BROWN LIKE A TURD!

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      Well, truck owners are not exactly famous for taste or open mindedness. It’s not a bad design from the interior perspective and the rear cover actually makes this practical. It doesnt have 16ft front blind spots like typical Brodozers. Italian designer Guigaro praised the design. He invented the angular design movement in the 80s.

      The problems are poor build design and quality, and poor safety considerations and poor performance off road, but let’s be serious, 99% of urban pickup owners will never go off road.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    You know, I really don’t hate the idea of buying a car without a finish and then getting a custom job after the fact. If there’s a silver lining on the Cybertruck debacle, its the steel frame that you can do up however you like.

    But holy fuck is that thing not the most “My 4-year-old’s favorite Hotwheels” ass chassis design. An absolute embarrassment of automotive engineering.

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      22 hours ago

      You should look into the Slate electric trucks.

      Small electric trucks/SUVs that are intended to be very cheap and barebones stock, but also very modular and very upgradeable, so you add the features you want. Including it being pretty much a given that you’re going to wrap it in the colors of your choice.

      They’re not on the market yet, but I have high hopes.

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        I really, really, don’t like Bezo’s involvement in the company, but if it actually comes to market, isn’t a POS, and ends up as the only EV that isn’t spyware on wheels it’ll have my attention for sure.

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          The big thing is the (supposed) mid-$20k base price. Exact pricing hasn’t been announced yet (and seems likely to increase, what with tariffs and unpredictable AI-based electronic component shortages). But if they actually do manage to bring a small, practical electric truck to market for, say, $27,000 and they can actually produce them at scale so there isn’t a years-long waiting list to get one…

          Well, that will be a big deal, I think.

          And, yeah. Doesn’t seem like it will be spyware on wheels, since it doesn’t even come with an infotainment system. You’re meant to mount your own phone or tablet to the dash instead. Those, of course, have their own spyware issues. But you could always just not do that if you’re worried about your privacy – you’d have no nav and no music, but also no spyware. Or just use an old tablet that doesn’t have an internet connection or something.

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          50 minutes ago

          There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

          If you want to drive a car at all, you’re going to end up supporting some huge corporation. And pretty much all huge corporations are at least somewhat friendly towards fascism.

          (When an open source car project that anyone can build and make parts for gets off the ground, let me know. I’ll be the first in line. Until then…)

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      21 hours ago

      Not to be a nerd but the frame (edit: unibody actually) is cast aluminum, they just glue bits on top

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        22 hours ago

        I mean, I’d like to see you put a mirror finish on an off-the-lot Honda Civic.

        But yes, the truck part of the truck is garbage.

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        22 hours ago

        Nobody sells cars with bare metal body work.
        Would be a cool look though, with just clear coat to keep it nice.

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    19 hours ago

    sometimes when I come across a tesla while on foot I do a quick ”roman” salute, with 2 fingers on the philtrum for the stache

    I just want everyone to feel welcome