Would /o/ buy an elio if they ever ship?

>>14809418
id eco mod that shit hard

>>14809418
This is the car that normiefags need (unlike suvs etc), but absolutely do not want.

>>14809418
Vaporware

>>14809418
meme car

>>14809446
This.

Lmao people still talk about it, Im surprised they havent admitted to the public that this shit isnt happening. Has no one realized yet?
Poor retarded who pre ordered it

If it wasnt a scam, and came in a manual, yeah.

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Yes.

I'll buy one if it comes out. It would be a worthwhile pizza car.

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I can buy a four seat Dacia for $6600 before taxes.

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If gas stays around $2/gallon, people will ignore it. If gas goes back to $4/gallon, people will buy it. Then sell it and get a Trailblazer once gas drops again.

This is a smart car for a dumb car market.

>>14809504
nice would buy 10/10

>>14809520
>people who buy cars depending on the cost of gas
There's nothing that pisses me off more than this

>hurr durr gas is below $2 time to buy a hummer

i would buy it if it was real.

then find a way to put a 2jz, 4bt or a 3sgte in it

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>>14809520
I just wish it were more ascetic
also such a small cabin should have uv blocking tint as standard

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>>14809418

Looks like a morgan 3-wheeler with a shitbox-bodykit.

>>14809579

10000 times this.

>>14809418
> 3wheels
> No cargo area
> Proprietary components
> No passenger seating
> No USB stereo
> Tiny
> Fragile
> FWD in a wheel layout meant for simple RWD.

They could have gone with a bike rear end, but no.

>>14809602
STANCE IT

>>14809418
No, domestic build quality.

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Needs more edgy.

>>14809418
>84mpg highway
No, it doesn't. Only retarded <5ft people who drive 40mph on the highway will ever get even close to this, if the vaporware pile of shit ever launches.

It's also ridiculously unsafe and 'only' $6,800 is the price of a very nice LS400 + enough money left over to fuel it for a couple of years.

Seems just as impractical as a motorcycle without all the fun.

I'll just get a bike.

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The future ain't what it used to be.

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This could've been a thing but you let them go bankrupt.

>>14809796
Is that what the T-Rex evolved into?

>>14809418
Is there even enough room for your elbow to shift gears?

>>14809729
>No USB stereo
who the fuck uses that

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>>14809748

Fully riced.

>>14809825

Where is the rest of the car?

>>14809971
Sex

>>14809504
Pretty sure it doesn't pass safety or emissions for North America. I don't know why else we don't get cars like this.

Something that cheap simply cannot be made to satisfy regulations and still make profit.

>>14809561
>hurr durr gas is below $2 time to buy a hummer

This is literally what happens though

Tesla Model 3 reservation holder #500,000 will get his car before Elio ever ships #1.

>>14809729
don't forget
>classification means need a motorcycle license to drive it
most normies aren't going to bother given that requires you to buy or borrow an actual motorbike and take the test
this is like the reliant robin mk 2

>>14810199
some states will let you test out in a 3 wheel car, but your license will be restricted to that type of vehicle.

then you have helmet laws.

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>>14809418
It uses the engine from a Geo Metro.

>>14809971
you forgot the stanceworks logo

>>14810084
Considering it passes emissions in Europe (licensed Renault engines) and considering that Americans haven't been able to buy new Elises, Caterhams and Defenders in years I'm thinking it's safety. As much as American law lets you do to your individual car, the regulations are really anal about production car safety.

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>>14810274

>>14809961
Anyone who actually cares about sound quality, and has a decent stereo.

But then, you probably haven't moved on from tape adapters and FM transmitters, have you?
Fucking americans.

>>14810320
Saved

>>14810359
Wouldn't Bluetooth make more sense in a car like this? Less things to plug in. Plus with a small cabin, the microphone could be truly anywhere and it would pick up your voice.

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>>14810229
>year of our Lord 2016
>using a carburetor

>>14810359
MUH AMERICANS REEEEE

Is this one samefag posting this every thread?

No power steering means no average American today could handle it. They'd sit down in the seat then think something was broken when they couldn't readily turn the wheel.
Its unlikely that they'll ever go into production anyway. Totally dead in the water.

