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What's your hypothesis regarding why no new small pickups exist?

Thanks for posting, @jwocky. These always are fun. Especially when people notice things that are easy to miss, which seems to happen every time. :) I see a fuse access panel I've never noticed before. Also the wheels are the original non-vented type. The spoiler is missing. Have all of the...

Saw an article I had missed in Slate's listing of articles. Does this Car & Driver article remove any remaining doubts?

If the projected price was (just under) $17,500 after incentives they would have said that. Instead, Slate published on their website headlines with the $20,000 price.

Here's a bullet point from an article about the skunkworks that's linked from that article: Ford will bolster future Model e EV business unit profits by selling more aftermarket software and services to customers. Yikes. Let's hope Slate Auto doesn't go anywhere near this route for bolstering...

It's what any random article said. Because that's what writers were told. By Slate representatives. See also Slate's website. Edit: Mobile version

Those stinkers! 🦨💨👃

Almost certainly they are. Hence the Bluetooth steering wheel buttons. Same.

The Internet remembers. Search and ye shall find. https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/slate-truck-know-low-cost-080815456.html The Slate Truck is a simple, electric vehicle made in the United States, with an expected price of just under $20,000, according to its website. Slate Auto...

Maybe attach a lanyard to a "Seatbelt Cutter and Window Breaker" and hang it from your turn indicator. Edit: Mine's spring-loaded with a hardened pointed striker. Keep out of reach of children!

I saw a Craigslist ad with a Jeep that has a similar cover to the one Einer made for me (story below). Mine covered the cab of my Convertible S-10, but it's the same idea.

This is a good observation, and I agree. I just want to point out something in case it's non-obvious. This is according to Natural Law: Market pricing is ultimately is determined by "what the market will bear", not cost of goods sold. Put another way, If Slate's costs go up or down it may...

It's not pessimism, it's observance with some real-world experience mixed in. 've negotiated prices more that most people have because I bought and sold literally millions of dollars worth of goods as a Sole Proprietor of a business for over a decade. Spending Your Own Money (not OPM) tends to...

I'd appreciate if someone can find where she said $25K because I've only seen "mid twenty thousands" and the $27,499 figure that are supposed to be the same thing as one another.

I think it was supposed to be in all new vehicle by MY2027 (or calendar year 2027, maybe). The NHTSA was given three years to "issue a final rule". That time period ended November of last year and it apparently hasn't happened yet. I don't know much about it, other than getting the heeby...

This. They were saying "mid-twenties" and "just under 20K with the incentive" at the same time. It's the kind of thing I notice.

Remember Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, on public radio? Their personal make-up artist was Bud Tugly. Apparently Bud is working in a skunkworks at Ford now. That looks like a Bud Tugly design to me.

Maybe that's the Ford Skunkworks you're smelling.

I asked two AI bots about the mandatory DUI kill switch law. Here's my query: Did the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act include a law that mandates vehicles to detect driver impairment? My wording wasn't so great now that I look at it, but it gets the point across. The first AI bot played...