Ditto for me - only choice was $1500. All the previous discussions over the past few years have mentioned $500-$800 range. I marked "Yes" only because I have no choice and a manual transmission is not an option in my family. $1500 is 22% of the cost of the Elio and is way out of line. Guess this is management's way of recouping their original discounts for those of us who went "all in". Also, I hate surveys like this one that uses the Delphi technique to achieve the answers they want rather than what the respondent really wants to say. Really disappointing that Elio would jack up the price that high.I only had one option of $1500. I assumed if I said no that it meant that I would get a manual. So I said yes, even though I really don't want to pay that much. I guess now after reading through other posts if I had said no I might have been given other prices as options? I wonder how EM will interpret the survey? Us older guys will pay more for an automatic? I don't mind paying $1000, I think that is about the going rate with other auto manufacturers..