I mean I hate license plates and love the fourth amendment as much as anyone but I’m not sure your car has a right to privacy on public roads...I guess you’re saying that you have the right to not be identified as the owner of the car via the license plate but that’s not any more of a privacy violation than being…

Sorry but I don’t get it, surely it’s the look of the license plate that ruins the front end, right? I don’t see how this wrap changes that. FWIW, I’ve never had a front plate on the 5 cars I’ve owned here in California. Most car people here consider it a $25 beauty tax if you get a front plate ticket.

I found an error in this story.

“HD does seem to be on a product / design roll, but I continue to be amazed by the number of people who hate HD because... they’re HD. So very odd.”

(despite the huge environmental cost of mining the elements for the batteries).

Last year at this time, Musk was the darling of the environmental crowd for making electric cars so popular

The batteries aren’t even the worst part, he sells the carbon credits that BEV don’t use to other ICE coustomers at a huge profit, so he’s not taking any carbon out, if anything he’s allowing other automakers to pollute more. 

I don’t know of any professional driver that would ever do something like that. Doesn’t happen at this level of racing. And yes you can still get some level of draft from a slow moving car. Its not much but it is there

Absolute BS. You don’t hit the brakes at the end of your super-strategic slipstream.

Worst part is I see this on our highways sometimes. People tailgating so the person being tailgated makes a last minute pass. Good reason to not tail gate.

Yeah, you don’t get much slipstream from a car going that slow anyway.

Fair point but a Vantage V8 is by no means a supercar.

It’s outside an European specialist workshop

Realistically anything GM from the Buick Skylark, Reatta and even the much-loved suburbans and full size trucks. The recycled steel bodies would rust in just a few years, all of these vehicles would rattle and squeak in 50k miles, the forward-thinking CRT touchscreens in the Reatta and Riviera barely worked, and the…

In the mean time, the state and local governments will likely be spending money to upgrade the infrastructure in the area to accommodate the new factory.  IIRC, like subsidizing professional sports, the existing businesses and residents will pick up the tab and the eventual payback from any increased activity doesn’t…

Oh dang, now you got me excited for future product. R2T2

I am starting to see Rivians on the street though. There is one parked at a nearby doctor’s office and another at an engineering firm.

As a pickup truck driver (I'm a contractor and therefore use it for its intended purpose) I agree with this insofar as I despise these wannabe rednecks with their pavement princesses.

I really hate this thing, but I’d rather see a Hummer EV over a coal rolling F350 brodozer with a Carolina squat that has never hauled a thing in its life.