Just reserved spot 3,575 -- 2 minutes after reading your pinned tweet with the specs.
I drive a 2018 Honda Fit with a CVT (I would have opted for a manual trans but it was a gift from my mom). I keep the rear seats layed flat and a 4x6' carpet bedliner on top. I treat it like a truck. If it fits, I drive the Fit. I have never owned a truck, and that's because like your marketing rightly points out, they just don't make them like they used to (at least not in the US).
I'm 28 years old and from San Diego, but moved to Knoxville, Tennessee three years ago. My poor Honda's shocks and struts get bullied by the roads here; it makes me feel like I have to drive a literal tank just to get around. That or buy a truck... But not a newer, oversized and overpriced monstrosity for $50k+.
If I could import a $15k-25k Toyota Hilux Champ from Japan/Mexico and legally drive it here, I would do it in a heartbeat. But I can't. They could build them here, but the Chicken Tax wouldn't allow it to be priced competitively, and even then the margins would be abysmal compared to selling you a loaded Tundra.
What is a man to do? Buy a used '90s Tacoma or Ranger with an engine that outlives the rusting frame and ripped seats for $10k? That isn't my idea of a good deal either.
Building your trucks here in America while meeting the safety and emissions requirements the federal government has laid out, and doing it profitably, is no small feat at your target price.
So, I wanted to personally write this message to thank you for striving to create something like this for the American people. Your vehicles will sell, once people learn they exist. As long as they are reliable, affordable, and capable, they will sell.
I'm excited to see what it looks like soon. Hopefully you and Tesla can conquer the industry here for the better, electric or not. I'd love to come work for you guys in Texas, too. I didn't see a careers page, any chance I can send in my résumé?
Best of luck and I can't wait to learn more as the time comes. America needs you guys.
@s8mb Europeans are constrained by their government's desire for regulation and control, which precludes any possibility of creating a frontier lab--hence why there are precisely zero.
The problem isn't the food is bad, the food is good, the food is fucking great actually, the problem is it's homogenized.
You used to go to a little restaurant in some small mountain town, 80% of the menu would be pretty shit, but you could tell from the Google reviews there were one or two things which were actually pretty nice, you ordered them, it would be like nothing you've ever had before, and they were fucking great.
Now it is the same set of universally palatable inoffensive pretty good food.
The overall standard for basically everything you get is much higher, at the cost of basically nothing you get being exceptional.
Nothing being memorable.
Nothing being so good you road trip back years later because you literally can't stop thinking about it.
That's best case scenario, worst case scenario is you have one too many things which are clearly just reheated frozen shit, and then when you have that same thing in a different restaurant, even heated properly, it's still going to remind you of the first time you had what tastes literally identical but prepared terribly
@uptowndonkey0@UnbendableStraw Sorry for the late response on this. No. I had to turn off Advanced Data Protection on my iPhone to get the HomePod past the 'Setup Failed (-7003)' error.
@uptowndonkey0@UnbendableStraw I think this may have happened to my first gen. Is there any way to tell? It's been stuck on this since trying to reset.