Why is Price X + "Delivery Fee"... no if I cannot avoid the fee then that should be in the price. $28,350 + FEE ($1,595) = $29,945 this is the price. Why is it always smoke and mirrors with cars?
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Is it just me or is it kind of disgustingly shaped?
It looks like it's intentionally wrapped in a way that hides the proper shape right now, like there's a plastic bag on the front with something inside making it stick up more. Maybe I'm wrong, but remove all that and I think it's just generic Ford truck shaped.
Idk, it's giving me vibes of lowered trucks from the early 00's. Pretty dumb but somehow I enjoy it.
Ew.
Just release an EV Ranger with a diesel range extender option you can set in the bed for long hauls. Make the range extender look like any toolbox.
Ford seems desperate to sell now that they've made all of their vehicles too large and too expensive for the ordinary citizen. Money talks I guess, but I wouldn't trust those fuckers. Now Nissan or Honda? I'll look twice at them when car shopping.
Fuck no. Imagine purchasing an American Car in 2026(2027)
It’d be nice of someone told them you don’t need that big pedestrian smasher grill on an ev.
It almost looks like they have framing to obscure the true shape under the tarps
Somebody not bezos should make small EV trucks
At some point you need to stop letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Bezos is a Slate investor, but that hardly makes a slate something that's made by Bezos. It doesn't seem connected to the Amazon ecosystem in any way.
It's really easy to purity test oneself into complete irrelevance.
They're not saying to boycott it. They're saying people at least less evil should be competing.
Anything that doesn't have mandatory telemetry gets my approval. It's a very low bar to clear but there really aren't any others trying to do it.
Check out telo - i really like them (wish it were more affordable, but still, if i were to buy a new vehicle, itd be that one once available and vetted)
Telo and Canoo really went back to the drawing board and designed trucks around the skateboard design of an EV. No frunk, front seat as far forward as possible, relatively aerodynamic design. Carbros absolutely hated them and derided them to no end but the only real objection was that they looked so much different from the designs they are accustomed to to, that is, designs tailored to the specific problem of accommodating a large engine block. At some point we’re going to have to leave these designs in the past, it’s just a matter of time.
Hadn't heard of those before. I like the Canoo design immediately, Telo less so but if they ever made a 2 door with a longer bed I'd probably be into it.


I truly appreciate that a company is doing something radically unique and I understand taste is subjective.
That being said: hell no. The Canoo looks like a ski lift gondola with wheels.
Meanwhile, the past:

Edit: the more I think about it, bringing back the Econoline brand specifically as an electric "cabover" pickup and/or van would be extremely cool.
(It wouldn't really be a cabover because the thing the cab is over is the engine and an EV doesn't have that, but you know what I mean.)
Yeah, I'm staying the fuck away from Ford or at least the next 5 years. They outsourced all of their design shit to AI and then had to higher engineers back.
Oh look, Ford is making another shit UV with a pretend bed, so innovative.
Will start at $30k with the mandatory fees, before the dealers "value add" it another $15k.
My 2006 Ranger is the last Ford I will ever own.
Great another monster sized truck that needs to do a 3 point turn to get on to my street because they can't corner worth a shit. Even Maverick - which might be the smallest pick up I can get in the US right now is the size of a large to mid sized pick up.
Man I'd love to have an EV truck that is the size of one of the old Toyota pick-ups from the 90s. Make me a truck that I can see over the roof of and I am sold.
I put money down on a Slate. It was the closest to what I wanted; a simple, no bs, light duty truck that's electric.
Their site puts it at just a little bigger than 1980's Toyota pick-up.
The upcoming Slate truck appears to be the closest thing to that ideal.
If it's electric, why is the hood tall? There should be no need and it is a danger to pedestrian and cyclists.
I just want a kei car, or functional public transportation, or sidewalks with trees over them.
Sounds great. Can I get it without spyware?
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