What are your personal MUST HAVE Add-Ons/Accessories for your Slate?

[GeoLogic]

To be sure, I'm not calling those who actually do interesting things with a lifted 2WD vehicle a poseur, I'm calling Slate a poseur for offering all of these additions with zero capability to back it up. It's patronizing, and I resent it. And that's not even claiming the Slate will ever be a real off-road capable vehicle, even if they someday offer AWD. I simply maintain that you should back the look with some semblence of capability. I liken a tricked out RWD Slate as the equivalent of a hypothetical consumer RWD Hummer (just a lipstick-on-a-pig Chevy Tahoe, and at least the real pedestrian Hummer offers 4WD). Such a RWD vehicle has no practical purpose other than satisfaction of look-at-me vanity. Fine if something serves actual useful purpose, I just never responded well to show offs. I'm too logical, meticulous, and practical-- Perhaps even to a fault.

Anyway, I demand at least an AWD Slate, because I'll actually use it. So some of my disdain here is based on personal disappointment that they're not bothering to offer this from the beginning. Blah, blah, blah... "We want to keep costs down". Fine. Still offer the RWD vehicle, and quote that price all day long. Put it up in skywriting if you wish. But also offer reasonable AWD as an option in your lifted Slate with knobby tires, instead of just a pagentry parade of hollow appearances. Toyota went 4WD in '79: Slate can't do so 47 bloody years later? Common.

 

[slateya]

To be sure, I'm not calling those who actually do interesting things with a lifted 2WD vehicle a poseur, I'm calling Slate a poseur for offering all of these additions with zero capability to back it up. It's patronizing, and I resent it. And that's not even claiming the Slate will ever be a real off-road capable vehicle, even if they someday offer AWD. I simply maintain that you should back the look with some semblence of capability. I liken a tricked out RWD Slate as the equivalent of a hypothetical consumer RWD Hummer (just a lipstick-on-a-pig Chevy Tahoe, and at least the real pedestrian Hummer offers 4WD). Such a RWD vehicle has no practical purpose other than satisfaction of look-at-me vanity. Fine if something serves actual useful purpose, I just never responded well to show offs. I'm too logical, meticulous, and practical-- Perhaps even to a fault.

Anyway, I demand at least an AWD Slate, because I'll actually use it. So some of my disdain here is based on personal disappointment that they're not bothering to offer this from the beginning. Blah, blah, blah... "We want to keep costs down". Fine. Still offer the RWD vehicle, and quote that price all day long. Put it up in skywriting if you wish. But also offer reasonable AWD as an option in your lifted Slate with knobby tires, instead of just a pagentry parade of hollow appearances. Toyota went 4WD in '79: Slate can't do so 47 bloody years later? Common.

 

[Luxrage]

Give me a Slate flareside. 😈