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Re: Lotus

To: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Lotus
From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@harlie.idsfa.net>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:30:24 -0700
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:05:01PM -0400, John F. Kelly Jr. wrote:

> I don't think a car from Lotus Cars USA, Inc. can be called a "Gray Market"
> car.

The Esprit certainly is not.  However, the Elise and its variants sold
by Lotus can only be registered for the street by dodging around the
laws.  I guess that is what Scot probably meant.  

You can buy the car, but not drive it on the street.  That puts it in
the same category as a kart or formula car, with the disadvantage that
the design involves compromises for street use.

I am looking forward to the arrival of the Federalized next-generation
Elise, but that day is not yet here.

The Caterham web site is at http://www.caterham.co.uk/  Many
interesting variants, and many *are* street registerable in the US.
See http://www.uscaterham.com/ for information about those.

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john@idsfa.net                                              John Stimson
http://www.idsfa.net/~john/                              HMC Physics '94

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