I have a Slingshot and absolutely love it, but with the summer about here in Arizona, it will be in the stable for awhile. Have to understand, this is a completely different animal than they Elio. This is basically a 27,000 toy, at least it is for me, but I can see some folks using as a daily...
What I'm saying is that the margins in these cars have to be very slim, and he is throwing as much as 350.00 back on some cars. that's 5% back on a 7000.00 car.
I personally think he is wanting to calm down all the reservation holders, but lets think about this.
Would a up and coming, or going, company give back millions of badly needed funds to their first customers.
If that's the case, you can be sure the list will go up as well. just my 2 cents.
Dear Paul,
As many of you know, the journey of bringing the Elio to market has been an awesome undertaking in which many milestones have been achieved. The engineering is almost complete, the factory is secured, our supplier and service partners are engaged, and we have multiple opportunities...
sorry if its been posted but Mr Elio seems to be pretty candid here, very interesting.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2015/06/05/elio-prototype-dream/28564429/
Any Lawyers in the house? So i was looking at the ' Refundable deposit" that Elio offers and the terms of the agreement. When I brought the item to my cart, part of the agreement read"""" YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ELIO MOTORS, INC., MAY NOT HAVE COMPLETED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VEHICLE OR BEGUN...
I like the math that you guys are doing here. The 'extra' money that Elio is trying to raise is basically a drop in the bucket for what is needed to even get close to production. But 4,000,000.00 bucks is an awful lot for sustaining salaries and padded expense accounts.
I would have more...
My only concern is that some folks might not be following the progress or lack there-of, the production and not truly understand the possible risk involved in putting more money in. If they were a little more candid I would have no problems with the email. And I'm sure the email went to the...
Hello Paul,
Upgrade today from $100 to $500 All In and you could move up in the line as much as 21,000 spots!
Yep, simply adding the next upgrade to your existing $100 All In shoots you up the list ahead of the other $100 All In reservation holders as well as every $250 All In reservation...
OK, since I started all this with this thread, I will give you my thoughts why I posted after such a long absence. First, I am not against this Elio project at all, just truly discouraged. Too many false promises for me, and all the bits and pieces I have been reading have somewhat caused a...
Chris, you hit the nail on the head when you talk about Elio actively seeking new deposits. Come to think of it,and maybe why I decided to finally post in here after a long absence is that Elio has blasted me with no less than 25 emails in the last 2 weeks. Is it desperation, I don't know but...
OK, one more thing I though I would ask, because I do not know the answer. When the members of the Polaris Slingshot forum were demanding answers and not hearing from anybody, low and behold, things changed. I representative from Polaris addressed the forum directly with our concerns and posted...
wow, so many responses, love the enthusiastic group. To clarify a few things, I will still buy the Elio if its made. I understand both sides to this whole saga, and just wish we had better info. A small part of my might be comparing the experience with the purchase of the Slingshot. I heard...
What probably bothers me the most is all of us losing deposit's, and even more so, are all the people that sign up NOW, maybe unaware of all the problems there currently are. Its hard for me to like a company that cant be forthright from the beginning, and tell customers that there is a good...
I have been coming into this forum for over a year, but have not posted or signed in a long time. I basically am kissing my deposit goodbye, and have come to the true fact this 'car' will never be produced. Its just mathematics that it can't be done.
And it bothers me that I saw the Elio...
looks to be an amazing 3 wheeler to own. I have my deposit and cant wait.
http://www.polaris.com/en-us/slingshot?wt.mc_id=46E244EA-A200-E411-8E83-0050569A00BC&wt.mc_ev=sem&wt.srch=1&gclid=CI2_yMXGjsACFQcwaQodgYsAcw
Moderator comment: merged into existing Polaris Slingshot thread
For those of you that have not seen it here is a link,
http://www.polaris.com/en-us/slingshot?wt.mc_id=46E244EA-A200-E411-8E83-0050569A00BC&wt.mc_ev=sem&wt.srch=1&gclid=CI2_yMXGjsACFQcwaQodgYsAcw
Totally different animal than an Elise, and what a blast it will be.
Moderator comment: merged...