No pictures, no interior, no features. I'd wait until they demonstrate the truck exists.
REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
161–170 of 256 posts
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
That some people buy them and don't really need them has zero relevance on whether any people have need for them.
How people use the vehicles that they buy is pretty well understood from the market research done by the car industry. In the US, the widespread use of pickup trucks a passenger vehicles is a known fact. An odd thing is that my family visited a rural part of England last year, and we saw very few pickup trucks on the roads and in the towns. On a walking tour, you see a lot of farms up close because the paths go throu…
There was a phase where these ghastly large pickups with four doors were common. Never had a drop of mud on them, but they were available tax free as a “work vehicle”, so no income tax on it.
They are ridiculous in the lanes round here, and invariably are in the disabled parking spaces at the shop as they are too large to fit in normal spaces
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
How it is made is often a strong indicator of whether or not the work is good. You don't find many literary masterpieces scrawled in permanent market on a toilet wall.
They are not in the website business though.
All businesses with websites are in the website business.
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Venturing far away from the charging infrastructure (camping, rural road tripping, jobsites/camp) is risky. If you run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, you can get a ride into town, fill up a jerrycan with gas, and then extricate your vehicle. A 5KW generator costs less than 2% of the price of the average new vehicle and is a useful thing to have in a place that doesn't otherwise have any electricity regardless…
Would be best to have a modular generator for an EV, that would allow slower but practical charging while on the go or at rest. This would be basically a series hybrid with modular generator, not popular due to lower efficiency AFAIU. Just explicitly design for lower performance when battery critically low and is charging on the go.
These are called EREVs in China and are fairly popular. Ford has a patent for one in trucks but never built it. It makes a ton of sense. Use the generator to get extended range, but avoid all the moving parts of a driveline.
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#165Do that not have any pictures of it?
Today it only exists in the imagination of the company CEO and a few trusted others, none of whom have figured out how to hire someone with automobile CAD experience to produce a mock-up that might increase interest for their proposed product.
People are so worked up online in places like Reddit and YouTube comments about how there aren't small trucks anymore. It feels almost like a strange mania. So it makes sense that someone like this would come along and capitalize on that (and probably never produce anything). People will throw $25 at a company without intention to actually purchase the truck, just because they feel some weird memetic vibe to support a small truck movement or whatever.
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
That some people buy them and don't really need them has zero relevance on whether any people have need for them.
How people use the vehicles that they buy is pretty well understood from the market research done by the car industry. In the US, the widespread use of pickup trucks a passenger vehicles is a known fact. An odd thing is that my family visited a rural part of England last year, and we saw very few pickup trucks on the roads and in the towns. On a walking tour, you see a lot of farms up close because the paths go throu…
There isn’t much need in the UK. Farmers use tractors or vehicles like the classic 4x4 Land Rover, Subarus, etc. None of the roads or the infrastructure are designed for American size pickups, especially not the countryside. If people need to move something big, they hire a van.
People are also extremely sensitive to fuel costs and an enormous car that guzzles gas and can’t be parked on a tiny village road is a downside. Bear in mind gas in Europe is like $8/gal and salaries are much lower.
The statement car of choice for people who don’t need the functionality is the modern luxury Land/Range rover (ie the Chelsea tractor).
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
And when they pick up groceries they load everything onto the floor of the back seat because the bed is so high up you’d need a step ladder to use it
Another reason is to avoid letting the inside of the bed get scratched. I lived in Texas for a while, and people were that fussy about their trucks.
As a european I would have thought having scratches in the bed and dirt on the bodywork would be a mark of pride.
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#168Do I want to own one of these? No. I want my mechanic to be bored when I show up and need service…I guess that makes me a market laggard. But I do love the pressure this (and Slate) puts on Toyota to restore some sanity to truck prices. There is a market of people who want reliable transportation without spending $40k++.
They won't have any pressure if it fails and this is unlikely to be successful to be honest.
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#169Slate is an EV that's so much better than a world-polluting ICE. ICE vehicles will hopefully be banned for sale everywhere by 2030 because they're more expensive and toxic to run than EVs.
They won't.
Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ford Maverick starts at $28k, and they're running about $3k in incentives at the moment. So it's a competitive price but nothing too wild versus what we have already.
The Maverick is a different class of vehicle: it has a unibody with no mechanical 4x4.
The amount of people who need and take advantage of 4x4 in a truck is probably around 5% of the user.
People mistake 4x4 for safety but really the most important part is the tires. A 2wd car with winter tires will be much safer and have more traction in the snow/ice than a 4x4 with all-seasons tires.