Cheers David, never knew that, Interesting stuff.  I even looked it up after you told me that.

Just been reading the Wiki and it's not as bad as it sounds, it's still British in essence, and is still headquartered in Norfolk, England, and is made here.
Where all the money comes from, that's just a technicality cause it's 'Lotus' that makes a Lotus a Lotus, not money - although money helps it happen :-P

But yup, according to the Wiki, even you Americans have a piece of Lotus now, and I think that is rather naughty of you and you should stick to your own cars instead of trying to get at our performance-handling secrets, you dirty spies!