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Slate will offer a high roof cargo version of its compact pickup – and you can buy it! (electrek.co)
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[–] 21 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Bezos-backed Slate Auto...that's a offput.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (16 children)

    The problem here is that unless you pull off the most insane kickstarter in history, these type s of developments cannot be funded by anyone else than billionaires and megacorps, with the exception of states, like Mexico's pickup.

    Designing a thing like this can probably be pulled off by a small team of engineers and designers, but the whole production, safety testing, distribution etc is just not doable.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    Ford is coming out with an EV truck at pretty much the same price point as Slate. Idk who is going to buy a bozo mobile when they can get a Ford for the same price.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    fords are dogshit lmao, they only still exist because gm is somehow worse

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    GM's are repairable. The insane engineering decisions Ford has been making are negativity impacting the repairability of their vehicles and their quality issues are well documented.

    In fact, bad news:

    https://www.motorbiscuit.com/fords-radical-fix-for-its-quality-crisis-ai-driven-daily-engine-teardowns/

    Ford has 153 recalls in 2025 alone, and they're going to use AI to fix it! Yay?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They're both dogshit bro just buy an asian car, you'll realize owning a car doesn't have to be so crazy difficult.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    I've probably owned more imports than domestics, they've all got their quirks. My 89 GMC had manual windows and an ice cold AC and to this day remains the vehicle that gave me the least trouble out of all of them throughout the years because it was so easy to work on. I regret selling it sometimes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    GM is having to recall over a million trucks for new motors, and already the replacement motors are breaking.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Ford makes reliable trucks now? Didn't they invent plastic oil pans and EcoBoom motors?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Plastic oil pans aren't that bad as long as you have a proper undertray. Had one in my C-class when I still had money to drive a nice car. It's just weight savings because of emissions regulations.

    I'm much less fond of plastic valve covers in most modern engines, those tend to start leaking much faster, I've got a car with only 415k km that already has a leak from the plastic valve cover. Not an issue I've had with metal ones usually.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Ford has telemetry spying and insurance data selling. I'm not buying any new car with all that garbage. They also patented self driving features that will immobilize your car or drive it back to the dealer if you miss payments. Screw ford.

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