In the reservation agreement, it says under Item 2, second sentence: “This Agreement does not constitute an agreement for the sale of a vehicle and does not lock in pricing, a production slot, or an estimated delivery date.”
It says the production slot is not locked in. Yet we have a ‘spot in line’. Are they different? I believe they are. A production slot sounds like what we are thinking of: the order in which they are manufactured. A spot in line is where we appear in a line of names on a piece of paper, and these are two different things. I believe EM will try to make them coincide if possible but I also believe they may take great liberty.
The easiest and best for them is to start providing vehicles for people in the local Shreveport area. When vehicles break down, they can be easily taken to the plant where the engineers can find out what happened. (I firmly believe engineers will be at the manufacturing facility.) It is very important for engineers to get their hands on the actual item that failed so they can evaluate and make design changes if needed. Let me reemphasize how important this is. If vehicle failures were keep occuring, they may go all the way down to the ‘Want in for $100’ before they start shipping vehicles greater distances from the plant. This makes sense. Then they may ship them to reservationists who are a little farther from Shreveport but close to a Pep Boys with a certified Elio mechanic. Somewhere along this process, they may switch to following the ‘spot in line’ list, after it appears the bugs have been worked out.
How do I feel about this? I applaud it. I would rather wait a little longer and receive a vehicle with the bugs worked out than to receive one earlier with the bugs still in it (I want a thorough fumigation to get all those bug out.) I believe EM wants to follow the spot in line list but may deviate from it in the early days.
P S The reservation agreement is easier to read if you copy it, paste it in a document, than print the document.
It says the production slot is not locked in. Yet we have a ‘spot in line’. Are they different? I believe they are. A production slot sounds like what we are thinking of: the order in which they are manufactured. A spot in line is where we appear in a line of names on a piece of paper, and these are two different things. I believe EM will try to make them coincide if possible but I also believe they may take great liberty.
The easiest and best for them is to start providing vehicles for people in the local Shreveport area. When vehicles break down, they can be easily taken to the plant where the engineers can find out what happened. (I firmly believe engineers will be at the manufacturing facility.) It is very important for engineers to get their hands on the actual item that failed so they can evaluate and make design changes if needed. Let me reemphasize how important this is. If vehicle failures were keep occuring, they may go all the way down to the ‘Want in for $100’ before they start shipping vehicles greater distances from the plant. This makes sense. Then they may ship them to reservationists who are a little farther from Shreveport but close to a Pep Boys with a certified Elio mechanic. Somewhere along this process, they may switch to following the ‘spot in line’ list, after it appears the bugs have been worked out.
How do I feel about this? I applaud it. I would rather wait a little longer and receive a vehicle with the bugs worked out than to receive one earlier with the bugs still in it (I want a thorough fumigation to get all those bug out.) I believe EM wants to follow the spot in line list but may deviate from it in the early days.
P S The reservation agreement is easier to read if you copy it, paste it in a document, than print the document.
