SONDORs all adds up to me. It was Paul Elio that tinkered with a concept in his garage with off the shelf parts that never quite fit. To my understanding Storm did a lot of brainStORMing, supplied rendered sketches, his vision, $1Million from a successful crowd funding campaign, and most importantly took the concept to a top rated team of Italian designer's, engineers, custom parts fabricators, and polished, detail oriented prototype builders that had the proven talent to get the job done. Storm consulted directly with that team throughout the entire design, engineering, and prototype building process. Sondors posted details and photos of that progress on Facebook and no marketing BS. A tangible production Milestone event completed without a high salaried CEO, Board of Directors, CFO, VP of Marketing, VP of Government Affairs, or Marketing Team touring the country with a non-test driveable, non-validated prototype. That's the thing that never quite added up to me, which is why my Elio reservation deposit refund check is in the bank. I do hope to test drive and purchase an Elio direct from an Elio Store some time in the future.
Performance and handling on the test track will be the true test to see what parts they got right and what needs changing during the process of building a series of pre-production vehicles and testing likely accomplished with the $20Million phase 2 funding round. If the initial SONDORs prototype screams around the test track with rave performance and handling reviews the $20Million of venture capital will be easily obtained. Even with a record fast and fiscally efficient Prototype build, Sondor's requires much more time and funding to successfully get a vehicle to production.
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