+1'd because I spent ages 3-10 in the jump seats of an 82 S-10. 

You know that and I know that, but the Toxic Masculinity crowd has FICO scores in the 700 range.

That’s the truth of Amaricn culture in general.

Right, quick acceleration as a byproduct of being able to tow a brick shit house is great.

You’re right, thats not good way to describe what I was thinking.

Yes and no.

because down with innovation and progress.

I do know that for years people said you couldn’t build EVs and that no one would buy them,

Right, becoming Amazon’s internal vehicle supplier / brand* is one of the ways it goes gang busters.

Yeah, that’s what I was getting at.

Has Amazon committed  to funding it through production? Or did they just throw some pocket change at the project in the hope in might yield some results?

That $700 million will get them to a production ready design, maybe.

There is going to be a strong market for this, if they execute it well.

$500 is the stated rule.

So they were copying the Germans?

I say take the opportunity to experience something different:

Dealers can be required to have a minimum number of slow selling models to get access to the high margin vehicles.

Have you ridden one that’s been properly set up? A buddy of mine has been into them for ~10 years and tells me most of the ones out there are set up wrong. I guess most people aren’t willing to make the permanent changes to the bike to make them work well.

This information is readily available on Caucasian Google (I think it’s called “Bing.”)

there exist zero other EV manufacturers that can build cars PROFITABLY at Tesla’s price points.