it gets all the accoutrements of a naff special edition: alloy wheels, black bonnet and oodles of air vents. The weedy 1.6-litre engine has just 145bhp at its disposal. Luckily, only 25 examples were ever built.
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17/04/2012 19:22
17/04/2012 23:18
This critism of the Satria Neo is complete un-informed tosh! The Satria Neo has now won several ralies and currently leads the table. For the bargain buyer the basic model now retails just £8500 and is miles better and almost twice as cheap as anything in in class. Compare it to any other make and it comes out better looking, better equiped and also cheaper. Half the price of some so called top makes. It looks great, drives fun, and is simply unbeatable at this price. I changed from a 20k astra and the window winders were rubbish on the astra as were the indicators. The 20k astra had no remote boot release, no remote petrol cap release, no rear parking sensors, feable easily broken switches and was two and half times the price of the Satria Neo. Look at the prices of other cars yourself and try and find a sporty hatch with 1600 engine and all this equipment and you won't find anything like it.
17/04/2012 20:38
17/04/2012 23:23
That norwegian who killed all those people was only a nuttier in the same way we say adolph Hitler was, both knew exactly what they were doing but were fit for trial (if they had got hitler alive).
As this guy murdered in cold blood but he was in possession of all his faculties he cannot use insanity as an escape route.
I think for some murder cases it is better to allow the murderer to live long enough to regret their actions. In this case that guy could live to 100 but would still remain arrogant until the day he died therefore once convicted allow the relatives of those he murdered to decide his fate
( I do mean decide his fate not administer his execution)
I WOULD THROW HIM TO THE LIONS but then again I am old fashioned.
18/04/2012 14:56
To Davie Kerr.
We have no other place on MSN to express our sentiments and if you believe in free speech, you must practice it. The cars ARE crappy and inconsequential therefore not really worth comment, 77 innocent murders are not and worthy of strong opinion wherever you can express it.
Currently on the MSN home page you CAN submit a comment IF you are prepared to have it heavily censored or simply binned.
To smiggy 21.
I have long come to the conclusion that if two good, well meaning people come to different conclusions on one problem, it is probably because they are both working on different information.
In this case I think that it is our definition of the word "nutter".
History is FULL of organised nutters who (thought they) knew what they were doing. History has judged them wrong.
From Christian persecution in ancient Rome through Jewish persecution in N@zi Germany and Palestinian persecution in Zionist Israel to an apparently lone nutter like that creature, organization does not mean sanity.
Also that creature cold-bloodedly MURDERED 77 decent young lives and deserves to die 77 deaths, but it should not be the relatives who administer it, lest they are reduced to his level.
I would keep him alive in solitary confinement for A VERY LONG life and fed a constant diet of halal food and recordings of inter-faith festivals.
He CANNOT be allowed to go unpunished or escape with the brief punishment of death.
He and anyone else like him must learn that their insane actions will only tie us closer together.
Peace.
18/04/2012 15:01
17/04/2012 22:15
To Influencer Dev.
They tried letting us humans speak our mind on important stuff and we let them down by speaking our minds.
I have to say that I do not see MSN as scum, I see them as sheep bleating as much as their masters allow them to. If we are fed a diet of inconsequential's, we can only be shaped by that.
New Speak had the same idea, 1984 is alive and well, just lasting longer than that year.
Concerning the cars, there are some real ugly bugs here. I was going to call the contributor (Chris Rees) a snob, but seeing these design atrocities, I agree.
Peace.
18/04/2012 11:39
And, of the nine previous comments on this thread, why are there more about the Norwegian Nutter than there are about crappy cars? While I'm among the hundreds of people that would have him flogged with barbed-wire whips and then immersed in a brine bath, this is not the place to express such sentiments although I just did: "Do as I say, not as I do!"
17/04/2012 22:24
To Influencer Dev (again).
You don't HAVE to play their game you know. If you have something important to say, say it, irrespective of the article headline.
For instance that Norwegian nutter, killed all those kids in "self defence" and said that he had done a "good thing". An adult (?) his age who does not know the difference between right and wrong CANNOT be considered sane, though this should not stop the authorities from killing him like the mad dog he is.
Indeed in celebration I am going to invite the local Muslims around for a cup of tea.
Peace.
17/04/2012 19:33
18/05/2012 06:55
18/04/2012 11:33
The Austin Allegro "the lamest car ever made in Britain"? Sorry; I'd give that accolade to the Morris Marina, which wasn't too bad on a straight run but was absolutely USELESS on corners. When you think that it came out of the same stable that produced the legendary Morris Minor, Morris 1000 and MGB, you can see just how quickly the British motor industry went down the tubes!
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