Funny you should ask- I just got off the phone with my salesperson (at Criswell in MD) and he said they had a conference call yesterday (I assumed with Lotus England) and said that they said that they're shipping us the cars at the end of this month and that it usually takes about 2 weeks to get here, but could take as long as 4 weeks. Either way, sounds like I will be driving my Elise within 6 weeks!
He also mentioned that they are supposed to be getting 10 cars in the first shippment and one of them will be the demo car. So I just made it in on that shippment (I'm #7).