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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