Expected price now "Mid-Twenties" for Slate truck

[Letas]

Subarus have always been extremely piss poor in every regard and im sick of People pretending they aren't. Your experience doesnt surprise me.

Would love to see their actual CR reliability rating if Japanese manufacturer bias was removed....not that those ratings mean much

Subarus symmetrical AWD is fantastic for the price. I don’t think you can get a better new car for frequent snow driving than an Subaru, at least not under 50k.

Other than that? They’re fine. Cult following certainly helps their “positive” status

 

[SlatePossible2028]

And they come with radios!
Don’t say that too loud on this forum. Evidently we have the world’s largest population of local mulch delivery drivers here. Where the slate just happens to meet their needs perfectly, and no other car will do.

I agree with you and I disagree with you. Pardon my long-windedness.

On one hand, yeah there is a lot of denial about the market with this. The people who whine that used truck prices are too high are the same that whine when you present them with an ACTUAL work truck, as in a cloth seat, plastic clipboard center console '03 F150 with dip spit on the dash and body rust. Same goes for the mulch stuff. "MILLIONS MUST HAUL MULCH!" i throw bags of gravel and mulch in the trunk of my Grand marq if need be, any regular truck can do that. Its eerily similar to the "WE MUST HAUL PLYWOOD IN KEI TRUCKS" that was so common for about 2 years.

At the same time, the Slate DOES have its place in the market. A compact electric truck that will likely still be sub 30k with the larger battery would absolutely kill the fleet and SXS markets, especially for urban stuff like autozones and the like.

But the marketing is all wrong. Slate is taking a barebones, crank windows, no features, made in the American midwest truck and marketing it to the most Oikophobic group of Americans for that possible, every bit of marketing seems to be aimed at upper middle class hipsters who apparently like their trucks debuting with flowers and artsy flair. They ran some commercial on Facebook the other day where it showed all the different fun purses you could fit in the center console. What? This is a CRANK WINDOWS TRUCK.

I want slate to do well. Im normally pretty right wing, dont agree with the ev credit cut, but I think it can still do well. The attitude and the marketing around it need to change.

 

[Paul Rodgers]

hey, Zipn, this is a very good point.
Take the external footprint for the "big" battery, stuff it with cheaper tech, save quite a bit of $$
Less range and probably more weight tho, but also less $, perhaps even last longer?
They are 6 months out from delivering anything real, that is enough time to re-engineer the pack

 

[hbuck]

$25,995 plus $995 delivery fee.

Won’t Amazon just deliver to one of their hubs free if you are a prime member?

 

[Letas]

Won’t Amazon just deliver to one of their hubs free if you are a prime member?

This is one of the worst rumors on here.... No

 

[hbuck]

Won’t Amazon just deliver to one of their hubs free if you are a prime member?

I posted it as a satirical comment. As Jeff will have lots of money invested in this and that free delivery could be a selling point after this loss of the tax credit.

 

[sodamo]

Won’t Amazon just deliver to one of their hubs free if you are a prime member?

That would be great

 

[DarkHorse]

I'm hoping they can deliver a blank slate for $25K. If they are $30K or more, then this Yugo with a bed will be DOA.

 

[E90400K]

I posted it as a satirical comment. As Jeff will have lots of money invested in this and that free delivery could be a selling point after this loss of the tax credit.

Jeff could give 1M Slate buyers a $7,500 discount and it would drop his net worth to $230B. He'd still have enough to retire on. Lol.

 

[cvollers]

Sorry to hear that., What did you think of the Subaru?

Is that a rhetorical question?

 

[cvollers]

I posted it as a satirical comment. As Jeff will have lots of money invested in this and that free delivery could be a selling point after this loss of the tax credit.

Bezos has invested about twice what he spent on his wedding. The one with the iron clad prenup.

 

[sodamo]

Bezos has invested about twice what he spent on his wedding. The one with the iron clad prenup.

one may be more beneficial (profitable) in the long run.

 

[AZFox]

I'm repeating myself here. Sorry. But even if it costs more than a loaded Maverick, I'll still buy it because having a drivetrain with 20-30 moving parts is worth more to me than a competitive price.

In my mind comparisons to a Maverick/Prius/Tesla are moot.

This.

If owning an inherently complex HEV or a Tesla that's jam-packed with electronics sounds great to you, Slate's unique proposition might not be your jam.

Reminds me of the comic strip that poked fun at what the car companies were offering.

"Belchfire Motors" would sell you a car with "all the luxury of a economy car and all the economy of an luxury car".

 

[cvollers]

one may be more beneficial (profitable) in the long run.

Let’s hope so. The marriage might have an easier exit strategy lol.

 

[AZFox]

You can find variety of vehicles that do what slate does

Really?