Concept Vs Production Car

[Edward]

3) Fall out of grace- They started as true believers of the concept, got impatient and now starting the blame game for not getting their Elio "as promised". Now they don't care what they get, 70 mpg is ok for them, Geo Metro motor is fine, don't care about the 5 star crash rating, don't care what's the final design anymore, etc. They're the one that all of a sudden started questioning the financial status of EM, the know it all about everything why EM is failing, etc., funny thing is they're the same one that didn't question anything when they got on board and made a blind faith deposits! LOL. They are the "give me my Elio" now or else I'll start these negative posts in here.

Or perhaps we are getting tired of being overpromised and underdelivered. They have been talking as if production was only waiting on details for a while now when the fact remains is that they have yet to build full prototype with all of the anticipated technology!

 

[Joshua Caldwell]

Or perhaps we are getting tired of being overpromised and underdelivered. They have been talking as if production was only waiting on details for a while now when the fact remains is that they have yet to build full prototype with all of the anticipated technology!

in that case, you'll love Elios information released today about the engine.

 

[Dustoff]

"Patience is a virtue"

 

[Dustoff]

Or perhaps we are getting tired of being overpromised and underdelivered. They have been talking as if production was only waiting on details for a while now when the fact remains is that they have yet to build full prototype with all of the anticipated technology!

 

[Edward]

in that case, you'll love Elios information released today about the engine.

That proves my point pretty well, actually. They've just received their first prototype engine that they now have to test. And they expect to go into production in 13-16 months?

 

[Joshua Caldwell]

You have to subtract 3 months, actually old news.

 

[Edward]

You have to subtract 3 months, actually old news.

Last week they announced production was being pushed back to Q3 of 2015. By my math, that is still over a year awayat the earliest and still the earliest timeframe for testing a prototype that I've seen

 

[Ty]

That proves my point pretty well, actually. They've just received their first prototype engine that they now have to test. And they expect to go into production in 13-16 months?

The engine pictures were from February - three months ago.

 

[Edward]

Okay, but that doesn't move production up.

 

[Ty]

Okay, but that doesn't move production up.

Not necessarily but it does mean that they aren't just now starting with engine testing. That has been going on. It also shows that they can actually be a bit further ahead than we realize. Maybe not much but we haven't heard about a lot of things being worked on and maybe Elio is further along than we realize in some areas which will enable them to absorb delays a little better time-wise.