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Looks to be in a decent location based on my overlaying of the patent image on the Traveler profile.
That’s pretty nifty on how you did that. Nice knowing it fits up tight how it’s been explained.
The one thing I can't understand though from these images is how is that going to work for the bed in the Terra? Looks like in that image it would be way into the bed area.
I thought the same about the Traveler until I saw how high the load floor was in the picture below. Anyone have a side picture of the Terra with the tailgate down?
Not a side shot, but the load floor is well below the tops of the arches, compared to the Traveler.
Obviously, the current concept of vehicles that were able to see aren’t the final product, but if we’re going to use them as the baseline for what we know, don’t we have an image from the recent outing in Arizona showing that the hitch receiver might be a little lower?
Patent images only need to be rough approximations in order not to give away certain things (I'm speaking in general terms). So I wouldn't take any of those drawings and try and overlay or assume anything.
That said, the differential hangs down lower than the engine does, so you don't need to worry about that part. Plus, we've provided protection all around the engine, plus there will be additional skid plates on some variations.
Cyure posted this in the FB find of the day. Now it actually looks exactly the same, so... I guess in my head it seemed like it'd be lower. Makes the most sense to me they'd be pretty close in the end.
More on auto dealers. These are from March and April 2026, showing that this is not a partisan thingI disagree with this paragraph
"For decades, buying a new car in America followed the same recipe: go to a dealership, take a car for a test drive, and then watch some finance manager draw the four quadrants out on a piece of paper while negotiating the final price. This method is so deeply ingrained with car buying in the States that it feels pretty much natural."
I did that in the 1990s and it was awful. In fact, I will probably never buy direct from a Toyota dealer because of the experiences I had then.
The procedure for buying a car now, and for at least the past 15 years has been
- check online inventory of local dealers
- contact dealers fleet or internet sales manager only for the dealers with in stock vehicles with the model and color I want. Prefer dealers with multiple more of the same model and color marked as "in transit to dealer"
- negotiate sales price over email. Make sure to compare against kbb.com, AAA pricing, Costco pricing and any other online sales deal you know of
- test drive car
- purchase car, decline every single add on offered by the finance manager who knows what is up and is just going through the motions. If required to close the deal, agree to financing on Friday night, make sure there is no pre-payment penalty.
- On Monday, pay off dealer financing with cash or a better rate loan from your local credit union
Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now. I have no sympathy for most dealerships, Kearny Mesa Hyundai excepted, I hope Scout Motors is successful in their direct to consumer sales.
At a Blowout Party for Unsung Republican Heavyweights, the Men Were Drunk—and Anxious
A journey into the Republican soul in 2023.slate.com
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This was opening night of the NADA Show, the annual convention of the National Automobile Dealers Association, one of the most powerful trade organizations representing one of the richest professions in America, and there was much to celebrate.
The years since COVID hit had been some of the industry’s best ever. Supply-chain issues had sent prices skyrocketing. New car prices were up; used car prices were up even more. “This has been an unexpected bonanza for new car dealers,” George Hoffer, professor emeritus of transportation economics at Virginia Commonwealth University, told Time late last year. Only a few months prior, the research firm Haig Partners clocked average gross profit for dealers at 180 percent over 2019 levels.
Really, the past hundred years had been great. Auto dealers are one of the five most common professions among the top 0.1 percent of American earners. Car dealers, gas station owners, and building contractors, it turns out, make up the majority of the country’s 140,000 Americans who earn more than $1.58 million per year.* Crunching numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, data scientist and author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz found that over 20 percent of car dealerships in the U.S. have an owner banking more than $1.5 million per year.
And car dealers are not only one of the richest demographics in the United States. They’re also one of the most organized political factions—a conservative imperium giving millions of dollars to politicians at local, state, and national levels. They lobby through NADA, the organization staging the weekend’s festivities, and donate to Republicans at a rate of 6-to-1."
Dealers Are Advertising Cars They Don’t Have. The FTC Wants It To Stop
A car shopper sees a vehicle online at a great price, clicks, calls or drives over and then learns the car is gone. Whatever the reason, that adds up to aggravation.
www.forbes.com
"On March 13, the FTC sent warning letters to 97 auto dealership groups around the country, telling them to review their advertising and pricing practices. Among the agency’s concerns was a simple one that any car shopper can understand immediately - dealers should not be advertising unavailable or non-existent vehicles."
FTC Warns 97 Auto Dealership Groups About Deceptive Pricing
The Federal Trade Commission is
“The Trump-Vance FTC is committed to preventing auto dealers from misleading consumers with low advertised prices and then adding on mandatory fees at the end of the purchasing process,” said Christopher Mufarrige, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “The FTC will remain focused on monitoring auto dealerships to ensure that the market functions efficiently and competitors are transparently competing on price.”
I might be skeptical of the FTC's ability to follow through on threats, and it is still significant that this is such a political no brainer that politicians from both major parties seem to be on board.
Same here. Just drove our 2018 model 3 RWD Long Range from Chattanooga to Cincinnati and back. Did 4 charging stops each way and had ~30% battery left when we arrived at each stop. We were charged enough for the next stop before we were finished using the bathroom each time.
If we had driven any ICE vehicle we maybe would have stopped once less (but like not because someone would have needed to use the bathroom just as often) so our travel time would essentially be equivalent with the only real difference being that sometimes your in a target or meijers parking lot, instead of a gas station.
We’ve put 117,021 miles on the Tesla thus far and it still drives like a champ and holds a charge just about as well as it did when we bought it. I’ve had it serviced once.
Cool, but as far back as we are, we actually aren’t. We still have better quality, and a whole bunch of other things that they don’t in their EVs. I saw a whole Reddit thread of people a]saying that the Chinese software is terrible.
I'm pretty skeptical of new tech, but headlights that can project movies is such a fun idea I'm sad it never occurred to me.
Regarding Chinese software being terrible, have you used Windows, Workday, Atlassian, Sharepoint, or Office 365 lately? I have complaints about all them, just from things I had to do today
Ok, that is not true, I didn't have to use Workday today, I just like to complain about that one every chance I get. 
I wish at least some of the media got their facts right
He definitely said that was the intent. Maybe these writers should join the forum
Was thinking the same thing. Doesn’t tell us everything but as informative as the portly researched text in the article
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