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My Elio Alternate Project Is Underway.
- Thread starter Mark BEX
- Start date
JohnJ
Elio Addict
This might be jumping the gun a little, but it's starting to look like a real car. I can't help but wonder, if you have started to plan out the interior? Any ideas about the seats, dash, panels etc....?
It's a bit difficult to explain it, various pictures and concepts in my mind, but it will be simple and sparse.
What is a priority to me is storage bucket space to the immediate right of the driver, and left of the passenger, not just for convenience to put shopping bags and other stuff in, but to keep that extra load weight forward to keep the vehicle as stable as possible.
The driver seat i hope to find a wide, well supported OEM that can be jacked up and down, that not all cars have. I also don't like the ones that do jack up and down, but tilt forward as they jack up (the lower squab). Jacking is a big help to accommodate tall and not so tall people.
Rear seat, the squab at least, is a part of the car, likely molded fiberglass and likely part of a one or 2 piece floor.
84mpg
Elio Addict
do you foresee having a small trunk area with some type hatchback type door for a storage area behind the rear seat ?
DikiJ
Elio Addict
The million dollars must be for a tank of gas.
JohnJ
Elio Addict
As with the Elio, trunk space is a major concern to me... and I'm sure others. What good is super gas mileage if it's home in the garage because there's no room to carry your groceries home from the store?
You may have missed my previous posts. At no time did I say there wouldn't be rear capacity as well.
I am aiming for the right hand side of the driver to be a very large storage capacity, as well as the left side of the rear passenger to a lesser degree (because the car tapers inwards). This is to keep the weight forward as often as possible for improved stability.
Previous post somewhere:
If you can imagine it, the red boxes are available area with rear passenger, blue box additional area with no passenger (golf clubs, fishing poles, rigid dead bodies etc), and large yellow pockets to the right of driver, and left of rear passenger.
That's the general idea, but always more complicated.
The red box to the right of the rear wheel will likely have to be move'able or removable for tire changes for example.
The red box above the wheel won't be very deep because of wheel travel upwards.
I would like to make the yellow pockets as large as possible to encourage people to keep weight forward for stability.
Rear weight is why I imagined a trailer rather than luggage rack or other sprung carriage that was discussed here (pre BEX), single wheel in trail of rear wheel, very light with little tongue weight.
You sure do good work.