The Elio Automatic Transmission

[floydv]

What does a glass roof have to do with the transmission?

Glass provides efficient transmission of heat and light into the vehicle. How's that?

 

[acamara]

Glass provides efficient transmission of heat and light into the vehicle. How's that?

Well...errrr. sunlight "Radiates" so it heats thru Radiation.

Oh no... hopes this does not gets derailed to "Radiotors"

 

[Elio Amazed]

If you want to turn your car into an oven

Aha. So that's why that option will cost $1079.
Of course. Because it'll be photochromic!
Think transition lenses.

Those darned EM kids are so smart!

 

[Marshall]

I would think so as well. We'll see if they can cover enough ground to get all the reservationists a test drive between now and production... 50,000 people / 50 people per day is well over a year worth of test drives. Yeah, I just figured out that there is NO WAY they can let everyone have a test drive with a single vehicle... Now, if they just offer it to the $1,000 all ins, it's a different story. Same goes if they have more than one demo car.

You keep trying to exclude me because I'm only at the $500 level. There's a little $1K elitism here.

 

[Marshall]

Take 2 of these : and call me in the morning

Yes Doctor.

 

[pistonboy]

Paul Elio was considering putting the stores in strip malls, but this seems totally impractical. Strip malls are for small stores. Customers are suppose to be able to pick up their elios at the same store the following day. A strip mall store would be much too small for this.

 

[dbatch1715]

In the St. Louis area, there are several of the Quick Oil Change Buildings vacant. One might be a good location for a temporary Elio Store because they are in high traffic areas and already have a garage.

 

[WilliamH]

In the St. Louis area, there are several of the Quick Oil Change Buildings vacant. One might be a good location for a temporary Elio Store because they are in high traffic areas and already have a garage.

If you check a little you will find that Elio has said its retail stores will be about 4000 sq ft.
It will be a showroom with one Elio inside and it will have one manual and one automatic transmission demo unit.
The Elio retail sales locations will not have garages associated with them.

 

[Ty]

My opinion: I've driven both as most of you have. My concern is not that but the combination of the standard Steering with the manual transmission. I remember the '63 pony Mustang. But I do have time to test drive before it becomes a hard decision.. after all look at my SIL number.

Yup. You'll have plenty of time for a test drive. I mean, if they build just 400 a day (the line can run 533 per 8 hours), you'll have 49 days to get that test drive in.

 

[Ty]

What does a glass roof have to do with the transmission?

The transmission of light through the glass???