Vingroup’s got you covered either way

Barely anyone needs that kind of range, and eventually the EV charging network will catch up that will make 500 mille range a ton of wasted battery and weight inefficiency. It’s like building cars with 30 gallon fuel tanks.

You just know that when the dust settles, the R2 is going to creep into the $60,000 range, meanwhile the R3 will be quietly cancelled and never spoken of again.

Has anyone actually SEEN a VinFast in the wild?

Still a tough sell, to be honest.  

What happens is the PTO engages while the truck is in motion and the driver doesn’t notice the empty bed slowly rising behind them. There’s supposed to be an interlock to prevent that, but...

Can’t you already buy a used Vinfast SUV for like $12? 

Personally, I’m REALLY looking forward to the Rivian R3. If the price is right, that’ll likely be my first EV. 

SAIL!

How do you not notice the bed is raised? I can tell when I have stuff strapped to the roof of my car, just by the way it handles. How can a driver haul off with their bed up and not notice the truck is handling squirrelly long before it plows into anything.

Whether it is worth it or not is entirely down to how much you fly. I make my living flying around the US. Some months I about live on airplanes. The value of status is not the perks, it’s the being reaccommodated FIRST when a trip goes sideways for whatever reason. The free tickets and upgrades are very secondary for…

Exactly. It’s become the 50 cent coupon off a 10 dollar thing.

This. I have 3 vehicles with the total horsepower of almost 1000hp and one might run a low 15 1/4 mile on a good day. A 300hp camry would feel like a rocket ship.

I’m usually pretty happy with 90ish. 

Man.... most people don’t NEED more than 200 - 300 HP on most cars (except for you fucks with giant ass SUVs and trucks carrying nothing but yourself, then you can go blame yourself for buying such a shitty unusable car for the 1% of the time that you actually need it)

British plumbing just is NOT up to that sort of thing. <eek>

(approaches bridge, realizes they are too high by like 5')

This is more Benny Hill’s Yakety Sax, IMO.

My mother had the same van when I was in high school, and if I remember correctly, the unlock sequence being like this was intended for parents looking to put their children in the vehicle with one click, and not having the other side of the vehicle unlocked as a safety feature while in parking lots