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A friend of mine is a general manager at a Ford dealer, so I asked him what is the #1 selling Ford truck combo and price they sell. He told me it's the F150, XLT, 4 door, longbed, 4wd, 3.5l, towing package, some general option package and technology package. MSRP is around $55K. #2 selling truck...

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Brazil is not the best example. PetroBras is a scam that is literally to export oil for cash and then the government used the ethanol for the people in their own country (which turned out to be a disaster). In the end, it never worked. Thus why Brazil has a massive economic problem. It is truly...

It's like with the Smart Car. There were these pics of parking two of them in a parking spot. In the real world, that doesn't happen and it never happens in Europe. It made for a great PR piece in the US though. Then there's the Autolob that ended up going belly up in France. They made special...

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Did you notice they still don't fit. The standard width of a parking spot ranges from 7.5' - 9.0'. So that means, those FUVS are sticking out between 5" and 23" into the road (which in my reality, that means a parking ticket or your rear wheel could get wiped out). Also, a parking spot is 18'...

You can't realistically park 3 FUV's in a regular parking space. I know the PR shots show you can buy in the real world, it's two. Just like with the Smart, two in a spot is a great PR shot but not a reality shot. You might be able to pull it off in Paris but there's no way it would ever happen...

The FUV is 113" long and 65" wide. Smart car is 106.1" long and 65.5" wide. It looks like the Smart Car is smaller and thus should be the car of choice then and since 2008. So, I'm wondering how the FUV will change the current attitude that we have in America for Smart Car.

You bring up an excellent point. Elio has the Elio my way. So you can pick whatever you want on the car. If you want to buy the base model, it's no problem. As for other car companies, you have packages and the base model ends up being the hardest one to get because they make a handful of them...

I'm going to fix that for you. Americans and Europeans have no appetite for small cars. I suggest going to Europe a few times and you'll see that the crossovers along with small SUV's are taking off like crazy. The micro and small cars that we remember them driving all over the place 20 years...

How much mileage does an Elio get?

What you need to do is this. Search: "The Coolest Cooler Lawsuit" or "The Coolest Cooler Update". Just read this article and it shows that when you under price your backers model of a product, which end up being the first ones you ship, will run you out of money in a jiffy and you resort to...

You should build a Cobra Kit car. A guy down the street is doing that and it looks like it'll be fun when he gets done. He sold his Slingshot to build the Cobra.

A company I work with was looking into the ATVM loan program. They decided to not go for it just due to the frustration and them not handing one out for 7 years. As the owner put it, "I don't want to pay some lobbyist or consultant hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep the paperwork going...

You also need to remember that about 35% of those sales are fleet. So, those numbers wouldn't look so good if fleet went with something else. In the end, pickups went the route of the Suburban. They jazzed it all up and opened up the audience that buys them. If pickups were just like we had in...

Here's an update: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2019/02/15/braidy-industries-ashland-aluminum-mill-seeks-huge-federal-loan/2655892002/

Best thing to do is just read it. https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr2381/BILLS-115hr2381ih.pdf

While you got it apart, stitch weld the seams. That will stiffen it up so you don't have body flex down the road that shows in the panels.

Looks like the S4 UTE is coming along. How about making it RHD?

It's all sunk costs now. What matters is pretty simple, how much does Elio need, when will they get to production (which answers the revenue question) and when will they get to cash flow positive. If the answer to those three questions becomes something positive, then the rest is just...