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Long time gone: Part 2 of 2; THE HARD-CORE ENTHUSIAST'S DREAM CAR HAS ARRIVED. HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL CARE ENOUGH TO BUY ONE?(News)
Byline: J.P. VETTRAINO
FEDERALIZATION
Group Lotus directors approved Elise for U.S. sale in November 2002, six years after its launch in Europe. Roger Becker and his staff in Hethel immediately went to work on the car, which had evolved into the Elise Mark II. By November 2003 they were driving U.S.-spec prototypes.
Becker is chief development engineer for Lotus Cars. He joined the company in 1966 and met Chapman shortly thereafter, when Chapman handed Becker keys to a Europa prototype and rather curtly demanded small changes in the location of the pedals. Chapman's intuitive grasp of "correctness'' and his insistence on appropriate ...
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