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Even the lowest factory suspension will probably have more clearance than my Green Bay winter beater Miata had. Slate also actually has a lot of potential for really fun handling too. If they manage to not screw that up, especially meaning decent steering, decent strut geometry, and driver...

Let's be clear here though. Sure plenty of engines are capable of achieving unnecessarily (from a manufacturer perspective) high mileage... But all of that moving part longevity comes at a not insubstantial lifetime preventative maintenance cost. BMW has some of the neediest engines I've...

Modern ICE cars can be nearly as quiet to pedestrians as EV's in many low speed circumstances, and even quieter than is being required of EV's despite the 'safety' reasons. Either ICE sounds are sufficiently safe and EV's shouldn't be required to be any louder than the quietest EV cars, and it...

Ironically, nobody seems to be worried about the integrity and longevity of the door seals on their current cars. Same technology.

Basically, those can all be grouped into the 2 main demographics I see for this... Those young enough to find the 80's vibes retro-cool and those old enough to find the 80's vibes nostalgic... Nicely book-ending the demographic with young kids in car seats, most of whom this would not be a great...

That's certainly a valid concern. It may be less about preventing any water from getting in, than about preventing most water from getting in and making sure the rest has a desirable path out.

Road forces are inherently transmitted to the driver through a hydraulic rack assist, but can be engineered out with varying degrees of success. Road forces are inherently isolated from the driver through an electric rack assist, but can be engineered in with varying degrees of success. Across...

Exactly. That's why the old Hotchkiss (live axle on leafs) setups pretty much always tend to one-wheel-peel with decent power applied to open diff. Getting into 3 and 4 link setups with more advanced geometries can also mitigate this though. Bolting the differential to the chassis in front...

If it can seep for a decade without affecting function, it's just adding corrosion protection... That's a feature, not a bug. LOL

While EPS 'can' have acceptably good feel and feedback, in practice such setups are the minority and typically relegated to traditional sporty cars rather than trucks and/or EV's. So statistically speaking, there is more reason to expect the EPS to be not-good than be good from a driver...

Despite the 'one wheel drive' jokes, an open diff applies the same torque to the tire that grips as is being reacted (pushing forward) by the ground on the tire that slips. What people notice most is that the excess torque beyond that just goes into the slipping tire. Thankfully the Slate is not...

That depends. How many people do you know with 8" wide butts?

Seats: I didn't spend enough time to tell if I particularly dislike them, but did spend enough time to tell that I didn't particularly like them. The best seats (car, couch, cycle, etc) maintain equal comfort the whole time seated. Getting more comfortable the longer you're in it is almost as...

Rather than starting a new thread, I'll just consolidate my thoughts from the event here too. Sorry for any basically repeated pics or info, but I wrote this up to share elsewhere too. I just spent a little time getting hands on with a Slate. Unfortunately no engineer's were present. On...

To keep this going... I've been following this produce since launch and see a lot of potential in this nifty little electric truck. I'm in early consideration stages for a not-boring runabout to compliment my F150, and this definitely seems to be a contender. There can't be many other people...