I’m sure for this all-new EV they wanted/needed to make things easier by only working on one spec, and I would imagine their sales data stated that this cab & bed combo was most likely to produce the best sales.

Indeed, this could be a deal breaker for me if I get locked into a dealer who is charging over MSRP. I reserved at a local dealer who was supposedly selling Focus RS’s without a markup, so fingers crossed.

Ineed, this is what I’m hoping for (I reserved a truck). I don’t have $50-60k to spend, but I don’t care about leather seats, a ginormous screen or a fancy stereo (the extra speakers only complicate things and make aftermarket upgrades more difficult).

“But that is a truck designed for Californians with brains the size of a peanut...”

I just placed my reservation. I am amazed they are selling this truck starting at 40k before tax rebates. I wonder if Chevy is going to have to adjust their price on their yet-to-be revealed truck. I hope they reveal it soon. Cool times.

You’re definitely not alone. There are advantages to using transmissions in EVs, but try to say that online and hordes of people will trash you as an idiot saying that there are no advantages to using transmissions in any EVs because of the large powerband (ignoring the fact that multiple gears can increase max speed…

“lamestream manufacturers”

I saw on a YouTube video a rumor that this will likely happen. Supposedly daddy mazespin wanted to buy/heavily invest in Force India/Racing Point but got outbid by Stroll. Gene Haas is rumored to want to sell his team so it seems natural that selling it to mazepin would be the easy way out.

Indeed, even my girlfriend (who knows very little about racing) watched the race with me for a couple of laps and immediately commented that the course looked super narrow.

I hope this radio chatter is on youtube.

Gotta keep the mob (LV Paving Co.) busy!

Yeah, it’s telling that they didn’t put that shit up on a public referendum. I’m 90% sure it wouldn’t have passed. The amount they paid was way too much for any NFL team (especially with the NFL’s popularity decreasing), let alone for the Raiders. I don’t know a single person who likes them. Everyone here who’s into…

“It’s good that we put the petty questions of “ownership” of ideas behind us for the greater good of increasing EV development and national battery production, right?”

As a long time resident of Las Vegas, I am embarrassed that Clark County and the LVCVA have dodged every opportunity to build any type of effective mass public transit in favor of...whatever the fuck this bullshit is.

Pretty easy: you hook an electric motor up to a car with a manual transmission. Just like Jeeo did with their recent wrangler EV concept, and like DIY conversion nerds do all the time.

I'd buy an EV idx with a manual trans. I know the chances of any of that happening is exactly 0.00%.

Ineed, and I always wonder about that when I see 20-somethings driving around in GT-Rs, lambos, Model S’s, etc. I bet there’s tons of people way overextending their credit, living paycheck to paycheck & not properly funding their retirement accounts just to one-up people with a fancy quickly depreciating asset.

Is it though? Is GM really going to sell a significantly higher # of these trucks if they use the original performance of this one song in a commercial? Impossible for any of us to know, but I kinda doubt it.

Very hard. Led Zeppelin is notorious for not allowing their music to be used on much of anything. Taiki Waittiti (sp?) was surprised he was able to use it in Thor: Ragnarok because they (L.Z.) usually never license their music for movies.

Almost any car new or old should be able to move using only the clutch as long as you're on level ground, the car is in proper running order and the driver lets the clutch out slowly enough. How slowly depends on the ratio of effective wheel torque to vehicle weight.