Apparently sometime this summer a pipe broke, flooding my crawlspace and exploding my furnace. I didn’t find this out until I turned on my heat 3 days before a big cold front moved in....and guess who didn’t have to deal with calling the plumber and the furnace guy and pay “the furnace guy was down there until 9 pm”…

I only use a debit card and don’t understand the rationale behind the “never use a debit card” advice.

alternatively, someone is letting you know that “ok” is potentially dismissive, and you’re going to complain about it. There aren’t rules - there’s just the way certain people receive something. 

And if you’re a woman, your work e-mail has to strike a very delicate, near-impossible balance between “friendly” and professional. Too light of a tone, and you’re not taken seriously because you’re a flighty woman. Write in a matter-of-fact way that’s similar to your male colleagues, and you’re a joyless ballbuster.…

So the fenders and bed sides are welded to the cab? It’s like he’s trying to make body repair as expensive as possible.

lol, the more i look at it, the less i love it. now i’m starting to see the lack of bed tie downs, the lack of bed access, the pinch points around the rear tail gate i know i’m going to lose a couple shirts to while helping move couches, and i can already hear the complaints from other guys trying to stuff themselves…

That was my first thought as well. This thing, if it ever comes out, won’t look anything like this. It would never be certified.

That picture confuses the living bajezus out of me. Like, what the hell are we actually looking at here?

You: Talks about cars and the things that could prevent interesting designs from ever seeing the road because of bureaucratic concerns.

It looks like shit.

The design isn’t jarring sensibilities, its idiotic.

Have you noticed how few Ridgelines are on the road?

Woah woah woah, the whole structure of the truck is just that outer shell? That can’t be right. Not only is that a terrible idea, but those huge expanses of totally flat panels is literally the weakest shape they could choose. It would crumple like a biscuit tin in any kind of accident. It would never pass crash regs.

It would be like bitching that you can’t get a 4x8 sheet of plywood in the back of an Escalade.

I think you missed the part about why the metal is so thick - the truck doesn’t sit on a frame, the sides ARE the frame. That’s actually pretty brilliant if it works, since they aren’t wrong about the frame being one of the heaviest parts of any given vehicle, and serving no real purpose except to hold everything else…

The design is what people in the 80's thought was futuristic. 

“That picture on top there is from a 1978 issue of Penthouse, and I didn’t find it in a soggy pile by a mattress in the woods”

My first thought was pedestrian safety concerns, too.

Setting aside the PS1 design ethic, there’s a more obvious problem that I’ve not seen anyone address. The Whole Vehicle Type Approval system, the NHTSA and Euro-NCAP will never certify that truck with the exterior design it has right now. There are force limits for pedestrian impacts, and that front light bar / hood…

Can we talk about how in his attempt to unnecessary re-invent the pickup truck Musk unintentionally stole from Sabre’s attempt to unnecessarily reinvent the phone?