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In order to be run freely on US railroads, any european train design would hace to be extensively redesinged to meet american standards. From the very begining, Amtrak asked for a tilting train, so that's why (despite being slower) the X2000 was considered a candidate, and the ICE builders contacted Fiat for a tilting system. Although Bombardier/Alstom built the TGV and made sure everyone knew that, they had never built a tilting train, they didn't have a tilting system and they didn't test a train in the US by the time they started building the Acela. But they offered far better financing, and that was very important for a tight-budget agency. By the way, there is currently a tilting ICE in Germany. It is just 7 mph slower than the Acela, but the point is: the Acela is not a bad concept itself (germans did the same thing because they don't have the money to build lots of new high speed lines) but a bad developement. Now it all depends on the attorneys
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