That was the coolest bit. Small doggo door or just a petting shelf, either is good.
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You’re friends with Red Green? 
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I prefer Truckla over Cybertruck any day.
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Chortle? Why do you make me use the google?
He’s very good truck.
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I know this guy (not very well) but I have stayed on Venture many times as my friend lived on it for a few years.
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Thank you for doing my work for me.
That said, you forgot the production(ish) Aston Martin Lagonda Shooting Brake / Wagon*.
*Yes, the wagon/shooting brake versions were all bespoke.
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OMG, did you see this? During the unveil he asked people to try and break the windows and they did. i mean they did break them, not they did try. HAHAHA
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Everyone already desired cars. His cars looked pretty much like other cars of the day. He just made them cheaper so more people could afford them. Now, if Tesla had given us a much cheaper, easy to maintain electric car…
Seriously, I would love an electric pickup. But not this sad love child of an Aztec and a Stratos, with a bed too small and sides too weirdly angled for it to be of much practical use beyond a status symbol.
Plus it doesn’t appear Ford ever said this. https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast
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My take on that was it was a mistake on the part of whoever shipped the model they were going to use. They likely had several with different windows for testing, some with bullet proof glass and some without, and they sent the wrong one. But funny as hell watching it happen.
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Lightning Rifle from The Matrix:
Or, Musk told the prototype builders he wanted bullet-proof glass on it, they told him that it wouldn’t work, but all he heard was “blahblahblah, blah, blahblah.”
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I never promised it was a good joke 
To explain/ruin it, “LOD” stands for “level of detail”, and game engines store different-quality versions of a model in slots starting at LOD_0 for the highest-quality model that’s used closest to the player, and LOD_4 (or beyond) for the lowest-quality model that you’ll never see up close. Also LOD_4 kinda rhymes with “Rav 4”, the Toyota jeep-alike.
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I did not catch the Rav-4 reference, but it makes sense now that you point it out. For what it’s worth, I DID know what LOD 4 was, so at least you got that going for you. 
My degree FINALLY came in handy!
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This is America. Who do you think is going to enforce antitrust? The neoliberalist establishment?
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I assume his competitors will buy enough influence to make someone do it. Is that not how the system works?
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Huh- the first rev of the Chevy Avalanche had a simliar gimmick with the drop down mid-gate. However, it was apparently too gimmicky, because they didn’t sell worth a damn, even after GM stripped all the plastic cladding off the body (which was another thing that made it look ugly as sin.)
I’d love to see if the tesla truck’s rear seats can fold up so that one can put sensitive cargo (say, a shelf of disk or a server) inside the cab instead of it bouncing around in the bed…
The Tesla Truck. An “interesting” product that signals denial.
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He should concentrate on his manufacturing weaknesses and on his inability to have Teslas repaired in a reasonable amount of time (now weeks to months).
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It’s not my cup of tea and many of the design elements seem silly or impractical to me, but at least someone out there is trying to make a serious departure from everyone else’s awful truck designs. Most modern trucks are monstrosities. At least this this is a completely different kind of monstrosity, without a ridiculous oversized plastic grille out front.
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