I've never been so "hot" to buy a car in my life! When I first heard of the Elio (about a year ago), I couldn't get enough! Like many of you, I stayed up late into the night, reading everything I could, day after day.
This car makes sense! A low-cost, simple-to-maintain, "low tech" vehicle? What a deal!!
Like many of you, I was excited to finally see (and hear!) the engine being tested!
But now I'm, like, "What? Still marketing? Enough already! Build the dang car!"
Surely with something like $60 million dollars collected (or even half of that!) and 40k+ of reservations, someone would have thought of actually building a real prototype (not some mule that doesn't have virtually any of the features of the real "proposed" vehicle). Heck! I've never built a car in my life. But give me a couple of million dollars, I double-dang guarantee you I could get a car built to spec. So what's the hold up?
Until that car is built, running and tested, this whole thing is just marketing hype.
I don't understand it. I've seen TV shows where craftsman design and build motorcycles from scratch in a matter of weeks. This vehicle (except for the engine) is said to consist of mostly "off-the-shelf" parts. SO BUILD THE DANG CAR ALREADY!!! What's the hold up? (Unless this really is just a scam....)
This car makes sense! A low-cost, simple-to-maintain, "low tech" vehicle? What a deal!!
Like many of you, I was excited to finally see (and hear!) the engine being tested!
But now I'm, like, "What? Still marketing? Enough already! Build the dang car!"
Surely with something like $60 million dollars collected (or even half of that!) and 40k+ of reservations, someone would have thought of actually building a real prototype (not some mule that doesn't have virtually any of the features of the real "proposed" vehicle). Heck! I've never built a car in my life. But give me a couple of million dollars, I double-dang guarantee you I could get a car built to spec. So what's the hold up?
Until that car is built, running and tested, this whole thing is just marketing hype.
I don't understand it. I've seen TV shows where craftsman design and build motorcycles from scratch in a matter of weeks. This vehicle (except for the engine) is said to consist of mostly "off-the-shelf" parts. SO BUILD THE DANG CAR ALREADY!!! What's the hold up? (Unless this really is just a scam....)