I am afraid you are wrong about the Lotus and fooling yourself about the Delorean... The Lotus also uses many standard engine and transmission parts... not to mention just about everything else... low volume cars cannot justify everything being custom designed parts. As you see with the Porsche/Audi Volkswagen and to a greater extent maybe Delorean and Renault the Lotus Renault relationship was also strong as well as with many other UK car manufacturers... With any exotic you just need to know where to look for the parts you need. Delorean maintenance is not cheap as evidenced by the number of truely horrid examples out there... Aaron Windsor, Onatrio --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxx> wrote: > Johnny, > > Thank you for the response. Now, how much of this is really accurate? > I confess: I read this info at the Lotus Fact File a couple of months ago. In my quest for a new car I've been back and forth between > several vehicles and the Esprit is one of them. I decided against it due to parts pricing To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/