>>14810359
>installing aftermarket audio system
>on a car with a tape deck

Found the dirty spic!
Now creep back to the led-lit interior of your riced out tiburon

>>14810084
>Something being sold in the EU that doesn't pass safety rules from a third world country that pretty much doesn't even have car inspections and people drive around with two different car halves welded together.

Shiggidydidy

>>14810430
Not carbureted, dipstick. Efi.

>>14810569
Just because the rules are different in the US doesn't make them better, the crash tests they run have always been higher to compensate for the fact they can't fit into normal sized cars so the shit they produce runs over the top of normal crash structures, adjusting the E-Type for the septic market actually made it less safe but the pre-US spec cars wouldn't pass the US safety regs at the time due to the bumpers being too low.

>>14810453
There's literally no weight over the front wheels

>>14809418
I have two woman I regualar have sexual intercourse with how do I go about transporting both to my love nest with this abomination?

>>14810844
roof rack for the fat one

>>14809729
It has a passenger seat and can fit a full size suit case at the same time

>>14810893
Damn, I could never fit a full size suitcase in my Miata. At least not with the spare tire.

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>>14811584
>>14810893

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>>14809418
My car cost $2600 and is infinitely less gay

>>14809418
I've actually driven the orange prototype, and I'll be driving the red prototype at an event this July.

It's a nice little car. It's probably going to suck in small offset crash tests when the driver's wheel gets torn off and it drops onto that corner, pinning the door shut. Jerome at Elio told me in that case you're expected to climb out the right side window.

>>14811898
Or so you think.

>>14811939
Not that anon, only an idiot would believe otherwise.

nasty tail spin tho. wonder if it has and Ebrake for drifting

>>14809418
>Why would you not buy this as your non weekend boringcar?

Because if I'm going to die in a motorcycle accident I'd rather be on a motorcycle.

Also because vapor.

>>14810430
The orange one literally has a 1995 Geo Metro motor.

The red prototype they just made has the 3-cylinder Elio engine with direct injection.

Fuck no I want to blow up in a fuel fire after wrecking at 150+

>>14809418
what the fuck is the point? literally any other used car would be better for everything but gas mileage

>>14809561
If petrol was cheap here (UK, currently about $7USD a gallon) I would DD a hummer

>>14811981

It does. A proper lever handbrake.

Even if you can go 9o miles per gallon still only has 2 gallon tank. plus no cup holders that would piss me off

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>>14809825
>would buy for cash money
>would ensure sound system is properly dank
>would cruise around town playing link related

WHAT IS THIS GOD MACHINE
TAKE MY MONEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ZkhlJUQAM

>>14812003
Easier to get credit for a new car

>>14812032
at least used cars actually exist, and you can actually buy them

plus no fucking cupholders? are you fucking kidding me? this car will NEVER succeed in america

>>14810359
Are you familiar with car audio sysyems? How much of a limiting factor are tape adapters? Is it like a limit on bitrate (but analog) or does it add some level of distortion?

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Meanwhile, 60 years ago in Germany...

It comes with an aux cord lol top notch tech

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>>14812067
M'sserschmidt

even has more room

>>14812071
Isn't that what /o/ wants?

>>14809418

>soccer mom driving suv kills you the instant you start the car

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>>14812075
Sometimes came with danking special-styled trailer.

>>14809418
>0-60 in under 10 seconds
Well shit its faster than my accord

>>14812055

Hey man, the tape adapters commonly add at least one percentile point of Total Harmonic Distortion at all levels. The Signal to Noise Ratio is usually around a sad 75-78dB. Audibly shows up as a weak signal with reduced low frequencies under 150Hz and high frequencies over 15KHz that sounds distorted at low levels and very distorted at high levels.

There are better options.

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>>14809561
>tfw buy an old car because it was cheap and in unbelievable condition for what they were asking
>mfw it's a carburated v8
>mfw gas is going back up
>mfw people are going to assume I bought it because gas was cheap

>>14809418
would want in all white

>>14810430
>having an issue with carburetors
Found the normiefag

How hard would it be to run a driveshaft along the bottom of this thing and give it a self-built RWD?

