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I am more than happy with my 4.5 second Lightning’s acceleration.
I couldn’t handle my friend’s Tesla Plaid Model X—almost blacked out. Too many back and neck injuries.
Im sure people come on here and say the same thing these people are brainwashed by EV powertrains and the previous administration.
When in reality everything has to coexist. Or else Gas would get really expensive quickly. Or Electric prices would skyrocket for needing rapid expansion and upgrades to substations and other areas of the grid. I have an Uncle that works for an electric company. Who holds a pretty high position who is actually worried about the damage so far that these EV's have made for the grid and yet alone operating costs for the Energy Company.
I think I’ve posted this video before.
The 2022 Rivian R1T 4 Motor Launch Edition would still beat the new 2026 RAM TRX.
The Scout will be ridiculously quick.
I still don’t understand the “need” for this kind of speed in a pickup truck.
The 2022 Rivian R1T 4 Motor Launch Edition would still beat the new 2026 RAM TRX.
The Scout will be ridiculously quick.
I still don’t understand the “need” for this kind of speed in a pickup truck.
My husband and I had had similar conversations. We will see a car like that on the road and game out what we would do differently. The answer is we would still be driving to Meijer for groceries. The Supra is the most expensive car we have ever owned, and that was before they raised the price, and there are times I won’t take it places because I don’t want anything to happen to it or it to get dirty.
That sounds like my neighbor with the rolls royce, landrover, escalade, denali 3500, an what else that man has. He drives them each every week even with the wild nj weather
I think your sales figures for the TRX are off. Over 4,000 Final Editions were sold the last year of production. Total sales were over 10,000. Definitely a halo vehicle, though. It's not a stretch to say the Lighting was a failure. Ford lost money on every one they sold and sales were below projections. That doesn't mean the Lightning isn't a great vehicle. Not every automaker can absorb years of losses like Tesla did. I'm sure it wasn't an easy decision for Ford.
I keep telling myself $85K is my Scout cost and I keep trying to wrap that around my head as prior to Scout, most we ever spent was like $68k and that because I wanted my wife to treat herself because she works very hard and is our bread winner and she needed to treat herself for a change. Otherwise mid $50’s once or twice otherwise we tend to hang in the mid $40’s as we are frugal with most of our purchases-saving until we can get quality but not just throwing our money away. Short of a house the Scout will be most expensive purchase we’ve ever made
Perhaps I have the wrong numbers for the TRX, but it doesn’t matter if it was 10k or some other, similarly small number of units sold, it was still an unmitigated failure in sales numbers based on the same arguments made for the Lightning—the best selling EV pickup—being a "failure.”
The narrative of “they lost money on every vehicle sold” is a weird way of saying, “the initial capital investments were spent and they hadn’t yet achieved full payback on those investments.”
When Scout sells its first vehicle, it will have “lost" more than $5B on that one vehicle. The second one will bring the “losses" down to $2.5B.
20 gold bars, 20 gold bars…. Manifest damn it
And nobody will ever post it from that point of view which is completely true and factual.
The way I rationalize it is I will be keeping her for a long time like the Wrangler. My plan is 12 to 15 years so amortized over that length of time it’s not bad at all.
PBY, PBY, PBY. That’s my mantra till I either see PBY on one or see the available launch colors.
Someone will claim Scout Motors to be a failure when its first quarter delivery numbers are 3000 units and not 30,000 units. When it “only" sells 15,000 units in Year 1, people will be certain.
You should just plan to wrap yours as a back up plan
During the 1960’s in my tender teens I had an uncle who was a musician, folk singer/song writer. Blue Grass was all the rage and I asked him if he could play Blue Grass. He said; “I’d like to be able to play Blue Grass—and then not.” Since then that has been my mantra for anything frivolous, expensive, outlandish. I’d like to have the money for that, and then keep the money and be a little more “Scottish” in my spending.
Ugh, no. I just don’t like wraps. And my understanding is you have to have it redone every so often. And they have to take so many things off to wrap. How do I know they are going to put stuff back on correctly.
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