Place Your Bets! (actual blank Slate starting price contest)

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Agree with the "rotted in a field" comment, but Tesla do that also, esp. for Cybertrucks.
A pile of cars spend a month or more rotting on a boat, in salt-water!. Some even sink!

The fires? change the battery, stop fixating on range, problem will not go away, but ICE cars also have fires (nasty ones) so it will even out in a bit.

I was stuck in traffic once, many years ago, a Bug (yes a real one) caught fire on the bridge over the rarirtan in NJ, I sat there, couple hours, got to work late, I got reamed.

Then about half the other folk also turned up late, and I got a mild apology.

True and i bet that bug had the original air cooled engine nasty thing that

 

[Paul Rodgers]

oh yes, it was one of those definitely.
Small oil leak, collects in the drip-pan under the motor, touch of a tiny gas leak? gets hot, exhast gets hotter

Ooomph, gone in 60 seconds

Still, I really liked that car, simple, sturdy, never stuck as long as tires were not bald.
Even in snow, just put 2-3 bags of salt in the back, your OK!
Rebuilt a few, including a van once. If I had limitless $ it would be an OLD VW combie, with the splittie windshield.
It was not worth it, rough, rusty, rattled. Something fell off every other mile.

Somehow though, these are the ones you remember.
Not the Toyota-Corolla, Ford-Tempo, 3 separate minivans, etc.

Though I DO REMEMBER the Ford Mercury Cougar from about 1982 that could not climb the hill on I80 out of NJ any faster than about 45mph

SO? what cars do you-all remember fondly, (i.e. you liked them, good or bad)

Me? only 2
1) 1984 Isuzu Trooper. The only vehicle my baby daughter would sleep in.
When Mum got desperate I'd put her in the car-seat and do a few laps.
It ate 3 distributors in 200k miles.

2) 1962 triumph bonneville, first vehicle I had that would break 100. Easily.
but even with fancy tires it could not keep up with a Norton 600SS.

May the Slate have these memories!

 

[sodamo]

Of course my 1960 VW Bug, 65 Corvair Monza, 70 GTO, both my MGBs, wife’s 76 Toyota pu, ‘96 Wrangler with back no seat, dedicated to the dogs, 96 MB S Class 500 long body was a great ride. Lots of others including handful of pickups, but nothing that heart stirring, but some good solid vehicles and some I’d just as soon forget.

 

[Felix M.]

I'm going with $25,995.

 

[Paul Rodgers]

OK, everyone, including me, are under 30k.
I just wish this were a bar where I could pin the $100 bill above the register.

2024: predicted 20k, with the EV credit, i.e. 27.5k for-real.
2025 4% inflation, that takes it to 28.6k
factory comes online, July-4-2026, another 6% inflation (thanks Mr T)
3% for 6 months, that brings it to about 29.5K

So? my prediction, 29,999 no so far off
I wonder how I ever got to that number?

Mine? will be in 2027, probably well over $33k
I shall still buy it, gray plastic and all!

 

[AZFox]

I think the 27.5k is supposed to include projected inflation generally, and tariffs specifically.

Somehow I got the impression that the original target price was $25K and it was boosted to $27.5K at the last minute before launch.

 

[Paul Rodgers]

Sorry to rain on the parade, but Bullshit!
20k was a way to get a wake-up-call out to the buying public.

And it did. We all read it, looked, and salivated.

but 30k, which is what will get delivered, (if we are lucky) is not so great.
Slate, 20k, at my local dealer? I would drive one, then buy it for cash tomorrow.

So Slate? how to cut the dealer out? without alienating the buyers.

 

[cvollers]

OK, everyone, including me, are under 30k.
I just wish this were a bar where I could pin the $100 bill above the register.

2024: predicted 20k, with the EV credit, i.e. 27.5k for-real.
2025 4% inflation, that takes it to 28.6k
factory comes online, July-4-2026, another 6% inflation (thanks Mr T)
3% for 6 months, that brings it to about 29.5K

So? my prediction, 29,999 no so far off
I wonder how I ever got to that number?

Mine? will be in 2027, probably well over $33k
I shall still buy it, gray plastic and all!

Hmmm. Should price guesses be in 2025 dollars, not late 2026 dollars?

 

[Paul Rodgers]

I'm assuming 2027 dollars

 

[cvollers]

I'm assuming 2027 dollars

But is that also what Slate is doing?

 

[Paul Rodgers]

Nope, slate was trying for 2025 $$, with the 7500 rebate.
Maybe they should wait until 2028?

 

[Doctors Do Little]

Nope, slate was trying for 2025 $$, with the 7500 rebate.
Maybe they should wait until 2028?

No, dammit. I want what I want when I want it! I paid my $50, and I want it. We'll have flying cars in 2028.

 

[Paul Rodgers]

maybe, but a flying car will cost upward of 100-200k (in 2028 $), too rich for an old guy on SS who just wants to run to Home-Depot.

You cant build a factory in a weekend, even after you build it you cant bring it online in under 3 months. Not even the original Henry Ford, and he was brutal, did not mess with anyone, and did not have the monster bureaucratic oversight Slate must contend with.

So, it'll be a while, and then they will have a backlog of a years worth of orders.
Folks, I hope I am wrong, really do, but 2027 is earliest I can see them shipping significant numbers.

Me? I hope for Santa to bring me mine, Xmas, 2027
Do they have a "sleigh" wrap?

 

[Doctors Do Little]

maybe, but a flying car will cost upward of 100-200k (in 2028 $), too rich for an old guy on SS who just wants to run to Home-Depot.

You cant build a factory in a weekend, even after you build it you cant bring it online in under 3 months. Not even the original Henry Ford, and he was brutal, did not mess with anyone, and did not have the monster bureaucratic oversight Slate must contend with.

So, it'll be a while, and then they will have a backlog of a years worth of orders.
Folks, I hope I am wrong, really do, but 2027 is earliest I can see them shipping significant numbers.

Me? I hope for Santa to bring me mine, Xmas, 2027
Do they have a "sleigh" wrap?

You can do whatever wrap you desire, Mr. Rodgers. I'm gunning for Christmas 2026, because, see above...I'm a child, right?

 

[Paul Rodgers]

Yee-Ha, lets hope your stocking is full on Xmas morning!
Maybe I need to see if Amazon can send me a really big stocking?
I've been ever so good this year Santa!