Besides how bad US cars are there’s a simple thing that stops most people from buying them….they’re to stupidly big. That simple.
Forgot expensive. Big, expensive, unreliable. The trifecta.
BYD among others have it sewn up over there
Nobody smart in the world will be buying US electric vehicles
Not even yanks, but the lobbyists have kept most decent EV makers out, with the exception of the few Japanese and Korean vehicles available
Still got my fingers crossed that Slate’s $27k price tag doesn’t go way up. It’s the perfect tiny pickup for me.
I’ve heard a lot about these Slate but how about these ones?
Anything that bucks the trend of “Way too big for its own good” is worthwhile.
Personally though, I’ll be skipping over Telo due to it following the unfortunate trend of ‘touchscreen everything’. Tactile feedback on all cabin controls is a hard requirement, I must be able to control the HVAC and radio without taking my eyes off the road.
Also I’m a tinkerer at heart, and Slate is definitely pandering to that.
awesome, thanks for the info
I just saw a video about a new Chevrolet pickup truck. For some reason i thought it might be good. Because pickup trucks is all anericans care about. It’s huuuuge and absolute garbage with a 80k price tag.
You’re comparing a full size to a mid size, crew cab vs regular cab
If you compare the same model (two F150 for example) with the same type of body (crew cab 6’ bed) you quickly realize that their size hasn’t increased by that much since the 90s (and the growth mostly comes from having to meet safety standards). If you use proportions the same model of car will have blown up way more over the same period (example: the mk6 Jetta is the size of a 12 years older Passat).
I thought their point was that they hate the large size, not that they were comparing apples to apples
Thing is barely anyone actually buys regular cabs so from the get go it’s a bad comparison as sure those small trucks existed, but there weren’t that many on the road. When you look at an extended cab mid size with 6’ bed truck today vs in 1995 you end up with a truck that is taller sure (the design makes it look worse than it actually is really), but isn’t actually that much larger or longer. The same thing is true for all trucks if your compare apples to apples.
If you then take cash tests into consideration well things don’t look good for those small trucks from back in the day… Body-on-frame isn’t the best for crumple zones and stuff like that, but it’s necessary to take actual load.
So yeah, people can complain that super small trucks don’t exist anymore but if they did they wouldn’t buy them anyway.
I don’t think you’re right about a lot of this unless you consider only america.
That’s where the complaints come from so yes North America is the market I’m talking about
Truck specs aren’t hard to find either, people don’t bother checking the actual measurements though and instead rely on bad comparisons like a Ford Ranger with a regular cab vs an F150 with a crew cab to prove their point
My dad has a brand new reg cab f250 long bed (8ft) and it is quite bigger than his 88’ reg cab f150 long bed.
Also, people would absolutely by small trucks if they were available. The ford ranger was a top seller all the way until they discontinued it. The maverick struggles to stay on lots… there is clearly demand, but they dont have big profit margins like the mid size market has.
F250 vs F150, compare both for the same year and it will be the same story.
Are people being oblivious on purpose or something?
I’m not in the US. I see a lot of BYD cars in the parking garage of my condo. The thing that really surprises me is that we do not have a place to charge in the condo. I really wish I knew where they were charging their cars.
My boss has told me to run an extension cord from one of our workshops
Pretty soon, all the US will be is a military.
I don’t think any US auto maker is going to overcome the home field advantage in China. BYD is making some great cars, they have over half the EV charging stations in the world, and why on Earth would they pay a premium for a fucking Chevy?
why on Earth would they pay a premium for a fucking Chevy?
It’s a different story for Uzbekistan.
