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Would be nice to see actual pics instead of silly silhouettes. I am in the market for exactly this kind of truck (especially a manual) but this doesn’t inspire
by temporallobe 3mo ago
Would be nice to see actual pics instead of silly silhouettes. I am in the market for exactly this kind of truck (especially a manual) but this doesn’t inspire me to want to buy it.
- convolvatron 3mo agoalso no real mention of body construction or bed dimensions. nice to see a 2 door though I guess
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- rationalist 3mo agoTheir website says body on frame.
- AlotOfReading 3mo agoThe company was started no earlier than December, according to the articles linked in another comment. Very real possibility that no pics or semi-finalized CAD design even exist yet at this point.
- 999900000999 3mo agoIt's basically an idea without enough funding to exist. I don't think 25$ reservation slots are going to pay for a full assembly line.
- b112 3mo ago$25 is too low. $25 feels like "no one will go after the guy if the money just disappears".
- rationalist 3mo agoSlate was $50.
- kotaKat 3mo agoSlate also had 3 years of skunkworks behind the scenes by Re:Build Manufacturing as "Project Re:Car" with millions being thrown behind it by Bezos and friends. https://rebuildmanufacturing.com/work/slate/ https://rebuildmanufacturing.com/work/slate/ The fact these guys are still trying to find manufacturing partners and suppliers is killing me when Slate's got Tier-1s (Vitro) already lined up cranking out windshields in Mexico for them (among the rest of the f*cking owl that is the truck coming together here in the US ;) )
- 8note 3mo agothe hat claims that it was started in 1905?
- coredog64 3mo agoThe founding date for the original REO. I don't think they have an unbroken line back to the original
- Animats 3mo agoThese new guys don't. The descendant of the original REO is Nucor Steel. REO owned a steel roofing company, and through a strange chain of events, that unit became the biggest steel company in the US.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor
- AlotOfReading 3mo agoThe original reo went bankrupt in 1967 and after series of mergers ended up as part of the truck company diamond reo. Diamond reo then had difficulties and stopped production in 1995. This reo is wholly unrelated, except the guy who started it bought the trademark.
- palmotea 3mo agoTIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speed_Wagon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speed_Wagon
- ssl-3 3mo agoI still own a Diamond Rio Volt SP250 MP3-playing portable CD player. How does that fit into this non-timeline? (I bought it in 2001 if that matters.)
- rasz 3mo agoWorked for Packard Bell .. for a while https://dfarq.homeip.net/happened-packard-bell/ https://dfarq.homeip.net/happened-packard-bell/ "In 1986, Packard Bell was the name of a defunct manufacturer of TVs and radios. Founded in 1926 or 1933 depending on how you count it, it survived until 1968 when it sold out to Teledyne. In the 1980s the brand still had some name recognition on its own. But look at the other names it resembled: Pacific Bell, the telephone company. Hewlett Packard, the computer company. Packard, the defunct maker of luxury cars. It sounded like an old-line company making quality products, which was what Beny Alagem counted on. He even put the slogan “America grew up listening to us. It still does,” on its early marketing literature. People always confused them for something they weren’t, and for a time, it helped. “I don’t know about other brands,” one customer said to me when I was selling computers in 1994, pointing at Compaq and Dell. “But Packard Bell, that’s an old company.” Even my coworkers routinely thought Packard Bell was related to HP or to Packard, the car maker."
- blitzar 3mo agoSo its basically an underdeveloped kickstarter project.
- ssl-3 3mo agoYes. Or my preferred expression: "Bullshit."
- jschveibinz 3mo agoTurabian might disagree with your use of quotation marks.
- bellowsgulch 3mo agoWhy are people designing such thoughtless websites?
- margalabargala 3mo agoOn the other hand, perhaps it is just that the company here has presented in its totality all existing information about the vehicle in question.
- Animats 3mo agoThat's the scary thought. Maybe the site is all they've got. Slate at least is far enough along that someone got to drive the prototype.[1] (Amusingly, Google pairs that video with an ad, "Freedom is Loud", for a Stellantis truck product.) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0t7wpkFc6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0t7wpkFc6U