Letas

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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
 

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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.
 

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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
 

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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.
 
 
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