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Old 09-07-2014, 04:40 AM   #629 (permalink)
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Surely the best smart move would be to design the car to be flexible enough to use different engines - that way you could start with a Metro unit, or a Mitsubishi, Toyota etc. engine. Then when newer units come along - e.g. the 1.1 Kia Diesel or maybe a FIAT Twin Air - those could be used too. Also as an owner if it breaks you could pick up parts for one of those units quite easily to fix it. Unless the Elio volumes are really going to be very high you aren't likely to find specialist bits for them so easily, or cheaply.

Morgan has been around for 104 years and hasn't made their own engine at all. Their cars cost 3-4 times as much as these Elio things too.
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