Tag: Elio Motors

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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