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I saw one at the mall last week. Much bigger than I expected. Like bigger than a Tundra. I don’t get it. You can’t fit much in the back. A lot of people like ho

I saw one at the mall last week. Much bigger than I expected. Like bigger than a Tundra. I don’t get it. You can’t fit much in the back. A lot of people like how traditional trucks look and this is a big departure. I hope insurance companies jack up their rates for these things, it’s going to destroy everything it contacts.

ChainOfFools 3y ago
I just saw one on the road yesterday here in Chino Hills California, and I was astonished at how incredibly worse the thing it looks in person than in the promo photos. I was pretty ambivalent about this truck before seeing one in person, now it's hard to imagine how anyone thought this was going to turn out well. The back tailgate is just an enormous grey not-quite-flat slab that looks exactly like a commercial kitchen dishwasher door that someone clicked on in a CAD program and stretched to truck size. And the stainless steel panels overall, despite being nearly brand new already looked like they had a bunch of fingerprint streaks or some sort of surface discoloration in a number of places, that really detracted from what was, I expect, an intended effect of clean severity. All the proportions read as very ungainly with the weight gathered in awkward visual masses, at least when seen up close from eye level. The panels already displayed just the slightest bit of imperfect matching between adjacent coplanar surfaces. I can't imagine how rough the thing is going to look in two or three years. I would take a rivian over two of these things any day of the week, even if it does look like Bomberman.
stcredzero 3y ago
You can’t fit much in the back. Has a longer bed than the F-150.
- coldbrewed 3y ago
  Pictures of the RC models show that the bed walls are sloped; that'll eat up a bunch of space if you're moving crates or boxes. The thing that I can't get over is the raised walls on the sides of the bed. The appeal of a pickup is that you can easily get things in/out of the bed without having to go through the rear of the vehicle; the raised walls are going to make it so much harder to quickly huck a heavy toolbox into the bed. Elements like the sloped bed walls and elevated external sides of the bed make it clear that this vehicle wasn't designed to be used as a truck.
  - AwaAwa 3y ago
    Almost seems like the goal was to build a planetary rover, in line with Musk's stated aims. Welcome to Mars, here's your space truck. Maybe that's why it needs to be meteorshower-proof?
- travisb 3y ago
  It has a longer bed than the shortest bed option of the F-150, but shorter than the other two options. It's about a foot narrower than all of then though.

ChainOfFools 3y ago

I just saw one on the road yesterday here in Chino Hills California, and I was astonished at how incredibly worse the thing it looks in person than in the promo photos. I was pretty ambivalent about this truck before seeing one in person, now it's hard to imagine how anyone thought this was going to turn out well. The back tailgate is just an enormous grey not-quite-flat slab that looks exactly like a commercial kitchen dishwasher door that someone clicked on in a CAD program and stretched to truck size. And the stainless steel panels overall, despite being nearly brand new already looked like they had a bunch of fingerprint streaks or some sort of surface discoloration in a number of places, that really detracted from what was, I expect, an intended effect of clean severity. All the proportions read as very ungainly with the weight gathered in awkward visual masses, at least when seen up close from eye level. The panels already displayed just the slightest bit of imperfect matching between adjacent coplanar surfaces. I can't imagine how rough the thing is going to look in two or three years. I would take a rivian over two of these things any day of the week, even if it does look like Bomberman.

stcredzero 3y ago

You can’t fit much in the back. Has a longer bed than the F-150.

coldbrewed 3y ago
Pictures of the RC models show that the bed walls are sloped; that'll eat up a bunch of space if you're moving crates or boxes. The thing that I can't get over is the raised walls on the sides of the bed. The appeal of a pickup is that you can easily get things in/out of the bed without having to go through the rear of the vehicle; the raised walls are going to make it so much harder to quickly huck a heavy toolbox into the bed. Elements like the sloped bed walls and elevated external sides of the bed make it clear that this vehicle wasn't designed to be used as a truck.
- AwaAwa 3y ago
  Almost seems like the goal was to build a planetary rover, in line with Musk's stated aims. Welcome to Mars, here's your space truck. Maybe that's why it needs to be meteorshower-proof?
travisb 3y ago
It has a longer bed than the shortest bed option of the F-150, but shorter than the other two options. It's about a foot narrower than all of then though.