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what's up everyone Sam Shepard here with the Byrds we're at CES 2015 and this is the Elio let's go for a ride the Elio is a three-wheeled car composed of car components from American car manufacturers like GM Ford and Chevy it's got a steering wheel it's got one wheel on the back two in the front drives like a normal car it looks like it would be an electric car but it's surprisingly not it runs on gasoline and it's gonna cost six thousand eight hundred bucks when it comes out in 2016 he took the Elio on the Las Vegas Strip and driving it around feels very much like a normal car I will say steering is a bit heavy it feels like because the wheels aren't really flush with the car that they sort of look like a prowler the Elio gets 84 miles to the gallon on the highway due to a combination of aerodynamics its lightweight body it's three cylinder engine so in terms of performance the car was governed 235 miles an hour so it was hard to gauge just how fast and powerful the car was but a three cylinder engine is definitely slow so you can't really race this thing it has a top speed of 100 miles an hour with 84 miles per gallon you'll be able to get places really quickly but you won't be able to bring that much stuff with you the company tells us that it's going to ship in 2016 for 6,800 bucks subscribe to the verge on youtube youtube.com slash laberge we are here