Fuel-Efficient Elio Three-Wheel Car Hits 15,000 Orders Before Production Starts

Green Car Reports via autos.yahoo.com ^ | Fri Apr 25, 2014 | Antony Ingram

[353FMG]

Messerschmidt produced a three-wheeler right after WWII but it was more flimsy looking than this proposed design.

[Heart-Rest]

"It's led Elio to suggest the emissions from driving its cars 20,000 miles per year will produce lower greenhouse gases than the emissions of a cow."

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In fact, this is how you gas them up...

[Neidermeyer]

do you start it like you do a lawnmower ?

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If your lawnmower has the same electric start system you've had in every car since the 1940's then the answer is yes. This is a real vehicle made to take the same abuse as any other car in real world driving.

This pic is of an earlier prototype but it illustrates very clearly that this is a REAL car , the comparison car is a cadillac CTS ...

[minnesota_bound]

Rollover fun.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/06/vlcsnap-00008.jpg

[Little Ray]

If I was single, it would be perfect, I guess.
But I am not.

[xone]

You can say that again.