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The government mandating something that has been proven useless?? OUR beloved government from whence floweth the wisdom and guidance that shelters us from the chaos and dangers of the heartless world around us and, more importantly, from our OWN personal failings in judgement and character...

As to the original question, I suspect that if you calculate what 3 liters per 100 kilometers, ( which is how many countries measure fuel efficiency since they use neither miles nor gallons), you should find it's pretty close to 84 mpg. And while 84 is an odd number, 3liters per 100km is a nice...

If that does happen and Ford, Chevy, Honda etc... etc... decide to make their own version I would still stick with Elio because that would just prove, by virtue of having NO new technology in the Elio, that the big corporations could have had this concept on the road YEARS if not DECADES ago...

Higher compression = better efficiency, but as I understand it has presented challenges meeting pollution control standards here in the US. That's why cars in many other countries are getting significantly better MPG than similar models here. And cars like the new Fiats have to be de-tuned for...

Actually I wasn't really thinking 'cycles so much as cars and trucks since this thread was about making an Elio 'rumble', and it has a CAR engine, (and a small one at that). But in my unqualified and uninformed opinion I will submit that I have never heard anyone bragging about how 'safe' their...

That is why they SHOULD do it. It is very little to loose, and a HUGE potential gain.

There is the nickname for the elio, The Elio LOBSTER! It DOES kinda look like one from above.

My german is getting a bit rostig, but not a bad article. I think Germany might very well become a big market for Elio in the future.

Loud, loud, loud.... so what? any idiot can make more noise. How stupid does it look when the bad-a$$ beside me at a light takes off with a deafening roar that is supposed to impress everyone, and he's only accelerating from 0 to 30 at the same rate as my 4-banger truck? It takes THAT much...

Like I say, there are various levels of geezerdom. I'm a 40-something, but there are times when I see the stupid things younger folks do, the crap they call music, the inability to breathe without a dumb-phone, the lack of ethics and morals as even a concept, much less a practice..... Makes me...

I used to do car systems back when it was about sounding good, not just rattling windows six blocks away. The mid range is where the music happens, and a good bass is just on the stiff side, with a properly calculated enclosure, not that sloppy open-air crap. Sounds like you got a decent...

Sound 'quality'?? What's that? These days we just run some crappy mp3 source into something that'll turn it into boom-boom noises. For mids we have the noise of the car rattling itself apart. Now that's an awesome system!

Well, as someone who works in the geezer center, I can say on fair authority that there are multiple levels of geezerdom. I have folks in their 50's who are fully acredited geezers, and some in their 90's who can outrun me at 40-something. So maybe some kind of scale needs to be devised...

Whatever is in the final product will be cheap. The nature of the question suggests yo7'll be wanting to tear it all out anyway. I doubt there will be stock 6x9's in a cabin this small, and not much chance of fitting a standard sub enclosure anywhere. I have a suspicion that the bumpin'...

As with all things in life: Adapt or perish. I plan to survive just fine.

One certainty is that gas Will go back up. even if there was a little dip in reservations on the short term, the demand overall will return when prices rise again. By the time the vehicle is available for non-reserved purchase anything might have happened. I just wonder how much reservations...

This should also necessitate a stiffer valve cover which will be less prone to warping and leaking oil. My experience with similar engines has been one of constant oil seal issues. Hope that won't be the case with this one.

Personally I'd be fine with it if it sounds like a lawn mower, or even better, it could be nearly silent, (no, don't start the 'safety' crap again). This incessant "look at me... look at me.... " mentality baffles me. I'm too busy working 3 jobs to support my family to bother impressing...

The frequency produced by the engine firing is a product of bore diameter with some effect by stroke. If the primary wave resonance produced by the engine is 500 hertz for example, it will STAY 500 hertz. You can send it through a bigger pipe, add or eliminate muffler baffeling, or stick a...

Politics, like money, is ubiquitous. Virtually every aspect of our lives are largely, if not exclusively, dictated by politics and money in one form or another. So really, dancing AROUND politics to avoid controversy is kind of disingenuine on all our parts. But in the same way that white...