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Paul Elio told everyone that he had extensive plans on private funding and beginning production in June 2014. We all know how well that turned out. So, I assume that that the plans for service and distribution are to be believed also? Honestly, what can you believe? Back on topic, can Elio...

"Signing up with Pep Boys for service makes up for the lack of a dealership network on the service side and replacement parts shouldn't be an issue." That brings up a good point. What happens if you don't live close to a Pep Boys. For example, St. Louis has no Pep Boys and the closest ones are...

The car business is different because you have lots of expenses that have nothing to do with building the car. In addition to that, you need a national network to be able to sell them and the way Elio is intending to do it (not franchising dealers), that just adds into their costs. As for Tesla...

In the world of manufacturing, North American Content is considered NAFTA countries. So, you could source all of your parts in Mexico and hit 100% North American content. Many people think that North American means, American but not according to the US Government. I always though that the 90% NA...

A few other things to consider. 1. Startup costs for the first year are much higher as opposed to the running costs. So, Elio has never built a car before, thus there's no way that they will get it right for a while (existing car companies had a hard enough time with this, let alone a new one)...

Elio has been a great PR firm up until the last few months. If they were not a great PR firm, then they would have never got all of those reservations. You can get a few people behind you if you have a great idea, but to get tens of thousands to do that, it takes a good PR machine.

Paul is the front man, thus he's the one that takes the heat when things don't go right but will get all of the accolades when they do. That's just the way it is when you are the CEO. You are essentially leading the team.

We could just speculate as to when we get a man on Mars. Then we could talk about poo potatoes.

My wife learned to drive a stick on the 1982 Rabbit Diesel I got her when we were dating. I gave it to her (because her Ford Escort took a dump) and in two days, she was driving around without a problem. No instruction needed. She figured it out. I still have a Jetta TDI today and it's my beater...

With all of the delays, mention of the ATVM loan and obvious funding issues, people were reading between the lines that 65K was a number that would mean some major great news was going to happen. At this point, it looks like it was a internal goal for Elio.

I got a 1980 Rabbit pickup Diesel for free in 1985. It had a broken a timing belt and that pretty much destroys the engine. I bought a complete brand new VW industrial engine from some place that advertised in Autoweek (remember when they had a huge classified ad section). It showed up for $1K...

Good letter. That's what they need to hear. Just the next Momentum with your letter and a response will go a long way for existing and future customers.

The Native American Tribes will invest with non tribal members. It's done all of the time. Case in point, just Google Scott Tucker. He had a pretty good thing for the Miami Tribe in Oklahoma. All of those online payday loans that you see advertised on TV were funneled through that tribe and...

There has been plenty of info released since February 19, 2016 (The day they went IPO). Elio issued 31 press releases since the IPO. Last press release was February 3, 2017 (6 weeks ago). That doesn't cover things like Paul on some CNBC or Cheddar show (I can't remember which one) and informing...

How many people are employed by Elio full time? It's not uncommon for smaller companies and start ups to have everyone chip in at the beginning but you sure can't expect Betty from Accounting or Joe from HR to be the ones you want out doing anything but their job. I've worked with companies that...

You have to remember, many Elio owners live in areas that get plenty of snow. So, you have to make sure they have a car that can work for them. With that being said, I had an old VW Beetle that has 135 tires on it and then a VW Rabbit that had 155's on it. The Rabbit was 1800 lbs and FWD. Back...

Chinese already have a distribution and parts network in the US. It's called Volvo Automotive. No reason why Geeley couldn't just build their own Elio without buying anything from Elio. All Geeley would have to do is just use the existing Volvo network and introduce a new brand (i.e. Mini...

I don;t think you'll see major investor sell out but you will see a bunch of small sell outs happen if it gets to the $6.00 mark. I hope I'm wrong though.

It got lost in the mail.

Fundamental changes in the nature of the business could mean: -Producing hats instead of cars -Starting up a new dot com -Opening an Italian restaurant How much work you are doing today as compared to a year ago is subjective, so it doesn't really count. Maybe the reason for publishing things...