Day 899 of 1000
Late last year on my way home from Arizona, I went to the wrong gate by accident and set by a nice fellow with whom I struck up a conversation. I almost missed my plane, but had a fascinating discussion about a new company that had been started to build a new kind of inexpensive 2-seat, 3-wheel car. He was one of the V.P.’s of the company and explained it all in some detail. The name of the company is Elio Motors. They have identified a manufacturing facility in Louisiana and are scheduled to start delivering cars in 2015. Because it is a three wheel vehicle, they have done a lot of work to assure and to demonstrate its safety. They expect it to receive a 5-star safety rating. It gets 84 miles per gallon with an 8 gallon tank–over 600 miles on a tank of gas is pretty amazing. It is not a speed burner, but it goes 0-60 in 9.6 seconds so it is at least respectable. The retail price is low enough, $6800, that I am very tempted to get one for going to work. It looks pretty nice, too.
Betty Blonde #63 – 10/13/2008
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Eric
How interesting! This reminded me of a bizarre article that I stumbled upon several days ago regarding another three-wheeled vehicle from an earlier fuel efficiency conscious generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Century_Motor_Car_Corporation
I certainly don’t want to diminish anyone’s enthusiasm in fuel efficient vehicles. It was through the Indiana connection that this article came to my attention.