 I want oneThe Elio. Three-wheeler. Two seater (inline). A 6'8" basketball player fits the rear seat. The driver seems to have more room than the driver of either of my Spridgets did. (When there was a second passenger, that is.) 84 MPG, $6,800. I want one.
One possible drawback - in some (maybe most) jurisdictions it's considered a motorcycle, so you have to wear a helmet. Not a deal-breaker. Might be a deal-breaker on insurance, though. Three-cylinder DOHC engine. Five speed manual and automatic transmissions. Three-wheel antilock brakes. 84 MPG, $6,800. I'm afraid it may turn out to be another Tucker - i'm a tad nervous about their finances.  From their
website:Overall Length: 160.5" Overall Height: 54.2" Front Wheel Track: 66.8" Wheelbase: 110" Headroom: Driver 39.8 Passenger 36.4 in Seat width: Driver 20.6 Passenger 25.3 in Interior Shoulder Width: 26.8 in Front seat Legroom: 42.7 in Rear seat Legroom: 33.1 in Elio has been designed to fit 95% of all men. The tallest person we have had in the Elio is a 6’8" former college basketball player, the largest is a 6’3", 365 lb man, and the smallest is a 5’0" woman (no, we didn’t ask the weight!).  I think i gonna plunk down
the $100 deposit to reserve a place in line, even if
they never actually build any or, if they do, i never
buy one. They have over 15,000 reservations already. At 84 MPG, i could round-trip New Orleans on about six gallons of gas - roughly half what it took me to make the run when i was doing it regularly every couple months around 1990 in the Honda. And, while gas prices are more than double in dollars, in real money ... not so much - inflation between 1990 and 2014 is 81% - four dollars today is equivalent to $2.21 in 1990 money. 84 MPG, $6,800. I want one. Going to be built in a former GM plant in Shreveport. GM built Hummers there (not real ones, like the military ones - the H2 and H3, the ones based on an existing GM truck/SUV chassis). Which, due to that stupid-looking over-sized body, actually had less cargo capacity than the regular ones. So now these teeny things gonna be built there. There's a certain symmetry to that.. |