>>I've ordered one...
>>http://www.eliomotors.com/
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>>Price seems right and 84mpg on the highway.
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>85mpg highway doesn't seem very impressive by European standards - there must be a dozen models here that get better *average* mileage than that.
>Sure, great price - but it doesn't seem suitable if it would be your *only* vehicle...
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>I think I prefer the BMW i8 :-}

They are pretty - but the doors are hell in many latter day sub-terran parking garages, esp. with double or triple capacity added by lifts for each place. But current crop of SUV also sometimes cannot go (park) there