Yes.

On average, each vehicle shipped was over 75% complete!

So I can maybe understand the Taycan, but “she had her heart set on a Ford Escape plug-in hybrid”.

FINNISH HIM!

I have it on good authority that Formula 1 is no longer a sport:

He wants to cosplay as a humble man-o’-the-people so that when he has to pay taxes on the stock he’s forced to sell, dudes making $35000/year dumping their extra money in Dogecoin will defend him on twitter.

After a while people create the fiction for themselves. What others think is irrelevant compared to the story you want to believe yourself.

My in-laws don’t own a home, in fact they don’t even own a car nor an RV. They do, however own an LLC that owns several cars, an RV and a home that they happen to live in. So yeah I take that whole “Rich Guy doesn’t even own a home” schtick with a big grain of salt. Also “Warren Buffet still lives in the home he grew…

All of this anti-mine fever lives in a world where people are expected to purchase gold and diamonds as non-essential baubles to wear.

Brown ‘wagons’. GM was once on the path. 

Torch,

But they looked 18!

Great point. Why do automotive journalists not research and understand this critical distinction?

On your examples: Toolboxes easily fit in short beds, as does small lawn equipment. Auto parts are rarely bigger than 6ft(7+ft with tailgate down), furniture could fit in the bed, but aside from homeowners moving things, this is often transported in vans/boxtrucks. The Rivian will never be a fleet vehicle due to…

Full size trucks aren’t dump trucks, hauling heavy loads in the bed isn’t their primary purpose, their main reason for being is towing.

You picked literally the worst examples for payload though. Of course a half ton truck isn’t going to be hauling a lot of dirt and rocks, EV or not.

Exactly, The longer range F150 will still be cheaper than the base rivian

A very important detail right there.

I think these are likely batteries they had in storage for replacements when needed and now they want to get rid of them so they can just have one sku.

If you’re the type of person who reads the fine print perhaps you don’t deserve to own a Tesla.