[s-cars] Re: S-CAR-List digest, Vol 1 #1880 - Leg Length (was Lotus Elise at St ealership)

[l.leung at juno.com]

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:39:43 +0200
From: "Keith Maddock" <Keith.Maddock at TRW.COM>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>, <Frederic.L'Huillier at Siebel.com>
Subject: RE: [s-cars] NAC-lotus Elise at stealership

Frederic, interesting you mention that..

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If only someone would come up with a diet to shorted your legs, I'd be a ve=
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ry happy man.


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The Rotus (once the Toy engine is installed!) sounds awfully sweet, in
any guise. Road and Track (stateside) tested the car, and pronounced it the=
 "purest sports car availible, bar none", and that's with the roughly
150 HP Rover engine. Weight apparently will not change much by adding
the Toyota engine, transaxle, and US luxo needy features.

As for the shortened leg diet, I don't have that problem. In fact, in
my type 44, I have the seat ALL the way up. AND, when I looked at a 1.7 lit=
er Lotus Europa, WAY back, I wanted the leg extension diet, I couldn't oper=
ate the pedals at all. It figured, when Colin Chapman (as I recall, he was =
over 6 ft) was alive, all the cars fit him. Now that he's gone, we have Eli=
ses meant for people of my stature (US 5ft 5 in, 167 cm for the world major=
ity). Yeah me (yeah, right, like I can afford one!).

LL - NY