FastEddieB
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Fast Eddie B
Just a reminder, it’s tonight at 11P EST.
Yawn...
Past your bedtime?
At my advanced age, definitely.
Besides, it'll be another one of those "Send me a deposit and we'll send you the Tesla. In a year or three." I don't to need to stay up, waiting breathlessly, for that.![]()
I love the way Musk chose the date of the reveal!
And it will not tow much, it will haul very little weight, short range, be ugly, very few service centers, and not be good at 4x4'ing in deep mud and snow.
...OK, yeah, it's ugly as hell...
The month (Blade Runner), or the actual day???
Tows 14,000 (more than the F150), pulls "infinity", hauls 3,500 (also more than the F150), 500+ mile range...
OK, yeah, it's ugly as hell.
... who cares, with Tesla the service comes to you, and it's got an air suspension that will give it the highest ground clearance of any pickup.
But yeah, it's ugly.
Hard to believe that came out of the same company that produced the beautiful original Model S.
I knew I should have gone to bed...![]()
Yeah, but you'd still have a garage chock full of butt-ugly. It'd be like a big demented Jumanji board, waiting to screw with someone else some day.If you were to park it in a dark garage, lock the door, and never ever again go in to see it, the nightmares should subside in 10 or 20 years after seeing it.
Misses:
1) Looks. IMO, it's too different. Frankly, most people drive pickups to look cool, or even if they do need a truck they want to look cool. This is the kind of thing that'd get you beat up if you brought it to school.And, unfortunately, the focus in the news, and the focus of the naysayers, will be the looks. That's unfortunate, because it's a highly capable truck, but many people won't be able to get past the looks. Maybe it'll look better in person...
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2) Looked more like a concept than a finished product, hence no interior or instrument panel shots. On the latter, I guess one can assume the instrument panel will be just like a current Model 3, just a floating iPad in the center of the panel.
That steering wheel is idiotic. The height of the bed makes it unusable. I’m short, and I wouldn’t even be able to see into the bed. All for aesthetics. What a shame.
The steering wheel isn’t for aerodynamics. That 100% aesthetics. And unusable.I doubt it's aesthetics, I think it's aerodynamics. They do need to commit some heroics to get 500 miles of range on it. If the sides just folded in or down like the cover does, it would make a huge difference.
What IS the height of the bed? I didn't see any dimensions, but I admit I didn't really search them out yet. This is part of my search. I bought my GMC Canyon because even though I have a fairly large 2-car garage, I have work benches, shelves and tool boxes all around the perimeter. With the Canyon and the BMW, I can still get out of either door on either vehicle inside the garage and walk all around either vehicle without sliding though sideways. I am wondering if I could do this with the Tesla Truck.That steering wheel is idiotic, although I doubt that makes it to production due to safety regulations. The height of the bed makes it unusable. I’m short, and I wouldn’t even be able to see into the bed. All for aesthetics. Bad aesthetics. What a shame.
The steering wheel isn’t for aerodynamics. That 100% aesthetics. And unusable.
You don’t have to make the thing with straight lines to make it aerodynamic.
But as it sits now, it will cover the needs of 90% of the people that own pickup trucks. It won't replace an F-350 PowerStroke, no.My opinion (and I'm obviously a Tesla fan). Ok, ugly. But put a wrap on it.
The main thing for me personally is that it's not actually useful tow or haul vehicle:
a) You can't put a 5th wheel or gooseneck hitch on that bed.
b) 14000 lbs towing on a SRW with a short wheelbase is scary.
c) Can't put a camper over that bed. The haul capacity is also too small for most campers due to the SRW.
I'd guess about 1% of pickup truck owners have requirements like those.On paper those are the numbers maybe.
I want to see towing in the mountains here, how far it will really go towing my travel trailer. It will probably need to stop and be recharged so often that a normal one day drive would take a week. Or going to the ski hill in 2 feet of snow, lets see how it really does. I could build a truck and throw outrageous claims about how great it is...but in real world use is where it has to be proven. I drive a Ram with Hemi V8, and in the mountains when towing there are times I leave my right foot flat to the floor and don't lift even a little for 20 or more minutes. I bet that would eat those batteries up in a hurry. Its a 4x4 and I will chain up all 4 tires and head out in the snow and drive up a steep mountain road, to me that is why a pickup exists. Lets give the musk mobile a few years in the hands of people like me who use a pickup truck as an actual truck, see how it goes.
But call me a skeptic for now.
But as it sits now, it will cover the needs of 90% of the people that own pickup trucks. It won't replace an F-350 PowerStroke, no.