The 'price perception' is quite interesting.

I'm from the 'just tell me the bottom line' school of thought rather than the 'headline trick' school of thought. I hate responding to offers of 'price x' only to find tax ... labor ... are missing and the goods won't work unless I upgrade my something or other with another something or other ... and 'price x' suddenly becomes 'price y'. Hence, target prices are TOTAL prices.

At US$7,300 a 6-speed ZeroShift box sounds a whole lot better than UK£7,500 converting at 1.80 $/£ to US$13,500. But that nice US$7,300 has labor missing and then min 6% sales tax on the total. Frankly, I guess the total installed priced with a normalised sterling/dollar ratio and/or Stateside manufacture will end up around US$10,000 for the T56 by the time it reaches you. The T5 about 30% less. The Scooby 6-speed kit somewhere in between.

By the way, don't go thinking I'm alone here... I know it's pretty irregular for the the CEO of an auto company to talk to Internet Forums but I am a petrolhead/racer and you guys are potential customers - it just feels like shooting the breeze over a beer (at the moment!) or a coffee.

With regard to future reliability, I cannot understate the calibre of the ZeroShift engineering team. After getting the invention working, we attracted some of the world's most accomplished transmission engineers. One of our guys was responsible for making a WRC box that even Colin McRae couldn't break. All of our design engineering team have been responsible, in varying degrees, for championship-winning or class-leading transmissions. Few other companies in the world match this team's depth and breadth of knowledge.

Anyway, back to your Yugo. Tub it and load a crate motor then you can hook up one of our T56's... You've got maybe a year to prepare... Get to it! D