From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!tekid!jm
Newsgroups: net.auto
Title: Re: Most Powerful Street Legal Car in US?
Article-I.D.: tekid.976
Posted: Fri Mar  4 08:40:30 1983
Received: Fri Mar 11 06:50:45 1983


Remember that some of the cars on Dave Newkirks list are not
just "hard to find", but are in fact not importable to the US 
without MAJOR MODIFICATIONS.  For instance, if you somehow 
manage to smuggle a Countach or a Boxer into the US without going
through the 'normal' channels, the EPA and the NHTSA will
find you and take your car and fine you to boot.  The experience
of temporarily owning a Countach can cost you $250,000. (see
related article in Car and Driver several years ago).

The modifications requited by our all-knowing, all-seeing
government (coff, coff) are 5 mph bumpers, smog devices, different
head and tail lights, wheels and tires, etc, etc.  There is
a company in NJ (attention Bell Labs types...) that will get you
a Boxer (or whatever) and bring it up to US specs.  For A Price.
A Big Price.  

Many big ticket exoticars aren't imported  because of the CAFE
(Corporate Average Fuel Economy) requirements that it would
make the maker subject to (even though they could meet the
bumper/smog requirements fairly easily.

Turbines,

	Jeff Mizener
	Tektronix, ADG
	Beaverton, OR

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