• @GreenKnight23
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    24 days ago

    I used to want one. They were super cool, but much like Volkswagen(sp) the era where Nazis owned them sucked.

    Now I want a Rivian.

    • @[email protected]
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      2024 days ago

      When they only made the S, and they were super rare space age tech, Tesla was kinda cool. Now they make road going appliances, and the owner is a terrible person.

      • @grue
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        1624 days ago

        Even back then, they were shitty, closed-source spyware-boxes.

        • Noxy
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          24 days ago

          what car from the last 15 years isn’t, though?

          I abhor Tesla and their nazi CEO but to think any other automaker is any better with regard to privacy or openness?

          • @grue
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            424 days ago

            There’s a reason all of my cars are more than 15 years old.

            • Noxy
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              324 days ago

              I don’t blame you at all, though there are definitely some tradeoffs

              • @glitchdx
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                224 days ago

                I’m ok with needing to keep an 8track collection instead of CDs if it means that my car won’t report my every sneeze to Ford or whothefuckever.

                  • @glitchdx
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                    123 days ago

                    that’s as modern as I’m willing to tolerate in a car. If it has a touch screen, then I’m personally offended and whomever designed that vehicle should be flogged.

    • Noxy
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      1524 days ago

      Rivians are silly. Much less silly than the Cybertruck but still excessively large and heavy with pedestrian-murdering front ends, among other gripes like not having a glovebox or a power button

      • @[email protected]
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        1224 days ago

        People who own pickup trucks but don’t need them for work should be sent to live on the pacific garbage patch.

        • @Regrettable_incident
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          24 days ago

          I don’t know why there aren’t any small pickups. I used to have a proton jumbuck, little two seater pickup. You could get a ton of wood in the back and it was the same size as a car so you could park it easily. Really useful little thing, but you don’t seem to get them anymore.

          • @wjrii
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            724 days ago

            Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz are the closest things available in the US now.

          • @Jiggle_Physics
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            724 days ago

            IIRC it is due to how taxes are related to size and weight classes of trucks in the US

          • @cmbabul
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            424 days ago

            I’d love something the size of a 90s S10

          • @Bytemeister
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            123 days ago

            All I want is a LHD Kei truck.

        • @glitchdx
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          424 days ago

          +1 for the creative punishment of idiots.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 days ago

      They seem neat, but I’d like to experience their UI first. If it’s as awful as the Teslas I’ve ridden in, then nah.

      Also, want a front-end winch.