Elio Amazed
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Y'knoooow...
In my semi-rant about the A+ not bagging enough funding to pay everybody...
I forgot to include the bills for the photo shoots and cable TV commercials.
I'm starting to think that maybe the better course might have been K.I.S.S.
At first at least.
I'm thinking that not only does this whole sideshow get in everybody's way...
But it just seems to continue to drive the purchase price...
And the money and time required for production up and up and on and on...
Always with something 'new' to 'come up with', 'solve', 'figure out', 'work on' or 'improve'.
It almost seems like trying to foresee and design for every future want and contingency...
(And not true engineering) Is sucking up all the money and time...
And grinding the whole thing to a lumbering stop.
The basic CAR has to be as perfect as possible. Not everything else.
Take care of the car and the car will take care of all of us.
The freekin' CAR is the star. Not Paul, not Stu, not the board, not us, not the options.
Mission creep.
Look at the early U.S. VW Beetle. It had nothin'...
Except a low price and better gas mileage than the boats we drove then.
But by the mid-sixties people couldn't get enough of the ugly Beetle.
Regrettably, I won't pay $1050 for a transmission that's included as standard equipment overseas.
I've come to the conclusion that the only option I'm going to consider (if it does cost) is cruise.
Make mine $6800 base plus cruise, tax, title and delivery (another controversy). K.I.S.S....
Just direct all the resouces at putting the base model w' only the most common options...
In our hands and on the streets. That base model, not all the hype, doo-dads and promises...
That is what got us onboard to begin with. There's a lot of totally unnecessary nonsense going on here...
The concept was, and is, good enough for us on it's own. Stop beating it to death before you even bring it to life.
Sh*t-can the catastrophic dog and pony show.
Quit trying to anticipate every little luxury that might sell more Elios in the future.
Simple logic says that to sell more of something, you've had to have already sold some of something.
EM is not increasing the flow of reservations by any of these means.
Look at the numbers.
Missing the estimate by another 74M is absolutely ludicris.
K.I.S.S. As I stated when EM started the cable ads...
All resources (which were even less than had been anticipated) should have been put towards the E-series.
Em needs to quit it. JUST QUIT IT. They need to stop jacking around, drop all but the essentials, and get on with it.
This ain't a movie and they ain't Jesse James. If they truely have faith in a second year of being in production...
They need to focus and resume implementing the 'Art Of 21st Century Marketing' full force in that second year.
There has to be a first year for there ever to be a second.
Still soldiering on, but with an attitude and an opinion.
Go Elio!
In my semi-rant about the A+ not bagging enough funding to pay everybody...
I forgot to include the bills for the photo shoots and cable TV commercials.
I'm starting to think that maybe the better course might have been K.I.S.S.
At first at least.
I'm thinking that not only does this whole sideshow get in everybody's way...
But it just seems to continue to drive the purchase price...
And the money and time required for production up and up and on and on...
Always with something 'new' to 'come up with', 'solve', 'figure out', 'work on' or 'improve'.
It almost seems like trying to foresee and design for every future want and contingency...
(And not true engineering) Is sucking up all the money and time...
And grinding the whole thing to a lumbering stop.
The basic CAR has to be as perfect as possible. Not everything else.
Take care of the car and the car will take care of all of us.
The freekin' CAR is the star. Not Paul, not Stu, not the board, not us, not the options.
Mission creep.
Look at the early U.S. VW Beetle. It had nothin'...
Except a low price and better gas mileage than the boats we drove then.
But by the mid-sixties people couldn't get enough of the ugly Beetle.
Regrettably, I won't pay $1050 for a transmission that's included as standard equipment overseas.
I've come to the conclusion that the only option I'm going to consider (if it does cost) is cruise.
Make mine $6800 base plus cruise, tax, title and delivery (another controversy). K.I.S.S....
Just direct all the resouces at putting the base model w' only the most common options...
In our hands and on the streets. That base model, not all the hype, doo-dads and promises...
That is what got us onboard to begin with. There's a lot of totally unnecessary nonsense going on here...
The concept was, and is, good enough for us on it's own. Stop beating it to death before you even bring it to life.
Sh*t-can the catastrophic dog and pony show.
Quit trying to anticipate every little luxury that might sell more Elios in the future.
Simple logic says that to sell more of something, you've had to have already sold some of something.
EM is not increasing the flow of reservations by any of these means.
Look at the numbers.
Missing the estimate by another 74M is absolutely ludicris.
K.I.S.S. As I stated when EM started the cable ads...
All resources (which were even less than had been anticipated) should have been put towards the E-series.
Em needs to quit it. JUST QUIT IT. They need to stop jacking around, drop all but the essentials, and get on with it.
This ain't a movie and they ain't Jesse James. If they truely have faith in a second year of being in production...
They need to focus and resume implementing the 'Art Of 21st Century Marketing' full force in that second year.
There has to be a first year for there ever to be a second.
Still soldiering on, but with an attitude and an opinion.
Go Elio!
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