jdkeats
Elio Addict
What is a 1985 Booruu ?
just a picture of this beast makes my skin crawl
I always wanted to get a belly mower for this car since it had most of the attributes of my lawn tractor
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I must say that one of my first vehicles when I got of the Navy was a '87 Subaru DL Wagon...one of the most dependable cars I've ever owned. Kind of like the old Brat body. Unstoppable in the snow, I lived in Arvada, CO at the time, and tried. I only bought the SVX to pull the engine and stick it in one of my Porsches because it's basically a Japanese version of a 20k Porsche engine, but ended up liking it so much I couldn't send it to the crusher. Very cool car. Great engineering, but you've got to have a good set of tools (all metric...which is a pleasure, considering I need SAE and metric to work on any of my Jeeps). I've got nothing bad to say about Subys.
Was ist schadenfruude? Mine Freude.
yes, with Booroo's reputation of reliability and handling in bad weather and the most economical AWD ever made How could I go wrong?
I got rid of a 1985 lifted Ramcharger that ate u-joints like potato chips and got about 8 mpg.
Well I did go wrong. Car got about 15 mpg (better than 8) My monster Suburban got 15
and the oil leaks were like a wack-a-mole game, fix one 2 pop up.
a/c would not let the car go up hills very fast. It left me stranded at least 4 times (not from oil leak). Walking home on a highway from the last breakdown I had lots of time to think about how this story should end. a crusher? a bonfire? over a cliff? .......no just let a dealer pawn this POS on some unsuspecting victim.
Here's the SCOOP !!....Almost everyone that has "All In" money on the line want their Elio A.S.A.P....Right ? I'm no exception and waiting has got me being on the Elio website in the beginning every day...keeping up with all the lastest news...waiting patiently for the tour to come to Texas ! I got elioowners.com burnout...especially, when I heard production date would be post-poned til mid-2016 !.....I have since had to realize that checking daily was driving me nuts...people around me got tired of me talking about it. I now am on a savings plan to purchase my Elio in July - Sept. production schedule....If for some reason they have NOT hired the 1500+ plant workers needed May - June 2016...then odds are there will be NO PRODUCTION in mid 2016...( Very sadly ) I'll cut my losses and use my cash saved and buy a turbo-charged VW Sportswagon...I don't want to wait much longer on Elio...I need transportation !...been without car since 2013...gotta pay more for gas....just sayin'I have tried to put it out of my mind and not really pay much attention to delays.
I do have to make decisions based on my current needs and now I find myself in need of a new or newer car.
What am I to do?
I am making decisions right now based on not getting an Elio.
That is not my want nor what I want to believe, but that is my reality.
How are the rest of you fairing on these types of decisions?
P.S. the anti Elio crowd does not need to weigh in on this. Only want to hear from those that have some skin into the game.