What's Your First Major Destination After Getting Your Elio?

[RUCRAYZE]

Well, my Elio's first trip just might be to a buyer who'll have paid a premium to "must have" one.
then wait a few months for my $100.( all in) to watch it being built and drive it home.

 

[CheeseheadEarl]

still could be the U.S. (Alaska)

By latitude, I'm north of all the major cities in eastern Canada.

 

[BlioKart]

still could be the U.S. (Alaska)

you can see Russia from Alaska

 

[Trusting]

I live in Houston so I'll probably pick it up in Shreveport if I can save on the shipping charge. The approximately 4 hour trip back home on highway 59 should provide a chance to vary the speed enough for an initial break in.

Now, all you guys planning on those long trips. Maybe it's just me but I see a catch 22 with Elios and cross country travel. Sure, on a long trip is when you get the greatest benefit from the high gas mileage, but it's also when you are likely to be carrying the most luggage. Elios are not designed to carry large suit cases and other bulky luggage. So, when you could use it to most advantage is when it is least suited. Also, I'm not sure how comfortable a passenger will be in the back, looking at the read of the driver's seat for hours on end.

What Elios will need for real travel is a way of carrying more luggage. I can see several ways to accomplish this.

1. A fixed luggage rack on the lower hatch lid like is found on many sports cars.

2. A detachable luggage carrier that fits on the lower hatch lid with some kind of a clip and snaps system. This could be either a hard shell or the fabric kind made of nylon like a back pack. (we have the nylon type for our Xterra and it is both functional and economical).

3. A small trailer.

4. Finally, and the most unlikely, an "insert" for the rear luggage compartment. You would remove the rear hatch cover and install a hard shell compartment which would fit over the luggage area and go up as high as the roof of the car. In the rear would be a door for access. This is kind of like a camper on a pickup. Making it water tight where it fits in the car would be the biggest potential problem, not to mention looking weird as hell....

Comments and ideas please.

 

[BlioKart]

I plan to travel solo. And I wont be taking huge luggage so the back seat/trunk will be for spoils

 

[JEBar]

you've pretty much identified the same alternatives that have been discussed many times in various threads .... if you do a bit of searching you will find some really well designed plans for trailers and carriers of various kinds

 

[Joshua Caldwell]

still could be the U.S. (Alaska)

Elf = North Pole.

Russia is claiming the North Pole based on the undersea Lomonosov Ridge, planted a flag on it in 2007, and has formally applied with the UN to recognize their claim, which will be decided next year.

 

[Trusting]

you've pretty much identified the same alternatives that have been discussed many times in various threads .... if you do a bit of searching you will find some really well designed plans for trailers and carriers of various kinds

Yes, but I explain it so elegantly.

 

[Coss]

It all depends on the weather the day I get it.
But I have a lot of local places that have made me promise to bring it by when I get it.
Then Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond/Monroe/Spokane/Bonners Ferry, ID/and then home for a few days

 

[RUCRAYZE]

I live in Houston so I'll probably pick it up in Shreveport if I can save on the shipping charge. The approximately 4 hour trip back home on highway 59 should provide a chance to vary the speed enough for an initial break in.

Now, all you guys planning on those long trips. Maybe it's just me but I see a catch 22 with Elios and cross country travel. Sure, on a long trip is when you get the greatest benefit from the high gas mileage, but it's also when you are likely to be carrying the most luggage. Elios are not designed to carry large suit cases and other bulky luggage. So, when you could use it to most advantage is when it is least suited. Also, I'm not sure how comfortable a passenger will be in the back, looking at the read of the driver's seat for hours on end.

What Elios will need for real travel is a way of carrying more luggage. I can see several ways to accomplish this.

1. A fixed luggage rack on the lower hatch lid like is found on many sports cars.

2. A detachable luggage carrier that fits on the lower hatch lid with some kind of a clip and snaps system. This could be either a hard shell or the fabric kind made of nylon like a back pack. (we have the nylon type for our Xterra and it is both functional and economical).

3. A small trailer.

4. Finally, and the most unlikely, an "insert" for the rear luggage compartment. You would remove the rear hatch cover and install a hard shell compartment which would fit over the luggage area and go up as high as the roof of the car. In the rear would be a door for access. This is kind of like a camper on a pickup. Making it water tight where it fits in the car would be the biggest potential problem, not to mention looking weird as hell....

Comments and ideas please.

use your RV and stop trying to make a silk purse.........
in early tonight
IX:II