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  1. Charlie G

    Factory Pickup, Retail Store Pickup, Or Delivery

    This fine print seems to indicate that they will have a destination charge:
  2. Charlie G

    Legal: Motorcycle License And Helmet Laws

    This video is pretty bad... I really wish it was more professional and informative.
  3. Charlie G

    On Horse Power

    This is my late 80s Chevette 4 speed automatic, though you might not recognize it.
  4. Charlie G

    Reservations: 65341 As Of 6/20/2017

    Guess I missed that, thanks for clarifying. I'm guessing 34777 for Sunday's #.
  5. Charlie G

    Reservations: 65341 As Of 6/20/2017

    I assume they are, but even being down the last 3 weeks didn't stop them from releasing Sunday numbers. I'm wondering if they are worse than expected. I would have expected them to be around 37 reservations/day based on recent trends, which would put the total as of today at 34814. If they're...
  6. Charlie G

    Name That Elio / Elio Logo / Elio Marketing

    Maybe the Elio Trip. Trip for both "triple" and literal trip as in travel/commute. Triple wheels, triple average national MPG, triple gas cost with credit card plan, etc...
  7. Charlie G

    Reservations: 65341 As Of 6/20/2017

    Was anyone else surprised not to see a reservation number update yesterday? The vast majority of updates have been on Sundays 2/3 have been 7 days apart or less, and half of those have been exactly 7 days apart. This is the first time since July that an update has taken longer than 7...
  8. Charlie G

    Efficient Vehicle Tax

    But the problem is that those statements aren't true anymore. Someone can 'use' the road just as much in a electric, hybrid, or other HE vehicle as someone driving a gas car - but pay a far disproportionate amount of tax. Lets do some comparisons using combined MPG, an average of 10k miles...
  9. Charlie G

    Efficient Vehicle Tax

    One of the reasons states are doing this now is because people have been getting them after they can no longer drive due to DUIs/etc. Without some registration/tag requirement, there's no way to know who's legally on the road. Theft is also a potential problem - no tags makes them harder to...
  10. Charlie G

    Front Wheel Track

    People who live in glass houses... have made a poor choice.
  11. Charlie G

    Efficient Vehicle Tax

    It's a tricky issue, but I don't think adding tax to efficient vehicles is counterproductive - as long as it's less than you're saving on fuel economy. Roads have to get paid for, that's really all there is to it. You either tax everybody to pay for it equally, whether or not they use the...
  12. Charlie G

    Factory Pickup, Retail Store Pickup, Or Delivery

    Anyone else notice this is gone?
  13. Charlie G

    Name That Elio / Elio Logo / Elio Marketing

    I'm not sure it's a pretense in all cases. The American auto market is HUGE, big enough that it makes financial sense to offer 4 different versions of your base model vehicle just because the demand is there. In many cases, they're just a fancy way of adding an options package. But sometimes...
  14. Charlie G

    Name That Elio / Elio Logo / Elio Marketing

    Well, vehicle age comes to mind.
  15. Charlie G

    Name That Elio / Elio Logo / Elio Marketing

    People keep pointing out the Model T, but neglect to mention that it was available in at least 14 different body styles over it's lifetime, and had something like 5 different design generations. Those were not all advertised simply as a "Model T", despite the romance that notion seems to...
  16. Charlie G

    Name That Elio / Elio Logo / Elio Marketing

    This whole thread seems silly, what do people have against models and model years? How else are you supposed to keep track of any changes that are made over time, or different models? As soon as any change is made to the initial production run, you're going to want to keep track of it...
  17. Charlie G

    Elio Reservation Map And Survey

    The crystal is a semiconductor crystal + whisker = schottky diode ;)
  18. Charlie G

    Elio Reservation Map And Survey

    I don't know anything about the Boston World Fair, but the first solid state electronic device was the Cat's-whisker Detector
  19. Charlie G

    Reservations: 65341 As Of 6/20/2017

    Questions of increased cost are just a question of translating marketing into sales. If appearing on the morning news of one city a week prior to an event translates to a 20-car bump in sales for that day, then appearing in 2 cities a week potentially doubles that. I know I wouldn't have seen...
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