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This won't work if you're counting on having that $3048.78 come off the price of your Elio. They'll need that money, too, when the time comes. The money they need now would be more of a long term investment.

There are NO gears used in your 1:1 ratio? I'm not familiar with that type of transmission. I'd think there would still have to be two gears meshed together, even if they were the same.

Snow tires on a FWD generally perform better than AWD with all-season tires. And that's coming from someone with two AWD cars. Snow tires make AWD unstoppable!

True, but CDs are only slightly more car friendly than taking all of my LPs with me. Most car stereos (certainly the one they end up putting in the Elio) don't have the resolution to hear the difference between a CD and a decent MP3. There were issues early on when people were ripping their...

Maybe GPS would have worked better than Google Earth. Having said that, GPS will occasionally take you the wrong way, but so will printed maps.

Woohoo! #12,620!!

Automotive forums can be rough places to hang out. I have seen people buy a perfectly reliable car, then spend lots of time on a forum reading about problem after problem that people are having, and then sell their car in a panic because they are certain that they will have all the same...

It is legal to add spirits to wine just like it is legal to add spirits to a cocktail. It is not legal to create those spirits through distillation at home. I would disagree that it is common to fortify wines at home. Out of the thousands of winemaking customers I have, probably less than 1%...

I'm from Maryland, a state that did not enforce prohibition. However, alcohol was still illegal at the federal level. Home brewing (Bert and wine) is legal at the federal level, but not in every state. Federal law covers all states, no matter what one particular state may say. Marijuana...

They only need 7 people a day to reach 40k by the end of March. I signed up knowing about the delays. There has also been a lot of progress. I'm hoping the Elio will be available by mid 2016, but I understand it may not be... and that it may never happen. However, I have seen enough progress...

Home beer and wine making IS legal (in most states). Home distilling (alcohol) is NOT legal. Federal law. There is NO amount that is legal, even for personal use.

I believe there are about 13,000 "all-in" at the $1,000 level. There are surely some $1,000 "want-ins" too.

Sure, you can be injured or die in any car/truck... but some give you a MUCH better chance than others. That first Mercedes I owned is a good example. I was in an accident where I flipped that car... rolled three and a half times. I walked away from that accident. No airbags, no seatbelt...

I would have thought the same thing... but look at "cool" cars like the Scion xB (gen 1), Nissan Cube, and Kia Soul. These are HUGE with hipsters and younger folks, but you are just as likely to see a 60-year-old woman driving one. In fact, my mother-in-law drives an xB, while my own mother...

No, the Elio probably won't... nor will most modern-day Mercedes. The reason I know the car is still on the road is that my father still services it. I saw it in his garage a few months back. Apparently, it is costing the new owner a pretty penny to keep it going at this point. It is...

Well, a 2-3 year old high-end BMW is going to be expensive, true... However, when I was 16, I bought a 9 year old Mercedes for about $4,000. That car was not only safe, but also very reliable and cheap to keep on the road. My last Mercedes (other than my Sprinter van) was a 1983 that has...

The power to weight ratio for the Elio isn't that bad... My first car was 3,500 pounds and had 67 horsepower. 0-60 wasn't very impressive, but it would do 93 MPH! The Elio should have about the same power to weight ratio as my Subaru Outback.

Dual pane windows for sound deadening.

I know someone who drove a 1990s s-class Mercedes. Someone smashed his door glass to steal the change in his console. The window glass cost $1,200 plus installation. Sometimes it's not what they steal, but what they break getting to it. A friend of mine had her car broken into so often...

Just had to replace the rear diff fluid in my Subaru... Won't have to do that in the Elio! Oh, 25% savings on wheel bearings, too!