A polished turd no less!
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They truly are fuck ugly. Even if Musk wasn't a POS, I'd never even consider one.
Looks like a Unity asset for a copper ingot. Probably about as useful too.
You should look into the Slate electric trucks.
Small electric trucks/SUVs that are intended to be very cheap and barebones stock, but also very modular and very upgradeable, so you add the features you want. Including it being pretty much a given that you're going to wrap it in the colors of your choice.
They're not on the market yet, but I have high hopes.
I really, really, don't like Bezo's involvement in the company, but if it actually comes to market, isn't a POS, and ends up as the only EV that isn't spyware on wheels it'll have my attention for sure.
The big thing is the (supposed) mid-$20k base price. Exact pricing hasn't been announced yet (and seems likely to increase, what with tariffs and unpredictable AI-based electronic component shortages). But if they actually do manage to bring a small, practical electric truck to market for, say, $27,000 and they can actually produce them at scale so there isn't a years-long waiting list to get one...
Well, that will be a big deal, I think.
And, yeah. Doesn't seem like it will be spyware on wheels, since it doesn't even come with an infotainment system. You're meant to mount your own phone or tablet to the dash instead. Those, of course, have their own spyware issues. But you could always just not do that if you're worried about your privacy -- you'd have no nav and no music, but also no spyware. Or just use an old tablet that doesn't have an internet connection or something.
I have legit thought about just bringing an old school "boombox" style stereo into the car. I got one a couple of years ago for like $60 and aside from the cassette and radio, it can be connected to with aux and bluetooth, so that would be a slightly hilarious way to play music in the car.
That's not really far off from what Slate themselves are offering.
One of the sound system options is literally just a bluetooth speaker box that you attach to the bottom of the dashboard.
Unfortunately owned by Bezos...
Just jumping from one fascist company to another.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
If you want to drive a car at all, you're going to end up supporting some huge corporation. And pretty much all huge corporations are at least somewhat friendly towards fascism.
(When an open source car project that anyone can build and make parts for gets off the ground, let me know. I'll be the first in line. Until then...)
you sorta have to do them up, or they start coming apart at the seams
You could do that with any car. Like, one that actually works.
Not to be a nerd but the frame (edit: unibody actually) is cast aluminum, they just glue bits on top
I'm gonna get so much pussy in this.
-Every new cyberturd driver
"It's sunburst orange!" -Clarkson
sometimes when I come across a tesla while on foot I do a quick ”roman” salute, with 2 fingers on the philtrum for the stache
I just want everyone to feel welcome
Now that's what I call a garbage truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3bGnw0Mf0&t=45s
Edit for description: reminded me of when Jimmy Yang also compared it to a dumpster in one of his bits about the tarriffs
Man Unreal’s texture pop in keeps getting worse.
It is interesting to see the different paint jobs these people come up with.
I saw one on the freeway a few months ago that was literally a mirror. An iridescent rainbow mirror. It was so distracting I think it should have been illegal, hubble-telescope-caliber spotless immaculate reflections of all the cars & lights & road & sky. It was quite distracting and was holding up traffic until each car driver eventually snapped out of their hypnotic awe and passed the bugger.
And that's why we have car insurance - you could have put everyone out of their misery by crashing into it
Oof I'd leave that martyr shenanigan to someone else. My vehicle is everything to me and I would never intentionally damage it.
Yeah, I know there's a lot of flimsy assumptions behind the sentiment...
Curious question, though: is your vehicke important because of what it enables (maybe lifestyle or just a car-oriented city) or is it a status symbol or some core part of why you are (are you a driver or something?)
Its odd to me one would be so important but I've always ridden bikes as well as seeing them as a tool and been fortunate to live in a small city with token public transport, so I'm just on a different part of the spectrum, really...
I live in a 10 ft tall Mercedes Sprinter RV conversion. It is my entire life and my home. I live at the beach (or wherever the heck I want), I can wake up every morning at whatever appointment or job I have on any given day, I can travel anywhere I want and I never have to get a hotel because I'm always home, I don't have to pay rent, mortgage, or utilities, I love this lifestyle and if anything ever happens to this van then I will buy another one and continue living like this by choice because this is my favorite lifestyle I've ever had in my entire life. And I have 3 bicycles too 😄
I don't see the appeal of cars in general, but this is particularly ugly.
It looks like what you see on a PlayStation 2 game if you're far away enough from the objects to trigger the low poly LOD version.
This sub literally just posting people's shit and other people's shit...
Looks at sub name
... I'll see myself out.

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