Just get it out there in the showrooms - then see if it, or the Chinese cheaper version, actually sell. But please make it a hybrid - that would be a selling point - there are too many small-engine only-IC cars around. The way Obama and the regulators are going in the US, hybrids might end up mandatory by 2014 anyway.

I liked it in 2007, and I like it now :)
Though I wish they would put two tires at the back. Some configuration otherwise. A nice futuristic dash that wraps around the driver and capacitive soft touch controls with "Corning world of glass" style interface woul dnot go astray.

Both price options seem quite excessive, though I would definitely like to see them on the road. I would go with a gas engine and hydraulic regenerative braking and acceleration assist...or flywheel regeneration. Both are fairly simple and avoid the high priced batteries of hybrids/electrics/plug-ins and the added weight. They don't have to be perfect. If it just saves 0-30 mph energy that would still help quite a bit. It also should have no trouble reaching 100mpg perhaps 150mpg and still have reasonable acceleration. This engine would be a nice match: http://www.gizmag.com/wave-disc-generator-combustion-engine/19394/ It is small and efficient and with hydraulic regenerative braking and acceleration assist 200mpg may even be realistic. Maybe that is too many nascent technologies but it would be something special.

I would go for the made in China model since it is way less expensive than the hand-made in America model. I think the gas engine one would make more sense than the pure-electric one (and the hybrid [like that found in diesel electric trains] makes even more sense).
I think it would be neat if some one brought back the Corbin Merlin roadster (or at least something very similar to it). http://www.corbin.com/motors/merlin/index.shtml http://www.3wheelers.com/corbin.html

$50 GRAND?! HA ha hahahahhaha........no. They take a company that had a decent idea, then roll it up in a premium package to line the company;s pockets with gold.
For that kind of money, I want free roadside assistance FOR LIFE, and a 10 year no questions asked unlimited mileage warranty.
It'd be cheaper to buy a Prius and have a battery and solar package done to get the mileage very close to what the Aptera gets.

The price for the Aptera has to be driven much further downward. Already it has competition from Elio Motors that will be building an 85 mpg three-wheeled vehicle that will cost less than $7000 and be built in an old GM plant in Shreveport, LA. Sure the Elio's passengers don't sit side by side, but usually for commuting, you only have the driver in the vehicle anyway.

I had a position for one but bailed when they hired the auto engineers and went overpriced bigger engine ect.

Happy to see! There is a market for the Aptera. There always has been a market for expensive, somewhat exotic vehicles and as long as a company can survive catering to that, it's all good. Think "Morgan Plus-Eight".
But they do have to work on their sales pitch. It is incompetent management when somebody within the company labels some part of their product line "a better product" over some other.
Not gonna work that way. Must find different ways of distinguishing the U.S. made ones. Tesla is showing how you can have the same thing at half price, and not repel people from wanting to shell out way more to buy the "full package". They won't tell you the 50k version of the "S" is not as good a car as the 100k one.
Seriously Aptera, stop doing such a dumb thing.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time." seems appropriate here.
Bill Allison, the renowned, suspension engineer who designed the Packard torsion ride and who's work inspired Sir Alec Moulton as a young boy almost slapped me when I told him that I loved the Mog.
He pointed out that three wheeled vehicles are essentially motorcycles and from a suspension perspective was inherently dangerous.
While I do love seeing that motorcycle engine in front of the radiator again but I do also believe that certain things need to be taken very seriously. Particularly when human lives are at stake.
Bill knew suspensions backwards and forwards and had developed suspensions cross linking them in virtually every possible combination. He held more patents on suspensions than any other engineer.
So when I covered the Progressive Automotive Insurance Automotive X Prize for AltEnergy.mag I got to watch the Aptera spin out a number of times
I mentioned bills knowledge to the Reporter of Consumers Reports and she cracked up.
The problem behind this is that there is an absurd notion that less wheels mean less rolling resistance. If that were absolutely true, all the rail cars would have 3 wheels, but they don't. They have bogied paris of 8 wheels and that provides the lowest rolling resistance.
If you don't believe this then build 3 models with 4, 6 and 8 wheels. Put them on an inclined plane and let them roll.
Use a piece of chalk to mark where they roll to a stop and you will see the truth to the physical phenomenon.
Otherwise talk with the Japanese Professor who designed the Elica.
That the Chinese bought into this fits perfectly with their buying into the MooCow Computers of our Brilliant Governor.
Bill
BTW Bill is the only person to have hit the Betz limit with his wind engine designs.

Elio at 80mpg and $6800 works much better for me.