If you can get a Slate with a rear-facing dashboard, it's even more modular than I thought...
Hold my frozen margarita...Hold my beer.....
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I have that exact set. If the Slate is a hit, I'll be selling replacement body panels on eBay about 6 months after that. maybe...If you can get a Slate with a rear-facing dashboard, it's even more modular than I thought...
Hold my frozen margarita...
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I still can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would want that thing before it had five or ten years of proven reliability and parts availability.
I’m getting my second Maverick.
I’m getting my second Maverick.
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Because it's cheap.
Looks cheap. The Yugo of 2027?
Actually I think the Yugo looked better.
Around $4,400 once you add destination charge and dealer prep
Says the small print at the bottom of the picture
Looks cheap. The Yugo of 2027?
Actually I think the Yugo looked better.
Around $4,400 once you add destination charge and dealer prep
Says the small print at the bottom of the picture
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If everyone thought that way, how would any manufacturer ever introduce a new vehicle?
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Hopefully other new manufacturers would give their buyers something decent for their money. I don’t see the Slate as that but I could be wrong.
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Your fascination with both of these is impressive.Because it's cheap.
Looks cheap. The Yugo of 2027?
Actually I think the Yugo looked better.
Around $4,400 once you add destination charge and dealer prep
Says the small print at the bottom of the picture
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The fascination is, what people will sacrifice or accept for a cheap price.
The 1st USA Hyundai Excel in 1986 was $4995. They appeared to stay in business. I test drove one off the lot and onto a busy Route 1 down by Philadelphia. I was so close to being rear-ended as the car engine was loud but didn’t accelerate past “turtle speed”. I quickly veered off into another lot and walked back with the keys. 1st tries often struggle.
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Fun how everyone's definition of value is different.
Not fun how much you care about everyone else's definition of value.
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Picky, Picky, Picky...I don't think anybody who owns a Range Rover would be caught dead sitting in a slate, much less driving one.
I feel Range Rover owners carry enough insurance they don't care if it gets stolen. They probably even have replacement value insurance.
I should have noted "SARCASM", but did I ?
No.
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Actually, ludicrous isn't available on the Slate, it's a Tesla high speed option.
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Hmmm.
I guess my reply to that ludicrous comment is that a company that is entirely new from the ground up coming up with an "affordable" vehicle that may or may not last through a single production cycle may not be quite the same as buying a vehicle from a known manufacturer that has some history. In other words, it's an apples to bananas comparison.
Even if the Slate is an adequate vehicle, if it doesn't sell, those "affordable" trucks could be yard art without parts availability, which I think was @Cherokee 's point.
Not to worry, there are plenty of people in the population who are able to throw caution to the wind.
OTOH
The safe bet is always to wait for the bugs to be worked out of an entirely new vehicle, let alone an entirely new company.
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It makes you wonder how even the marketing department thought it looked like a million of anything..The 1st USA Hyundai Excel in 1986 was $4995. They appeared to stay in business. I test drove one off the lot and onto a busy Route 1 down by Philadelphia. I was so close to being rear-ended as the car engine was loud but didn’t accelerate past “turtle speed”. I quickly veered off into another lot and walked back with the keys. 1st tries often struggle.
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