Rivian is 54" with tailgate closed, Gladiator is 60" with tailgate closed. Cybertruck actually has a 72" bed, but only at the floor. The back wall of the “cab” is overhung, so at the top of the bed the length is only 66".
The Cybertruck bed is also relatively narrow at 51", same as the Rivian. That being said, the Gladi…

Because it was only $100 and was, at the time, for a $40k truck. We have no metrics on the actual reservation attrition. It’s possible the vast vast majority of those reservations have already been refunded.

I’m willing to believe that the number was somewhere between 1M and 2M, for three reasons:
1) They promised a base price of $40k, making it competitive to other trucks, which are the best-selling market segment in the US
2) Reservations were open world wide, so it certainly includes Canadians and Europeans as well
3)…

They were coming in regularly, but they failed to set up equipment or bring in their own crafts that could track or follow the drones, which were apparently longer than a Chevy Tahoe?
Normally I’d be like “oh well obviously those are OUR drones that WE’RE testing, but the testing is obvious so they need a cover” but…

Also, revisiting this because “they don’t have anything to learn from their own design” is the most virulent possible cancer to the mindset of engineers. There is always something to learn by reviewing your own designs.

I thought someone had done a bad job of circling something in a screenshot with the microsoft snipping tool in that first picture of the interior.

Mine was totaled in an accident during the height of the COVID used car bubble. Almost paid $25k for a second gen, decided that $25k for a decade-old used car was insane and I needed to be getting something bigger and more interesting for that money and took a chance on a ZDX. I don’t regret the ZDX, in fact I adore…

First and Second Gen Acura TSX.
Extremely comfortable. Great to drive. Excellent 6-speed manual. Can get the second-gen in a wagon. Basic, clean styling that holds up today. Pinnacle of what made Honda/Acura famous for reliability (especially first gen). You can find them today dirt cheap, even in good shape.

I was the…

As an automotive engineer, we love getting “real world” vehicles back for review. That’s why every automaker puts hundreds of thousands of real-world miles on pre-production vehicles. You can design a truck to survive something like this and you can conduct ingress tests, salt-spray tests, impact and debris tests, the…

If I was Rivian, I’d scramble to buy back that guys truck, or trade him for a Gen 2. Not only are there potentially valuable engineering learnings, but I’d be eager to avoid the PR nightmare of this thing bursting into flame in a week because of damage no one spotted.

And if there’s nothing wrong with it, you can get…

The OTHER moral to this story is that, if you lanesplit or ride the shoulder through traffic... maybe keep that shit to <15mph above the average pace of the traffic. You never know when a little brat will try to teach you a lesson.

Exactly, nobody got hurt- including myself. I was privileged to learn a very deep, valuable lesson and a great deal of humility without any real consequences. Very lucky, very formative. A single event that probably made me 20% less of a little entitled bastard, and certainly built some serious momentum in the right…

I’ve got a good one where I was both the instigator and 100% at fault. Let me explain...
For starters, I was 16 and had been driving for less than a year. I was a real shitass kid. Not only was I one of those little fucks that think they’re the paragon of wisdom and righteousness at 16, but I was also someone who…

I’ve seen it twice and heard about it. Phoenix area, so half of these people’s brains are heat-rotted like old plastic.
I suspect it’s something that started as a joke among people who knew better and got taken seriously by people who don’t.

I’ve seen it twice in Phoenix. Saw a Dodge Demon driver splash a couple quick trigger pulls onto the ground behind his car. Then, at a CostCo, I pulled up in time to hear the aftermath of someone in an S-class (maybe Maybach) arguing with the attendant about how “It’s a hundred degrees out, it’s already mostly…

Yeah I mean... I guess it at least doesn’t look like a Prius anymore?
But is that actually a good thing?

This thing looks like the ridiculous ride you lose to Big Mike in a pink-slip race at the beginning of a Need for Speed game’s story mode.

The people who really need to hear this are the asshats literally pouring gas onto the ground because they would rather commit environmental crimes than risk having a drop of low-octane swill touch their FiNe LuXuRy AuToMoBiLe

My old daily was a manual ‘05 Acura TSX. I loved how it drove and I was happy with its reliability, but it was totaled in late 2021 in an accident. My fiance and I were working on buying our first home so I wasn’t going to be able to finance a new car without affecting our pre-approval. Our mortgage broker told me I…

Negatory, captain. Rear side marker lights are red. White indicates direction of travel on the forward (or rear) face, but if you’re off to the side of the vehicle and can’t see the front (or rear) you can determine the orientation of the vehicle based on the color of the side marker lamps. FMVSS 108 Table I-a!

There are no regulations for side marker lamps on vehicles wider than 80 inches. The lamps you’re thinking of are clearance and identification lamps- the five lamps spaced 1-3-1 across the top front and top rear of commercial vehicles and oversized pickups.