why exactly are all the Elises for track use only? Is there any way around this? What's the deal?

-Steve

 

I didn't know the Elise is for track only...


Are you sure you're not thinking of the Exige?

 

yes. i am not talking about the USDM version set to come here in a few months, i'm talking about all the Elises currently available...

-Steve

 

Probably because it wouldn't meet some stupid US legal qualification for road use, like lack of bumpers (random suggestion) or some other bs like that

 

I would think the safety thing and the emissions.... I think that engine is not emission compliant.

Can you get around it??? - I think some people have titled their's as "kitcars", but that is one of those things if you have the $ to burn, go for it.... I think in florida they just recently impounded a bunch of "illegal" elise's that someone was bringing here on a temporary permit, then selling.

 

Doesn't meet crash testing, doesn't meet safety requirements and doesn't meet emmisions.

Basically - nothing on the car meets US standards.

 

There was a company called Sun International importing them with an Integra Type R engine in it and they were street legal. I raced an Elise(not legal) on the track and it was incredibly fast. I couldn't go through the corners nearly as fast as he could.

 

From what I know of them - the Sun cars were not street legal.

FYI

 

i second this. i have never heard of a street legal elise barring some sort of very sketchy circumstances.

-Steve

 

i for one am glad that it has to meet standards to be allowed on the streets.....these regulations are what are saving lives.....imagine a 1500 lb car with no bracing or airbags.....the first accident would almost certainly be the last. if the weight got one miligram over 2000, I would have a fit......it can certainly be done. It would also be able to have the needed equipment to save the occupant's lives.