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Originally Posted by Bender Rodríguez

I understand the extra weight with add ons that come with features, I was only hoping to quantify the weight amount that comes with US standards for safety. Personally if that number is in excess of 50 lbs you can have it in my opinion, I don’t feel the US roads and drivers are any more of a danger to me (I could be wrong though). Having worked with some vehicle impacts and regulations it’s my opinion that a lot of US law if driven by emotion and ridiculous lawsuits. Heck I’m not even sure the Elise meets all safety standards if I remember looking up something I thought I saw a petition that lotus filed due to economic hardship the elise did not meet all of 201a or 201u specs, I’ld have to look it up again. Bu to your point 2000 lbs is quite impressive for what it does achieve. I know there are a couple of extremely light cars out there and I’m curious how they did it. [/font][/size]

It is unfortunate that your opinion was not considered during the design/engineering of the cars.

They do meet all safety requirements. They pass the crash tests. There was an exemption for not meeting the 2.5mph bumber requirements and another for not meeting the head light pattern requirements. Neither of those things are likely to have much impact on occupant safety though.

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