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I abandoned Facebook in the early 2010s after I split with my then-girlfriend, as talking to her during non-date hours was the main reason I was maintaining it and I've never been one for social media. Ended up being a good thing, as I found at my first real career job that the employees would...

Interesting hole in the back of the cab, if that's a ski/long pipe pass-through I'll be very pleased.

I'll be curious how stiff the ride is going to be. I remember the rear end of our family's '99 Ranger Flareside rear hopping on particularly nasty bits of road construction on the Chicago Skyway.

A real minor footnote but I've started seeing Slate ads on YouTube on a computer that I can't put an adblock on. Just small corner ad above the recommended videos. Was served it while watching some random automotive content:

The bottom of the Iron website is also (C) 2035 for some reason. But yeah, the entire thing is AI slop top to bottom. Most of the pictures look like they just kept asking the image generators for Slate colored Toyota T100s.

All I see from that clip is you can turn off the traction assist and that's exactly what I wanna see. Spent my formative years with my big V8 RWD Thunderbird terrorizing local parking lots every time it snowed and I'm happy to do the same with the Slate.

Assuming the future owner has to plug in some sort of connector for the roll-bar's side curtain airbags. I don't think it would be difficult for slate to just incorporate an extra plug for a high-mount taillight at the top of that roll bar. And if they have the full topper, they just plug that...

I asked Slate about this a while back and they gave me a reply that there's only a single bulb on each taillight for a typical combined brake / turn signal. Annoying as that is, I hope they do eventually give us an alternative or someone comes up with one.

This, one of the things we always tell people coming into the tuning/mod scene in our group is 'It really helps if you to like the car unmodified before you start modifying it.'

I was looking at how some other OEMs did their 'full-glass upper half' rear hatches and it seems like all of them have just the latch on the glass and the entirety of the locking mechanism built into the tailgate. I hope slate is looking at how to get that integrated into the drop-down tailgate...

Haha, definitely know you're in the same area as me without looking at your location. As soon as I saw Kwik Kar, I was like aw hell no. The Kwik Kar in my town isn't even one of the partnered ones, it was showing the Van Alstyne location. Makes me even more leery than I already was of our local...

I've been a follower of RcR for years (I've got a car in one of his videos way back in 2018), and I'm glad he's enthusiastic about it. He mentioned 25K as the price point, and I hope that they do keep it around there. Another point he brings up is that the horsepower numbers seem low, but in a...

I'm still looking forward to when we start getting the final concepts nailed down and people get to start doing test drives. My beater daily is getting more and more battered by the horrible roads and weather here. It's reliable but I'd really like to replace it before it goes. Keep waiting to...

I spent most of my life in Chicago where we got that thick, dense snow that stuck to everything. Leaving a car parked for a while in a heavy snow would end up with a good pile on any flat surface. On the plus side it made for great snowballs / snowmen.

I know Rivians and Jeeps have this problem. Cybertrucks do as well but it's somewhat of a separate problem with the 'shelf' design of the bumper under the headlights. They sell headlights with heater strips built in that are supposed to work for Jeeps, if these are 'off the shelf' I wonder if we...