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Wait a minute! Somethings wrong here... BEVs are supposed to have invisible door handles that you need a PhD to operate. Go back to the drawing board Slate. You totally missed that part!

It's been my observation that Slate is doing a masterful job of keeping potential customers engaged. Way better than any other OEM I've dealt with over the last 50 years. They have a staff that answers questions in hours. They put out a series of fun little video shorts. They're doing tours...

I have always washed my trucks once each decade. My Slate I think once each century. It's a truck. Let it fade. Let it crack. Let it look like 1,000 angry cats used it as a scratching post. Because it's a truck. Not a Corvette.

>> Before kids, and in northern Wisconsin, my primary car for a few years was a Miata. From 1991 to 2001, I daily drove a Miata in all weather conditions, in both Arkansas and Massachusetts. I used to take that thing, on summer tires, cross country on unplowed back roads for a twenty minute...

The beautiful thing about time is that it inevitably passes. And after it does, we all see with perfect clarity who was "full of it" and who wasn't. Usually, when I look back at my predictions, I was the one "full of it". Oh wait, I got that wrong. Usually, almost everyone was "full of it". And...

Most Americans learn about a vehicle from... The salesman on the dealership lot Ads - online or television Media - car sites, etc Friends and family I don't think Slate will be advertising until they have a demand < production issue. They don't have salespeople. And friends who want to...

Don't read this post wrong. I'm a Slate fanboy. Not trolling the product or the company in any way. But I'm also solidly connected to reality... "Show me the money, Jerry! Show me the money!" Until I have a binding contract in my hands and product for sale, it's all empty promises. Slate, Ford...

I don't know if this is feasible from a manufacturing viewpoint. But it would be cool if, down the road a few years, Slate offered differently stained body color panels. Then, instead of wrapping, customers could swap panels. So I could buy a dark red stained thermoplastic Slate. And you could...

If I'm being honest, 99.999% of my days are less that 50 miles round trip. And we have a second ICE CUV for longer trips. So I should rationally want the smaller, lighter, less expensive battery. Soooo... Of course I want the bigger battery.

At the Slate intro event they stated (slated?) that the minimum bed width would be 50 inches. So no need for the Maverick halfway down gate feature. I have a Maverick, and I've used that feature a few times. Because the min bed width on the Maverick is much smaller. A few things I do love about...

Most important statement in the video... "These will be all over Southern California, for sure". Yup. They just need to make the roof panel removable and it'll become a cult car like the original VW Bus (which I owned).

One thing's for sure. Everyone at Slate will be watching the Ford presentation on 11 August.

I always qualify that statement. For me it's "This is why I'll buy a Slate truck - unless something more desirable comes out by 2027". Important to leave some wiggle room. BTW, on yesterday's Autoline sponsor segment - where patrons get to pose questions - I asked if Slate was a potential...

We had a RAV42 door back in the day. Loved that car. If ours had been a convertible, we would have never sold it. Yes, they actually sold a RAV4 two door convertible. Only for a few years. Very rare. Very choppy ride on that short wheelbase, but AWD and a manual transmission.

That makes me think that a bench seat might help with the USA population crisis. We are not bearing children at the required 2.3 children per female to maintain population. Our population is only growing via immigration. I have a funny feeling a Slate available with a bench seat and purchased...

I think a really good insight into AWD vs RWD isn't really whether you or I want one. It's looking at what is getting purchased by the greater public at large. Vehicles are often about wants, not needs. To illustrate what I mean, you can go to Cars.com and ask to see all new Mavericks listed...

When I look at the Slate, especially the future AWD version, I see the perfect dune buggy. So my first favorite accessory would be to redesign the roof to be removable. My second favorite accessory would be a 1/2 extended cab. By that I mean make a gear locker that can replace the panel below...

The newer the generation, the more likely it is that large numbers of them will never get a driver's license. This is already a phenomenon in major urban areas. I know this is a provocative thing to say, and I offer no evidence to support it - but I strongly suspect that today's young children...

I always felt Jeep made a big misstep when they went with the Gladiator instead of the J6 concept. a few years back The J6 was too cool for school.

I did a few searches for keywords before posting this thread. I hope I didn't miss a thread that already suggests this. I've been thinking about the whole concept of buying a blank Slate, then accessorizing. I'm mildly troubled by the idea of all the original parts going into dumps all across...