{"id":687,"date":"2026-05-12T11:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:39:57","slug":"lotus-boss-calls-for-uk-government-support-as-it-commits-to-norfolk-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Lotus boss calls for UK government support as it commits to Norfolk plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports carmaker extends lifespan of petrol-engined Emira, made in Norfolk, to continue to cater for US market<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/12\/uk-bond-yields-borrowing-costs-pound-falls-oil-inflation-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The boss of the luxury sports carmaker Lotus has called for government support for its UK factory as the Chinese-owned company insisted it will not abandon its British roots.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus said it had extended the lifespan of the \u00a380,000 Emira petrol-engined sports car, made by 900 employees in its factory in Norfolk, in order for the brand to continue to serve the US market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/12\/lotus-uk-government-norfolk-plant-car-firm-emira-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports carmaker extends lifespan of petrol-engined Emira, made in Norfolk, to continue to cater for US market Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}