The P5: What Would You Change?

[RUCRAYZE]

Help on basics please:

Is the final assembly in Shreveport or just the motors?

Is the estimated start of production still Fall 2016?

How will the vehicles be delivered? Are they stiill contemplating a presence in strip centers or has that changed? If not, will they be company owned or franchise dealers?

I don't think the stores will be up at the time the line fires up. It's been mentioned that E M will contact reservationists directly to build your unit i.e.color/transmission + extras a month or two before your build. It's still fuzzy if the distribution centers will be set-up and where/how they will be delivered. Test drives?, financing/buying,? I haven't heard in a long time the E credit card "thing"- gives the false sense that if you pay double your gas purchase towards your loan, it'll somehow be paid off, no interest rates, no other financing that I've heard of

 

[Trusting]

I'm thinking I can fit a small bubble machine behind the rear decklid, so as long as I have a way to remotely lift the hatch I could shower the trucker with bubbles.

Bubbles? Really? Kind of letting him off easy.

Years ago a friend of mine, who had a real thing about tailgaters, rigged up something really cool... and probably illegal. On the back deck behind the rear seat of his Mercedes he installed a small light about the size of a golf ball. This light laid flat and was aimed upward so it was not seen by other motorists. But, when some one was tailgating he would warn them a couple of times with his break lights and if they would not back off the little light would do it's thing. With the flick of a switch the light would raise up where it was facing the rear toward the offending tailgater. Then you would hear this hum as the capacitor charged up for a few seconds. All of a sudden the light would pulse sending out a ONE MILLION CANDLE POWER flash right at the the tailgater's eyes. The effect was unbelievable. I was with him one night when this happened and the guy behind us almost ran off the road.... but no more tailgating. I tell this story not as a suggestion you rig up one of these, but just for amusement.

 

[outsydthebox]

I'm thinking I can fit a small bubble machine behind the rear decklid, so as long as I have a way to remotely lift the hatch I could shower the trucker with bubbles.

......And THEN the Laurence Welk music begins to BLARE! Those tailgaters will drop back SSOO fast!
Laurence Welk and bubbles...they just "go together"

 

[Sethodine]

......And THEN the Laurence Welk music begins to BLARE! Those tailgaters will drop back SSOO fast!

I was thinking more like the Benny Hill theme song

 

[Elio Amazed]

Think Slim Whitman in "Mars Attacks!"

 

[Maurtis]

I was with him one night when this happened and the guy behind us almost ran off the road.... but no more tailgating. I tell this story not as a suggestion you rig up one of these, but just for amusement.

Sweet, he almost killed a guy. Totally worth it. Or better yet, maybe the tailgaiter veers into my Elio with my kid in the back and kills us too. Justice!

 

[NOLIKEIT]

I love everything about the Elio, except the position of the filler neck.

PLEASE put it on the driver side. That makes gas station stops so much more efficient.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

I love everything about the Elio, except the position of the filler neck.

PLEASE put it on the driver side. That makes gas station stops so much more efficient.

Got me chuckling !!, I thought topics of the gas filler were finished. (The Elgin Dash and colors continue to be favorite topics) Both of which are locked in. Simply, even pretty please, won't relocate it. If you've followed along, the final designs are close to, if not complete. As we communicate 25 units are being crafted, and the position of the filler, and the dash remain unchanged.
There are thousands of posts on the location of the filler, and BTW- BOTH SIDES ARE THE DRIVER'S SIDE!! (me smiling)

 

[NOLIKEIT]

Got me chuckling !!, I thought topics of the gas filler were finished. (The Elgin Dash and colors continue to be favorite topics) Both of which are locked in. Simply, even pretty please, won't relocate it. If you've followed along, the final designs are close to, if not complete. As we communicate 25 units are being crafted, and the position of the filler, and the dash remain unchanged.
There are thousands of posts on the location of the filler, and BTW- BOTH SIDES ARE THE DRIVER'S SIDE!! (me smiling)

But only one side you have to walk ALL THE WAY around the vehicle to fill up(hehe), directly over an exhaust pipe.(seriously?, heat+fuel=?)

I guess I'm just more efficient.
LIVE LIFE BY THE MILLISECOND!

 

[floydv]

If I were a spiteful Paul, I'd design the gas filler tube into the center hole in the Elgin dash, perhaps in the center of the tach instrument, to make it the most convenient gas filler design possible for those complaining about the filler being on the wrong side. This way, you could just reach out the window and fill your gas in the dash without ever stepping out!

How's that for being responsive to these complaints?