To each their own.

Hey Rivian.

Having owned many manual cars I get the dynamics of selecting your own gears. However, it is mostly unnecessary, in fact it is often annoying for daily use such as picking up the kids, or commuting to and from the office. If your vehicle has some type of track or performance purpose, I get that you may have to pull…

To me, badge-engineering, a.k.a. a dolled-up version of a cheaper car isn’t luxurious.

I loved this truck, and still do today. Had it been available with 4WD, many of its perceived sins would have been forgiven. Given how rare these are, I’d hate to see one be chopped up, but I’d love to see it grafted to a factory F-150 4x4 drivetrain and chassis. 

I’m truly excited about the future of EVs. I just don’t find that there is a need to be an early adopter. For my needs and peace of mind, there isn’t a suitable EV that would provide me what I need without sacrifice. However, I do get that some use cases are already optimized for an EV. I’m just not one of those…

Understood. 

Cool, so when charging stations are as ubiquitous as gas stations and charge times are on par or better than fill-up times, then EVs for all make more sense. 

This is good news. Look forward to this. 

I’m interested in learning more about how this works. I had no idea. 

So I’ve heard. Also, batteries don’t degrade and they’re not affected by temperature.

Thank you for your perspective.

You’re a ray of sunshine!

You’re so right. They look fantastic. I’m not a Buick guy, but that car should have been a hit. If it were RWD and LS powered, I could have converted to Buick. 

I mean, EVs are cool, but how do you fill one up at an Exxon station in 10 minutes so you can continue your road trip?

The perfect answer for a question no one has asked. 

Pre-pandemic, most commodity vehicles had money on the hood. Between incentives, rebates, factory-to-dealer incentives, etc. MSRPs were kind of optimistic. I think there is already a bonus margin built into that number.

Yes, I’m willing to wait for the car we want because the used market is straight up kooky dooks. I feel lucky to pay MSRP seeing that the same dealer is selling “used” ones with <200 miles for $15k more.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

That’s a quandary, for sure.