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Old 02-05-2011, 12:28 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
Where did the $50,000 figure come from? when the L1 prototype was built they were saying that they could build it for around $17,000 if there was only a market for a car like that.
I pulled it out of thin air, figuring that the Lotus Elise at ~$40K has some similar construction, and the limited production run of the 1L would bump the price by a chunk.

And mostly hoping that it wouldn't cost that much.

-soD

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