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Old 05-31-2015, 12:40 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I'm all for it, funny everybody thinks the Elio is great, but these would be terrible. The only way the Elio skates by and has a chance of US approval is it has 3 wheels and is there for a motorcycle and doesn't need crash standards. So pull a wheel off the cars from India and bring them in. They don't have to be expensive, simple shipping costs and the costs of the cars in India would put them almost 1/2 the price of a Mirage. Any higher prices come from the government getting involved.
So instead people ride motorcycles or drive 20 year old US spec cars which I bet aren't any safer, use more gas, and have higher emissions.
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