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@cyure and her photographer! haha! Only kidding, it was nice to finally meet you you in person and your husbands cool, nonchalant just go with the flow attitude was awesome. He is like a silent assassin with the camera and every time I would go look at the Traveler he'd be there at some different angle taking more pictures. Safe travels and hope to see y'all at another show.
Ok about the vehicles, I now understand cyure's obsession with them. Keep in mind I'm a current Rivian owner so I have a BEV and all the tech I could want, but I literally did not want to leave the Traveler, and every time I started to walk away I turned around and took another look which ended up being another 15 mins or so. I have never felt such a strong attraction to vehicle like this before and I HAVE TO HAVE ONE!
Seriously y'all, if you have not gone to an event yet to see these vehicles and you are really interested, GO! Even as amazing as the pictures are that cyure's husband takes, the vehicles are WAY better in person. But I gotta agree with her the best part is the Scout Team. They are just incredible! My favorite part of the evening was when a deaf woman was looking at the Traveler and she was using her phone to communicate with and one of the Scout Team members knew some sign language, helped her and she reserved our Traveler on the spot and we all celebrated with her. THIS is why this brand is going to be so successful because of the unique ability to instantly build a community no matter the boundaries.
Also, whoever trained the Scout event team hats off to them because they're more tight lipped than the Secret Service lol! Every single question was answered with a "maybe, could be, possibly, we're looking into that, its too soon to tell, we're considering it, etc". But still every team member was fantastic to talk to and the one thing that stood out the most to me was cohesiveness across them and the level of commitment, drive, and excitement they all had toward the company. There are previous Rivian employees and owners, previously Tesla employees and owners, which gives me stronger than ever belief that the finished product is going to be amazing! They are fully committed and closely looking at all the pitfalls that Tesla and Rivian had over the years and are focusing on making sure they don't follow suite.
Ok finally onto my impression of the vehicles. They truly are the perfect size. I still want to see the Terra concept in person before I make full judgement on it, but what I will say is the it looks and feels like a full size truck. Much bigger than the R1T, but not as big as the Silverado EV. However, the thing that stood out the most was the width, they are both very wide vehicles. But the Traveler, oh my the Traveler stole the show! The height with the rack was easily 6'5 because I am 6'2 and I could not even see over the roofline. The best I can describe the overall size of the Traveler is its smaller than the Hummer EV SUV, but its larger than the R1S. They nailed the interior space too. The front looks very comfortable for 6 foot plus in the front while leaving enough room in the back.
My top points. I know what I saw is only a concept model but looking at it you can already tell the build quality of is going to be very high. Additionally, if you want it, the level of luxury is going to be very high. I would expect that this config of the Traveler would be every bit of $100K and tbh I would absolutely pay that to have it in that config. One of my favorite things is the lighting both inside and out. The level of ambient lighting on the inside is perfect and I hope they keep it just like it is. This color combo was awesome in person, it was gun metal matte finish the the top was a cream color which paired really well together, a the team did indicate that there was a "likely chance" this dual color option could be available to config at purchase "depending on how much the people like it". These vehicles are going to be a huge success! Just walking around and hearing what people were saying about them and how excited people get when they see them tells you everything you need to know about how successful they are going to be. THE CABANA TOP! This has to be one of the top selling features for me, and according to the Team they love it just as much and from the sounds of it, it will absolutely make the final version.
I truly can keep going on and on because of how much I have instantly fallen in love with this vehicle, and I will absolutely be at every event I can from here on out. If anyone has any additional questions about the team, event, Scout space, or vehicles I'll be happy to answer them if I can.
P.S. I went to factory too, and the amount of infrastructure, roads, bridges, traffic circles etc that is going on around the factory is incredible to see. Lastly, the factory is MASSIVE and I love seeing the orange lines at the top of the building showing a subtle indication of the incredible legendary brand that is going to call the place home.
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