TheAsterisk!
Elio Aficionado
Hey! I know I sort of act curmudgeonly from time to time, but I really am twenty-six, and I think the black looks awesome.
Admittedly, that's largely because I want to put the HUD in it and make jet-plane noises with my mouth while I drive one around- certain grays work, too- so it's a sort of shameless, childish geekiness that makes me think it's cool, but it is neat.
I've also considered getting it in white and adding a solid-color band down the side since it would sort of make the Elio look like one of Disney World's monorails.
Anyway, my newly cemented status as Dweeb Supreme aside, my experience with my millennial peers- as is typical of most of humanity- has been that they are actually somewhat more prone to conformity rather than outbursts of vibrant, rebellious, individualistic exuberance, but they may conform to what previous generations see as a changed state. Youth engage in almost ritualized, superficial quests for identity apart from their elders. Some who fear the loss of youth engage in ostentatious affectations. Then there are those who just like a bright color, and geeks who want the Batmobile but are broke. There are also the lazy who realize that gray and silver will handle infrequent washes more gracefully, and don't think they look too bad, anyway.
Let's see all the colors, and let's see some weird and beautiful custom wraps and paint jobs. Let's see some truly awful home-spun Rustoleum attempts, too, if only for the comedic value. I want to see so many of these trikes on the road and half-modified in garages that I will eventually get to see a multi-tone Elio that's clearly been repaired with the first available door or fender, nevermind the color. I personally think the orange and green they show on EM.com are hideous, and mostly just remind me of an iPhone 5c, conveying questionable taste rather than free spirit, but let's see a swarm of them, too!
Who am I to judge? Clearly, I have no taste, since I've pondered an Epcot-aesthetic for mine, and I'd probably play "Symphonie Electronique" in it while driving around, still making the jet-plane noises and telling anyone who will listen that it's an F-5 for the road.
Which, of course, gives me an idea that I'll probably be too cheap to actually follow through on: paint it up (or wrap it) like one of the "MiG-28s" from Top Gun, then wait and see how many actually get the F-5 claim, suss out my fellow aviation enthusiasts. Of course, then I'd want to dress up something real big as an F-14, too...
end of rant. 