Just gonna leave this here.
slate.auto
Just gonna leave this here.
Spirit.airlines
But yeah if you like getting nickel and dimed for standard features Slate looks great.
Why would I pay 2.5x for a worse product?
For Americans the difference is we won’t be allowed to.import and register Mexican vehicles, even though many “American” autos are already made in Mexico.
Why do you say that? I’m not familiar with any import restrictions on LSVs from Mexico
If they start making vehicles that are competitive with the US auto industry they’ll crack down on them. Especially trucks. The US has fucked with truck imports forever.
Before you ask for this in America, the answer is No. Now go outside and play.
Now go outside and play.
Did you mean, Now go inside and Work. Work harder.
$10,000 seems unreasonably high for what you are getting.
US automakers: ban the import!
It’s communist!
Eating Ford’s lunch seven ways from Sunday
I didn’t see how fast it can go. 74.5 miles(120km) and almost 1500lbs(650kg), this would handle most of my personal driving around if can do at least near 60mph(96.5km/h)
The other version of this had a top speed of 50kph (~30mph).
That’s disappointing.
Campus cart
Yeep. They’re cute little townrunners, but you couldn’t really use them in the US for more than that - and I think most places they’d even be required to have an SMV placard .
Come on! 120km range… FFS I really want an electric utility vehicle, but I drive further on a slow day. I’m sick and tired if these handyman run about town EV trucks. I can’t carry a lot in the EV I’m daily driving, and I can’t afford several cars simultaneously.
But it does sound like a sweet price point.
Fun Fact: You can drive 120km on both a slow day, and a fast day.
Fun Fact: You can drive 120km on both a slow day, and a fast day.
Fun fact twoofer: people use the term “slow day” to denote days where very little happens and you know that
Fun fact: neither of you knows the meaning of the word fun
STATE SPONSORED PICKUP. Scary.
But at what cost?!
$10K Did you even read the headline?
Yes? It was a jab at western media.
Here’s an explanation.
It looks like, basically, a north american KEI truck?
It’s Chinese and we still don’t have a supplier. This is government propaganda on the part of Sheinbaum.
The only part that is produced here is the taillight
Whomp womp
Interesting - you have a source for that? EV’s are famously easy to produce so if Mexico can’t make their own it’s pretty bad look.
Yeah basically. That’s why it’s kinda funny they act like they designed it. I mean I’m sure they lowered the safety requirements and made some changes l changes but I’d a kei truck.
They are cool though, I’d love to have one for a second or third car for utility stuff.
Mexico knows how to do autos for most of their citizens, not just the upper-middle class like the rest of N. America.
Car centric society is just bad period.
I see you’ve never lived in a rural area
80% of the world’s population live in urban areas. So the focus should be on how to build urban areas that are less car-dependent, or preferably car-free. Nobody cares about cars in rural areas.
Most people dont.
Having a public transport/cycling/pedestrian centric society doesn’t mean you get rid of private vehicle ownership in totality. It just means private vehicles are more for people who actually need them (like folks in rural areas) than pointless status symbols and the like. Also I’ve lived rural and known people who’ve had vehicle cooperatives (vehicles are shared) that worked out better for everyone.
Tgey want own their cars and not lease a 98k dollar truck they can’t afford so people think they can afford a 98k dollar truck
But if they purchase direct, how will the poor leasing company make any money?!
Imagine living in a country where workers own their means of production, instead of renting in perpetuity from a bunch of industry landlords.
Which is funny because buying outright is expensive for most people, but leasing at a ~3-4% APR (before Euribor shot up anyway) is pretty affordable so you can get a vehicle with lower mileage or even new. It’s just Americans who seem to make it super unaffordable by introducing high interest rates, super long terms and buying 98k trucks brand new. I had around a 300€ monthly payment on my Mercedes. Might’ve been 280 before Putin decided to be a cunt.
That’s great to hear. I hope they do well.
They should export, or licence to fabricate, to other continents.
Imagine how great if Mexico became an auto export giant by just making one reasonable normal EV
Honestly a lot of cars are already made in Mexico, just badged with an American logo
the car parts that are made in Mexico are almost always higher quality than at the american plants, too
Or VW. They’ve be making licensed Jettas and Golf for decades, not to mention all the classic Beetles for so long.
I know Brazil also makes a ton of VWs, or at least they used to. My old mk4 Golf was built there
Brazil made all cars for its domestic market and put massive tariffs on anything else. So they ran local factories for Ford, GM and VW all with domestic variants. I don’t think they really ever sold outside South America though, or maybe even outside Brazil. There are some weird, neat variants from there that I’d love to get a chance to own at some point, mostly VW car-trucks.
They also build FIAT cars. They carried and uodated a few 90’s models well into the 2000’s and design a few models that made their way to the EU market, with minimal changes.
I can imagine a future in which these become more common in the US than ridiculous US trucks.
Tyey are too insecure to drive small cars
I can’t, especially not with the chicken tax and the right wing’s apparent need to burn diesel fuel to prove how patriotic they are.
Can we import this into the US? 👉👈
Sorry, that would endanger patriotic US workers’ job safety. So no reasonable EVs for you.
Can’t you just ask Trump to rename some diesel pickup to EV? Would be easier.
Trump branded ev… $100 says it would run on coal.
An only be available in gold
Bold of you to assume a Trump branded vehicle would run at all!
Or even be manufactured.
It would be a replica Stanley steamer, build in china
Only $10,000 to reserve one!
A raffle ticket to have the chance to see one? I’m sold!
Oh, not even that. For that, you get an email promising delivery within months and then nothing after that ever. :)
it would be this exact truck, rebranded and spray painted gold and sold for 5x the price.
Can the US stop being absolute pieces of shit to the whole world?
I think chicken tax is for overseas only? So maybe?
I doubt it. Mexico doesn’t adhere to NHTSA FMVSS standards, unlike Canada and the US. This is why Mexico has foreign brands like Renault, Peugeot, MG, etc that the rest of North America* doesn’t get. Mexico also continued to sell the 1990 version of the Tsuru (Sentra/Sunny) in base, no airbags until 2017, which wouldn’t have been legal in the US past 1998.
*excluding St Pierre and Miquelon
BTW, to anyone who thinks this is some sort of random joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Tax
This is the way. Nicely priced and small and usefull. Viva Mexico!
It’s almost like an electric wheelbarrow with a cab. I like it.
