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REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by throwawaytea »

Jordan-117 wrote: post #198

I'm not up on the Maverick, but the comparison chart for the Slate EV feels pretty misleading: - the Slate's range is now 205 miles across the board, not 150/240 - both the REO and Slate start as 2-door 2-seaters with pricier models adding capacity, but the chart boasts the REO seats "up to 6" while the Slate seats "2 (5 costs extra)" - for repair costs, the REO just says "mechanical - affordable" (?) while labeling…

If you buy the common reliable gas engines, and stick to timing chains, you really don't have to do much. Our 4runner has 260k miles and hasn't ever had anything done but engine oil, trans oil, and differential oil. Trans and diff oil will still be done on electric cars.

I have a 300k Ford F250 gas that also hasnt had anything done basically.

And while for trucks the electric vs gas is huge, my Chevy Volt costs per mile about the same to operate on gas vs electric, because electricity is $0.46 a kwh in my California region.

Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by linksnapzz »

shermantanktop wrote: post #192
agensaequivocum wrote: post #43

> Physical Controls Levers, rockers, and real analog gauges. One small screen for diagnostics and CarPlay — nothing more. No subscriptions. No feature locks. Ever. > Right to Repair Every panel off in under five minutes with common tools. Plain-English diagnostics on a $30 scanner. A 20-year public parts catalog at fair prices. No parts-pairing — in writing. I'm very excited about this and pray it is successful.

This flimsy website and company is banking on your excitement and prayers.

If the product arrives at the quoted price, I could give a shit if their website was done in ActiveX controls for IE6.

Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by otekengineering »

i'd love a series hybrid version of this. to match performance of that I4 you can probably fit both electric motor and gas generator in a normal sized engine bay.

like a compact pickup version of what Edison Motors is doing to the fullsize pickup. i'd take an Edison conversion of an early 90s F250 over any new truck on the market.

https://edisonmotors.ca/trucks/pickup-conversion/

Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by cucumber3732842 »

SoftTalker wrote: post #72
thegrim33 wrote: post #30

Earlier 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.

And a lot of people have occasional need for a truck but don't want to or can't afford to own more than one car, so they use the truck for all their driving.

Exactly. People are optimizing for the most capability on one car payment. And for a lot of them that looks like a pickup but it also drives what people buy in the SUV market as well. This has bee known for decades. Like it's literally defining principal behind the 4-dr jeep and the proliferation of 3rd rows in midsize SUVs. The fact that you're still getting downvoted for saying it speaks volumes.

Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by cucumber3732842 »

ssl-3 wrote: post #151
otterley wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone who owns a pickup tows with it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a minority of owners who do. Some just need them for hauling plywood, others because they like the aesthetics.

A Honda minivan can fit 4x8 sheets of plywood in the dry, under-roof, with the doors closed. Other times, it can seat 8.

The venn diagram overlap between people who say "but minivans" and who hand wring hard enough to start a fire when someone has the gall to actually put 2000lb of stuff in a minivan or put a butt in every seat is too close to a circle for my liking.

Source: Minivan owner

Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by rationalist »

analog31 wrote: post #104
wlesieutre wrote: post #27

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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.

First thing I did with my truck is get a spray-in bed liner.

Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by rationalist »

skippyfish wrote: post #25
analog31 wrote: post #20

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The interesting thing in the US is that a lot of pickups, possibly most of them, are purchased for regular daily driving. None of the people I know with pickups have trailers.

I find it somewhat amusing that this attracts a lot of ire, but most of us would prefer a 2,000+ sq ft suburban home with a lawn when we could live comfortably in a 500-700 sq ft apartment, like people do in most European cities. Ultimately, life in highly developed countries is largely about the wants, not the needs, and different cultures emphasize different wants. The tech culture of the SF Bay Area doesn't glamor…

You're not allowed to speak the truth against group think.

For many people, their emotions are more important than being rational.

Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by rasz »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #117
8note wrote: post #111

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the hat claims that it was started in 1905?

The original reo went bankrupt in 1967 and after series of mergers ended up as part of the truck company diamond reo. Diamond reo then had difficulties and stopped production in 1995. This reo is wholly unrelated, except the guy who started it bought the trademark.

Worked for Packard Bell .. for a while https://dfarq.homeip.net/happened-packard-bell/

"In 1986, Packard Bell was the name of a defunct manufacturer of TVs and radios. Founded in 1926 or 1933 depending on how you count it, it survived until 1968 when it sold out to Teledyne.

In the 1980s the brand still had some name recognition on its own. But look at the other names it resembled: Pacific Bell, the telephone company. Hewlett Packard, the computer company. Packard, the defunct maker of luxury cars.

It sounded like an old-line company making quality products, which was what Beny Alagem counted on. He even put the slogan “America grew up listening to us. It still does,” on its early marketing literature.

People always confused them for something they weren’t, and for a time, it helped. “I don’t know about other brands,” one customer said to me when I was selling computers in 1994, pointing at Compaq and Dell. “But Packard Bell, that’s an old company.” Even my coworkers routinely thought Packard Bell was related to HP or to Packard, the car maker."

Re: REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

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Post by SoftTalker »

antonvs wrote: post #156
SoftTalker wrote: post #67

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It's honestly not that many. That's a very expensive truck for a daily driver. Most likely they have a large Airstream camper, horse trailer, or 5th wheel trailer or similar that they pull with it. Sure, some people just like a big diesel truck for ego reasons. But the cost of them limits most people's ability to endulge that.

> But the cost of them limits most people's ability to endulge that. Sounds like you’ve never been to the US. Thanks to cheap credit, every hillbilly and redneck has one of these. Which feels like about 60% of the population sometimes.

I have lived in the US my entire life. And yes pickup trucks are part of the "country" or "rural" identity to some extent but most people who live in rural areas actually use their trucks as trucks frequently. They pull trailers, or use them to haul furniture, appliances, building materials, trash... all the stuff that has delivery services in the city but you have to do for yourself if you live in the country.
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