Elio Motors - $6800 - 84 MPG

[Blu-by-U]

Originally Posted by BRZPDX

Why buy this when there is the Slingshot.

Because the Slingshot is strictly a fair weather vehicle with little passenger comfort (fixed seat position and short), not to mention the mpg. The Slingshot is very uncomfortable, from a passenger perspective, and noisy.

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Bykov

The first week I had my FR-S I had an incident where I parked in the parking lot at my squadron and I was there early. I was sitting there replying to my text when someone else parked next to me. They got out and opened their rear door to get their backpack.... right into my car. I was in it! They closed their door and walked away LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. I was losing my s*** in my car and when I got out I went to inspect the damage. Their door hit my rear window which was undamaged while their door had a little warp in it where it made contact.

Something similar happened to me today. I was sitting in my car, this obese person walks to his minivan, opens the door, and while getting in his giant ass knocked the door into my mirror, and I felt the car shake. His door had a patch of paint from my mirror on it, and he just drove away like nothing happened while I was looking at him...

The Elio is 54" tall which is like a normal sedan, I wonder how hard it would be to chop the top and drop it a bit...recumbent 3 wheel motorcycle that's harder to kill yourself in? I bet the engine can be upgraded to rev a bit more, like a motorcycle.

[Bykov]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Something similar happened to me today. I was sitting in my car, this obese person walks to his minivan, opens the door, and while getting in his giant ass knocked the door into my mirror, and I felt the car shake. His door had a patch of paint from my mirror on it, and he just drove away like nothing happened while I was looking at him...

The Elio is 54" tall which is like a normal sedan, I wonder how hard it would be to chop the top and drop it a bit...recumbent 3 wheel motorcycle that's harder to kill yourself in? I bet the engine can be upgraded to rev a bit more, like a motorcycle.

On the website it's says it comes on coilovers and the height is fully adjustable. Which makes sense. It's probably cheaper to buy coils than the develope a completely new suspension ground up. Bet you it's on Racelands! Lol! Not track quality but they would be more than sufficient.

Cutting the top off however.... Willing to bet it's a major part of the structure. I would love to bore my elio out and raise the redline to 10k! HA

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Bykov

On the website it's says it comes on coilovers and the height is fully adjustable. Which makes sense. It's probably cheaper to buy coils than the develope a completely new suspension ground up. Bet you it's on Racelands! Lol! Not track quality but they would be more than sufficient.

Cutting the top off however.... Willing to bet it's a major part of the structure. I would love to bore my elio out and raise the redline to 10k! HA

You can't drop a car 4 inches...the bottom would be scraping every pebble.

By chop I mean cut the pillars and reattach the roof at a lower point.

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[e30kawi]

You would think that with the millions of dollars they've received for pre orders over the last 7 years they would be pumping out cars by now. I know I would buy one after a year or two of them being out for reliability reasons. Like many people I have a long commute that is usually/always by myself. My motorcycle is nice but impractical when the temps are at either extreme.

[gravitylover]

Classified as a motorcycle means you have to wear a helmet. Who wants to wear a helmet in a fully enclosed vehicle? Eliminates the desire to own one for me.

[killboy]

Originally Posted by gravitylover

Classified as a motorcycle means you have to wear a helmet. Who wants to wear a helmet in a fully enclosed vehicle? Eliminates the desire to own one for me.

Helmet laws are state-based, some don't require them at all, and even the ones that do require helmets worn on 2-wheeled motorcycles do not always require them on 3-wheeled vehicles. In our state and the adjoining, if the 3-wheeled vehicle has bucket seats and a steering wheel, like the Polaris Slingshot, Campagna T-Rex, and this thing, you do not have to wear a helmet. If you ride straddle of a seat and operate it via handlebars, like the Can-Am Spyder, then you do.

Source: I work in motorcycle tourism.