Elio Crowdfunding

[NSTG8R]

Did you know that to be in the top 1% of the top 1%, yes, that's right, you need to be making $74,000 or more. To me, that's terrifying. Most of us on this thread, I suspect, are members of that elite group ... and we want a cheap car!

Go figure.

Make my Elio 'inexpensive'. If I want "cheap", I'll head to Harbor Freight (which will probably be selling Elio clones in ten years.)

Seriously though. Like bower's said. I could easily afford a nicer vehicle. Heck, I've got a '96 Ford F250 and a '92 Subaru (and a small herd of non-running Porsche 914s). On the plus side, the only way they can be "hacked", is with a hatchet.

 

[bowers baldwin]

Make my Elio 'inexpensive'. If I want "cheap", I'll head to Harbor Freight (which will probably be selling Elio clones in ten years.)

Seriously though. Like bower's said. I could easily afford a nicer vehicle. Heck, I've got a '96 Ford F250 and a '92 Subaru (and a small herd of non-running Porsche 914s). On the plus side, the only way they can be "hacked", is with a hatchet.

Are any of the 914's 6 cylinder cars?

 

[NSTG8R]

Are any of the 914's 6 cylinder cars?

Nope. All 2.0L 4 cyl. ['73, '74 ,'75]. An "original" 914-6 would be sweet (and worth about 4 times all mine put together).

 

[Ian442]

I am not in the top 1 percent or even two percent....lol.

I got where I am today because of my ability to learn on the job and my desire to work hard.

I somehow managed to convince people to take a chance on me.

This car is important because it will do something useful besides just save me thousands of dollars a year. It will fit what I need to drive versus what I am driving because of an immediate need for a car.

 

[bowers baldwin]

I am not in the top 1 percent or even two percent....lol.

I got where I am today because of my ability to learn on the job and my desire to work hard.

I somehow managed to convince people to take a chance on me.

This car is important because it will do something useful besides just save me thousands of dollars a year. It will fit what I need to drive versus what I am driving because of an immediate need for a car.

If you are on the internet at all, you are in the 40% of the world that has access to it. And I am guessing you own a computer, top 20%, a tablet top 6%. See you get more and more elite.. from Google:

If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of the world.

If you have money in the bank, your wallet, and some spare change you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

See how lucky we are... no need to be in the 1% to be happy, healthy and wise.

 

[Buckeyejake]

I'm frugal. The Elio will be my first new car. I have always purchased used Audi A-6's. Buy them for next to nothing with 50,000 miles. Their power train is indestructible. Most of those vehicles I gave to someone else with 300,000 to 350,000 miles. Guess what? Most are still running. Try to average 6-6.5 cents per mile over the life of my ownership. To reach that number with the Elio I will only need to travel 100,000 miles. Should be a cake walk.

 

[Ekh]

That's how you keep your money, I still have my first car, after 32 years! But seriously, I know value when I see it, sure I could drive a BMW/Mercedes heck I could afford a Rolls if I really wanted (I drive a Fiat 500), but I see the value in a $6800/84MPG 'car'. I suspect many others here do also.

OK, OK, it's not cheap, it's inexpensive. I'm driving a 2009 Forester which was moderately priced at about 23K, but is now NOT cheap OR inexpensive to maintain. MPG has dropped, despite all my efforts to track and fix the villain, to an embarrassing 22.8 overall, and it has needed a number of major repairs. I want my Elio, but don't think I can use the Forester for routine running about much longer. Argh!

 

[bowers baldwin]

Nope. All 2.0L 4 cyl. ['73, '74 ,'75]. An "original" 914-6 would be sweet (and worth about 4 times all mine put together).

Too bad, hows the rust issue with the ones you have?

 

[bowers baldwin]

OK, OK, it's not cheap, it's inexpensive. I'm driving a 2009 Forester which was moderately priced at about 23K, but is now NOT cheap OR inexpensive to maintain. MPG has dropped, despite all my efforts to track and fix the villain, to an embarrassing 22.8 overall, and it has needed a number of major repairs. I want my Elio, but don't think I can use the Forester for routine running about much longer. Argh!

One good thing about Subaru is they hold their value pretty good, it took me a year to find a used Forrester XT that I liked, it's not that I was looking for a steal, but it was just finding someone selling one!

 

[LillyMayPatterson #1685 & #5648]

$25,000,000
Funding Goal

131%
Reserved

$32,933,604
in non-binding indications of interest received so far

9006
Reservations

The thrill is gone, lol. I see you guys are talking cars again. Oh Well, Good Morning.