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- From: mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (Earwax)
- Subject: Re: highly desirable cars not sold in the US (was INFFINITI vs BMW
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.074140.26743@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:41:40 GMT
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- Paul Hagger (hagger@cs.umd.edu) wrote:
- :
- :
- : The company is called "Sevens & Elans" and is located near Boston.
- : The address (or at least a phone number) can be found in any issue
- : of Hemmings Motor News at the End of the Lotus section
- : (see "L cars for sale").
-
- Also if you look through the alt.tv.prisoner the address is listed in
- the FAQ I'll go looking for it later.
-
- :
- : There is a long article reviewing the new Caterham 7 HPC (High
- : Performance Course -- required before Caterham will sell you one in
- : England) in the December 1991 issue of Sports Car International.
- : The article lists the address of "Sevens & Elans".
- :
- : Prices for the car are around $20k, sans engine.
- :
- : Engine choices run from ~$3000 - ~$10,000 depending on power
- : ($10k gets you about 200hp, making the 7 faster than almost anything
- : this side of an F40 to get to 60mph).
- :
- : -hagger
- Just a note, althought the car may be fast, it supposedly has
- few other redeeming qualities. I was told by someone who knew someone
- who owned one that it handled terribly, but this is not the HPC
- perhaps that one is different. Maybe just how fast a car can go is not
- enough, how fast it can be driven by a sane human being is also
- important (read Testarossa).
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