Tops there will only be about 2,400 - 2,500 Elise's for the U.S market for this model year. They havent hit the shores yet to customers but some are at the ports. The whole total is sold out and accounted for the entire year. Keep in minds its also a hand built car.

 

No suprise that Corvette outsells the Boxster considering the fact that there are about 3,000 us Chevy dealers selling around 33,000 vettes annually. Porsche which has less than 200! us dealers still is able to sell 11,000-12,000 Boxsters annually. Now imagine how well a mid-engine would do if it had a distribution network of 2500-3000 dealers like Pontiac or Chevy.

An underpowered mid-engine is only desireable if you can swap in a bigger motor. True with fiero, havent heard it done with mr spyder.

Road and Track in the August issue says 2200 Elise's will imported here this year. Some people may say that is an insignificant number- not when you consider Lotus has only 38 US dealerships. Breaking the numbers down futher this amounts to an average of 58 elise's sold per dealership yearly compared to
Chevy's avg of 11 Corvette's sold per dealership yearly. Porsche's numbers would be around 60 Boxsters per dealership annually.

Like Jerry mentioned VW may have a car to fill the void soon (Concept R- 300hp est price 30k). VW may get a lot of fiero owners business. The mr2 sales in us are indeed around 5000 annually.