How does Snyder deliver a 3 wheeled ,70 MPG, $8000 vehicle with 5 doors and reasonably equipped ....... and Elio can't ?
Granted , the Elio is slicker but metrics should be similar .
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I fully understand the original poster was just putting out a little information but he got me to thinking so I looked into the car's horsepower and found a 0-60 site that calculates projected times based on horsepower and weight... It was too much fun to go through iterations that I had to post the following.
OOO, OOO... I know this one!
If you count 200 lbs of driver, etc,
Look at how the speedy little car stacks up. 0-60 in 22.7 seconds? Would you want to merge on a freeway at that slowness? It takes a full 1/4 mile to get to 60.76 MPH.
Oh, did you have a friend coming? (400 lbs for driver, passenger, fuel, etc.)
How about a couple of light friends (150lb each)... it's a 5 door, right? (400 lbs for driver and passenger 1, 150lbs each for passengers 2 and 3.)
So now, you can speed right up to 55.90 MPH by the end of a 1/4 mile long on ramp and it will only take you 31.6 seconds to get there.
Elio, with it's modest 55HP and, using the first example above,
I'm guessing they traded off any kind of performance to get all those doors and mileage. That car doesn't seem safe at all for Highway use. But, that's just my 2 cents. I can tell you, I wouldn't like spending half a minute behind one just trying to get up to highway speeds... heaven forbid if it were a hill...