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Good find but it's not nearly double the performance and that motor is made in China. So, for what Elio has spec'd out, that would not work for the North American Content and with the trade war with China, could make the Elio go beyond the $7450 MSRP. If I was running Elio, I'd choose that...

It was. Obviously people didn't read the previous part of the conversation to understand it.

Hopefully it's not a Ford Ecoboost They are not reliable.

There's the Maglev trains and who knows what is going on under the seat. I took the Shanghai Maglev twice last year. I only did it because it was on my bucket list (there are much cheaper ways to get around). With it being in China and Maglev, I seriously doubt they care if it fries peoples nuts.

Probably because of Roush and their long standing relationship with Ford. Roush makes a whole line of performance parts for the Mustang and F150. Roush has always raced Fords even way back when he had the Maverick in NHRA and still does today with him racing in NASCAR and IMSA (Jack Jr races a...

then we now know. No Ecoboost for the Elio because they are unreliable. What Fortune 500 Engine are they going to use then since we can't have a Ford?

I wish Elio would update the configurator. People that will be buying these will want to have all of their options picked out and it seems that Elio has stuck with the same thing for a while. I know that getting this thing going is a priority but just having that up to date would take 10 minutes...

It sounds like it's just what you read on the forums and there's no real idea as to why. Sounds like an opinion as opposed to what it really happening. This leads me to the next paragraph. Forums are the worst place to determine if it's a reliable vehicle. People rarely post about the greatness...

To make a 2 stroke, rotary and diesel emissions compliant, it has become way to complex and expensive to accomplish that. That's why a current diesel is way more complex than a gasser and the last rotary sold in the US was overly complex too. That explains why the 2 stroke is fining itself being...

What is so unreliable about the Ecoboost as opposed to other engines? We had a conversation here a while back about pickups and I brought up someone that owns two of them for his business and they have turned out to be extremely reliable. I friend of mine works at a Ford dealer as a mechanic and...

Ecoboost is a trademark that stands for Direct injection and a Turbo. Same thing every other car company does. They just call it something different (i.e. VW TSI). If you are going to buy a mainstream car, it's got Ecoboost on it. A Honda is Ecoboost but Ford has the trademark on the name so...

You have to think packaging. There's a reason why we don't put V-Twins in cars. It's going to have to be either a 2-4 cylinder inline engine. If it's from a top OEM then it'll be a 4 valve, direct injection, variable cam timing and an optional turbo. There's a reason why we don't use a 1992 Geo...

I suggest looking into what people do with the Can-Am. If you go to Quebec, you'll see lots of people towing trailers with them. If that thing can tow a trailer (some pretty cool ones for camping) the Elio would be able to do it without a problem.

Watch this video and let me know what you think (it's from January 3, 2013): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WmvbwXDX4w&t=8m34s Also, just watch the last 10-15 seconds of this: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/12/27/elio-motors-reinvents-the-car.html

Not even 1000 shares traded. Looks like we are doing the stock manipulation scheme again. Trade a few hundred to bump up the number. What we need is to see something in the range of 20K. There should be movement because Eliocoin being issued and Ford supplying the powertrain, saving the company...

You can thank Byrne for this. I guarantee you that he didn't understand why Elio needed to spend $125M and have a long timeline when it wasn't necessary. I bet Elio and Byrne were in a meeting and it went like this: B - Can we just buy a motor from someone else? E - We could but we already...

I never realized that there are thousands of Arcimotos out there and they will be going through the winter season in areas like where I live. Good to see how the work out in those sub zero temperatures and 6+ inches of snow. Then spring when we have pothole filled roads. Good R&D for Elio as...

From what Elio motors is telling us, the car will not be Kiss. It started off that way but it's getting more and more packed with technology. I do hope that Elio will provide software and a WiFi tool that we can modify the electronic systems to our liking. Pretty much the same than that VCDS is...

You do realize that the Arcimoto is not going to be seeing the mileage and all weather conditions that the Elio will see. Show me people that are cranking out 20K per year in all 4 seasons (where places get all 4 seasons) and I'll be a believer.

I was waiting for someone to bring that up. My brother owns one. he bought it new back in 1997. It's purple and I think there's only like 500 of them. Anyway, it's on it's 4th set of front fenders. Set 1 - Lasted 800 miles. LF cracked and fell off. Both replaced under warranty (redesign) Set 2...