In July 2012 the price for a user licence of Lotus SmartSuite 9. 8 was US -$ 342. 00 when purchased directly through the IBM website.

Hill became the fourth driver in nine years to win the World Drivers ' Championship and not drive for Williams the following season following in the footsteps of Nelson Piquet ( WDC-drove for Lotus ), Nigel Mansell ( WDC-1993 competed in the US based Champ Car World Series instead of F1 ) and Alain Prost ( 1993 WDC-Retired ).

Under an agreement with the US government, Lotus was allowed to start exporting 64 bit keys, so long as 24 bits of each key were recoverable using a special key issued by Lotus to the NSA.

( US export regulations were changed in 2001, so current versions of Lotus products are able to use longer keys and they no longer provide NSA with access to any key bits.

The 111S models were discontinued in 2005 in favour of the Toyota powerplant ( see below ), mainly due to Lotus plans to introduce the Elise to the US market, which needed the engine to comply with the emission regulations in USA, which was not the case for the K-series Engine as MG Rover did not sell cars in the US.

Lotus made a limited edition ( 50 in the US ) version of the Lotus Elise as well, called the Lotus Sport Elise.

File: Lotus Elise at Indy Concours. jpg | US " Federal Elise " configuration of a standard Lotus Elise S2 on display in Indianapolis

File: 2011 Lotus Elise SC -- 2012 DC. JPG | 2011 Lotus Elise SC ( US )

* Lotus USA US distributor

* The British Racing Motors ( BRM ) H-16 Formula One engine won the 1966 US Grand Prix with Jim Clark in a Lotus 43.

In the ' 60s, the original Lotus Seven was sold only in kit form in both the UK and the US, in order to evade the very high taxes on complete new cars that were not assessed on automobile parts.

After two seasons away from the sport, Schumacher's experience made him a target for new teams US F1, Hispania ( HRT ), Virgin and Lotus for 2010, all of whom he rejected ..

At the launch of the Lotus T127, Trulli admitted in an interview with Autosport that US F1 and Sauber had been in contact with him.

Lotus also took up the H16 as an interim measure until the Cosworth DFV was ready, building the Lotus 43 to house it, and Jim Clark managed to win the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen with this combination.

The author / publisher contractual relationship between Iris Associates and Lotus Development continued until 1994, when Iris was purchased by Lotus for approximately US $ 84 million.

Only a year later, in the face of the rapid decline of its desktop business, Lotus itself was purchased by IBM for approximately US $ 3. 5 billion.

Approval for the Elise, however, required intervention by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) who provided a three-year exemption for the car, as it had failed to meet US bumper and headlight regulations.

* Elise Ravenel Wood du Pont ( 1954 )-former First Lady of Delaware and 1984 Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives

* Elise Ackerman, " The Latest Buzz on Hemp: U. S. farmers want the ban on cultivating the plant lifted ", US News and World Report, March 15, 1999.

The new Exige has the same V6 as the Evora and is not available in US as a road legal vehicle.

The US Federalized version with the supercharger fitted is known as the Exige S 240.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the median wage for commercial and print models was only $ 11. 22 per hour in 2006.

Large submarines ( for example, Echo and Oscar classes ) were developed to carry these weapons and shadow US battle groups at sea, and large bombers ( for example, Backfire, Bear, and Blackjack models ) were equipped with the weapons in their air-launched cruise missile ( ALCM ) configuration.

Some models were manufactured with NTSC video for the US market.

Some other types of intellectual property rights are also referred to as patents in some jurisdictions: industrial design rights are called design patents in the US, plant breeders ' rights are sometimes called plant patents, and utility models and Gebrauchsmuster are sometimes called petty patents or innovation patents.

Mid-19th-century " Brady stand " photo model's armrest table, meant to keep portrait models more still during long exposure times ( studio equipment nicknamed after the famed US photographer, Mathew Brady ).

Porsche upgraded the engine from mechanical to electronic fuel injection in 1980 for US models, although power remained the same.

S4 was much closer to being a truly world car than previous models as only major differences between ROW and US models were instrumentation in either kilometers or miles, lighting, front and rear bumper shocks and the availability of catalytic converters in many ROW markets.

Loaded GTS models could eclipse US $ 100, 000 in 1995, making them among the most expensive cars on the road at the time.

**" S " brakes available in US models.

No US models made with VIN ending between 0938 and 1000 due to parts change.

** Check engine warning light added to all US models due to California regulatory demands.

These cars use same parts as 1992 models and can be differentiated from true 1993 US models with separate VIN sequence and option code M718.

** First 19 US models were made already in spring of 1993, months before when normal model year change occurs in July / August.

In the US these models are usually purchased in epoxy or wood kits and some as brass models.

There were only two conditions to acquire a lot: 1-a token tax of 5 shillings ( 5 sols ) per arpent of land should be paid every year ($ 0. 03 per per year in 2005 US dollars ); 2-a house should be built on the lot according to the plans and models established by the Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi ( architect in chief of the royal demesne ).

By the end of World War Two, the US had built eight new wind tunnels, including the largest one in the world at Moffett Field near Sunnyvale, California, which was designed to test full size aircraft at speeds of less than 250 mph and a vertical wind tunnel at Wright Field, Ohio, where the wind stream is upwards for the testing of models in spin situations and the concepts and engineering designs for the first primitive helicopters flown in the US.

The median wage for commercial and print models was only $ 11. 22 per hour in 2006 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Replacement motors are still available from Hoover US for some models.

Larger models, which can store over 200 litres ( 53 US gallons ), are often hooked up to compressed air, utilizing the Venturi effect to produce a partial vacuum.

Because many automatic belt system designs compliant with the US passive-restraint mandate did not meet the safety performance requirements of Canada — which were not weakened to accommodate automatic belts — vehicle models which had been eligible for easy importation in either direction across the US-Canada border when equipped with manual belts became ineligible for importation in either direction once the US variants got automatic belts and the Canadian versions retained manual belts.