Subj: Re: [ZR2] 4-door zr2
Date: 9/28/99 6:10:58 PM Central Daylight Time
From: RAY.FILLION@prodigy.net (RAYMOND FILLION)
Reply-to: zr2@palmtop.net
To: zr2@palmtop.net

On a side note,knowing someone working for DOT, I believe there is a
category of vehicles that the S10 4 door falls into that keeps it from being
crash tested due to volume and the nature of its assembly being like a
"kit". Being assembled by centurion custom, not GM.
-----Original Message-----
From: John (Andy) Pickler
To: zr2@palmtop.net
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ZR2] 4-door zr2


>As a GM employee I know that to be legally produced for sale in the U.S.
the
>four-door S-10 (and any vehicle) must prove through official testing that
it
>meets the safety and emission requirements of the U.S. government. That is
an
>expensive proposition for any product. I would be interested to know if
there
>is truly an importer who can obtain a U.S.-legal four-door S-10. Up until
now
>I have only heard GM officially say that because of the low volume that
they
>would expect out of a four-door U.S. S-10 they do not currently offer such
a
>model. However, down in Brazil there is a significant enough market for
that
>vehicle (plus there are fewer requirements, which makes the development of
any
>model a less expensive proposition). I suspect that if any four-door
S-10's
>are in the U.S. they are either illegal (did not pass through the testing)
or
>are custom modifications.
>
>Andy Pickler
>
>Bigkid750@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I thought I recently saw in some 4x4 mag. (don't know which one) the ZR4
is
>> built in Brazil and imported into U.S.
>>