Problems you are worried about Slate having with the production prototypes.

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I see so many post about how the market only wants big trucks and I don’t think that is true, the strick emission regulations and chicken law forced trucks to get bigger and bigger and not because people wanted big trucks.
 
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Well, now we have a new worry. Is the new CEO gonna change Slate's business model? God I hope not.
 

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So what keeps you up at night?
People setting their Slate expectations way too high. My fear is that people are utterly unprepared for the corners that Slate is going to have to cut to put out the product they've promised at sub $30k. Though maybe I can help fund my own purchase by selling "I should have bought a Maverick" bumper stickers.
 

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I see so many post about how the market only wants big trucks and I don’t think that is true, the strick emission regulations and chicken law forced
Well, now we have a new worry. Is the new CEO gonna change Slate's business model? God I hope not.
dang that’s probably going to happen
 

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I see so many post about how the market only wants big trucks and I don’t think that is true, the strick emission regulations and chicken law forced trucks to get bigger and bigger and not because people wanted big trucks.
Well, we definitely know at least 180,000 people a year want a smallish truck, because that's how many Maverick and Santa Cruz together have been selling. Slate and maybe Telo will tell us what the market is for even smaller (184" and 152").
 
 
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