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 uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,chico,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!teklabs!tekid!jm CSnet: tekid!jm@tek ARPA: tekid!jm.tek@rand-relay