>>14812142
More than you can afford, pal

>>14812067
> RWD

>>14812198
I said "how hard" not "how much", is my linguisitcs too big a guy for you to handle?

>>14812075
>>14812099
*tips*

>>14812205
Well yes, it is. But it was only something like a 500cc engine...

>>14812207
For you

>>14812207
it's harder than you can afford; it goes without saying that it's harder than you can do, since you had to ask

Fuck no

>>14809437
This

>>14809446
Also this

>>14812096
>soccer mom driving, suv

>>14812250
I am actually an engineering student and would look into doing that as a bachelor thesis.

>>14812293
no you wouldn't

>>14812309
Dream on

>>14812320
Fuck off Steven Tyler

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>>14812358
lmao

>>14809418
That thing would collapse the moment a hatchback hit the front wheels at high speed, thus rendering it useless. A FUCKING HATCHBACK. WOULD DEMOLISH IT.

>>14809418
Sucks about the motorcycle license thing

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If they don't give out produced vehicles this year you can call it a scam since they were promised all the way back in 2014

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I wouldn't buy one, because I'm not a poorfag and I need something that can haul boats, ATVs, horses, hay bales, and thousands of pounds of building materials.

That said, I wish small economical cars were more popular. Everyone and their mother gets shit they don't need, city boys and metrosexuals driving trucks and SUVs bigger than mine but nothing to haul but the occasional beer keg or Chipotle take-away.

>>14812569
>opposite day on /o/, the post

>>14812569
>I wouldn't buy one, because I'm not a poorfag
you what?

I plan to buy one in about three years. Assuming they aren't vaporware, I think it would be a great DD.

>>14812110
>Total Harmonic Distortion
That's a good band name.

>>14813503
>slow
>boring
>but really, really good fuel economy

You know for the same money you could just buy a normal motorcycle, and get the same fuel economy. Only the bike would actually be fun, maneuverable, and wouldn't be a hideous eyesore.

>>14813579
Go back to the bike thread senpai

>>14813579

Well not all of us live in California. Some of us can only afford 1 vehicle, and we live in states that have snow for 2 or 3 months. Not to mention dealing with rain..

>>14813579
>what is weather
Back to your containment thread

>>14813671
>not riding in the winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8f0Q7Ag_A

>>14810359
people who actually care about sound quality don't give a shit about their car stereo. car audio is absolute pleb tier audiophilia.

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>>14813701

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ky3stDZ5Vs

Riding through snow on a scooter looks like fun, but a 400lb+ bike just seems like a bad accident waiting to happen.

>>14810430
it looks like single point fuel injection to me.

>>14809971
sick. that looks really good.

Shame theyre FWD and not RWD motorbike though.

I saw a RWD motorbike half one a while ago. wouldve made an intersting skid pig.

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why not get a nice used car?

>>14813792
Because if everyone bought used cars then the auto industry would collapse

>>14813579
What is

> safety
> cargo
> weather protection

The average Elio prospect cross-shops Civics, not bikes. They serve wildly different purposes.

>>14813792
If you don't see how shitty this logic is, you aren't worth writing a reasonable response to.

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>>14813988
And the world would be better for it.

>>14810359
how the fuck is "USB audio" better than aux which gives you complete control until the analog point in the chain? not like it's possible to get "good" audio in a car anyways. you want audiophile sound in a car? wear IEMs while you drive and hope no-one notices.

>>14812216
In a tiny, tiny car, however.

>>14812408
This. One tap, and you're dead.

>>14813579
This. I have a proper car already, but I'm buying a motorbike for economical fun times.

>>14813710
Said like someone who drives a 1990s shitbox and listens to shitty music.

>>14815135
Because a USB stick eliminates the lossy aux cable and ports.
And, again, do you drive only 90s shitboxes or something, or do you have no concept of good music?

