Those are all good points, JEBar, but there's one major difference here that makes these comments a bit more meaningful. This vehicle is still in the development phase. There is a chance, if we voice our concerns and suggestions to the people behind the project, that the end product will better meet our particular needs/wants.
while certainly possible, the reality is the visionaries behind each project are literally investing their lives in producing a vehicle based on their dreams .... they are all working within bounds of engineering, economics, and practicality .... it has been explained that Arcimoto has designed their trike to use handlebars so that it drives like a snowmobile .... at this stage of its development, telling them to scrap that is unrealistic .... I have to hand it to Arcimoto with their response to simply test drive their trike and evaluate it based on personal experience .... telling EM to scrap the Elgin or offer yellow have resulted in a take it or leave it response .... next month I hope to buy my wife a new Camaro .... I doubt that telling them I agree with an evaluation by a major industry magazine that the window post are too thick and that there isn't enough backseat leg room will cause GM to change their design ..... bottom line, its pretty much a take it or leave it proposition .... while I'm on my soapbox, I know I don't have what it takes to build my own company to produce vehicles like an Elio, Arcimoto, or any other .... consequently, I have little patience with armchair quarterbacks who choose to nitpick and/or sit back and deride the people who are out there trying to do what I can't ....