>>14815797
Unless you're in an S Class Mercedes, you're not going to miss any details in music in a regular car moving at highway speeds

>>14815797
Maybe not getting rained on eh? I was considering for a while to buy myself an old Messerschmidt Kabinenroller chassis and restoring it to usability but that would have busted my budget. I literally do not need any more than one back seat worth of storage space in 99% of the cases and never have a passenger, so a car like this would be a great DD to own for me.

>>14810084
>
Do you have any evidence that if it were submitted for testing it wouldn't pass given it scored 4 out of 5 on the NCAP test compared to 1 for the Cheverolet Avro?

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>>14810084
You're aware that something smaller is usually proportinally stronger than something bigger? Especially if optimized for stiffness instead of crumple zones. For example, a Smart car Tridion safety cell is, in case of a crash into a car that is not also a Smart or perhaps an armored car, the automotive equivalent of stepping onto a Lego. It doesn't have any crumple zones to make use of, so it will forcibly use the larger, overall softer car as a crumple zone for itself. Smart cars crashing into other, larger cars, especially soft 90's American sedans or others in that build category, often behave like ballistic projectiles trying to carve a way through the other car. Especially on side impact crashes.

Now look at this three wheeled thing. If you look at it from above, it even looks as if it was a rifle bullet. Imagine that punching through a fat SUV and flying out on the other side, leaving only ludicrous gibs in its wake.

>>14817593
>Especially if optimized for stiffness instead of crumple zones.
He wasn't talking about the Elio, he was talking about the Dacia, which is optimaized for cheap and probably crumples like tissue paper in an accident.

Anybody with half a brain realizes that the Elio is probably a pretty safe car, so long as you don't get hit by a semi.

I could see that thing getting absolutely SHREK'T by the potholes here in Minnesota.

>>14809504

James May pls go.

But I'd totally buy that for $6600 if they sold it in America.

>>14817775
No it doesn't it's as safe as the 2015 Ford Tourneo, Mazda CX-3, Mazda 2, Opal Karl, Hyundai i20 and Ford Kuga to name a few. It scored double the Ford Ranger on safety as well.

I'd buy the shit out of it. All I need is a decent beater to DD while I have my fun car and bike for the weekend. Plus since its new less shit to worry about

>>14809418
I want this thing to exist I really do, but I doubt it'll ever go into production

>>14809418
>all the downsides of a motorcycle with none of the maneuverability and cool factor
why would I want this?

>>14809561
I would buy a hummer if I had any faith in the build quality

I can get a E55 AMG for 7 grand.

>>14818441
>good gas mileage and cheap running costs are a downside

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Depeche Mode should do a remake of the "Never let me down" video with these.
Bet that would turn a few more heads.

>>14818483
you're probably dead if you get in an accident with a real car, rough ride, cold, very uncomfortable for long trips. Just like a motorcycle.

The fuel economy and cheap cost of ownership dont outweigh these things.

>>14818990
See
>>14817593

And it has AC and a heater

>>14818990
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>jack it up
>give it 18-inch knobby tires
>wahey it's like my dieselpunk animes

>>14810229
Only the prototype. Supposedly they're developing a brand new 3-cyl engine from the ground up.
Doing so is probably what will actually kill this project.

>>14812116
Just don't complain about gas prices. The idiots that buy shit because gas is cheap always complain when gas prices go up.

>>14812569
Not being a poorfag is exactly why I'll buy one. It's an oddball toy. I wouldn't drive it all the time, just get it because I can afford an extra toy.

>>14820103
Why not use a Geo Metro engine for the first generation cars then make a new engine for second generation cars when they can actually afford to do so?

Tesla didn't make a new car from the ground up when they started, they used a Lotus chassis

>>14820103
They already developed their own inline 3. Its all done as of right now. They've produced quite a few blocks last I heard. There hasn't been any real progress for the past couple years, and there is no actual reason why.

I think individual states have legislation that requires three wheeled vehicles to be recognized as motorcycles, and a few of them have mandatory helmet laws. Thats probably the only thing actually holding them back from being sold, but they still have to actually be mass produced first.

>>14813579
>Motorcycle doesn't have AC
Checkmate atheists :^)

>>14820417
Well really expensive bikes like the Honda Goldwing do, but that costs like $30k and are only bought by retirees