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Go to the garden store, buy 20 bags of mulch, sling them on the back, drive home. Or go to the drive-in theater and lay blankets in the back! Or put a kayak in the back and leave the tailgate down.
That's my use case anyway.
Go camping and just throw all the dirty stuff in the back to clean at home. Take all the yard clippings to the mulcher without having to bag them or keep a pile on the curb. I have a hard tonneau cover so sometimes I like keeping my tools under there if I have to park in the city without worrying about people seeing the valuables through a window.
People like to say truck owners never use their trucks but I use mine constantly. I'm camping at least 12-15 weekends per year, hauling yard equipment, kayaking, helping people move, and all in a midsized truck.
I don't really hear people say that about tacomas or equally sized trucks. Moreso the bigger ones and usually they don't have a scratch on them.
I can't afford a car, but I've got a house with a yard that needs that much mulch?
I'm sorry? We have an acre that we're converting from all grass to trees, shrubs, herbs, crops, and wildflowers.
Must be nice.
We got very lucky. A coworker was looking to get a bigger house when I started my job and we wantes to get out of an apartment. We didn't use a realtor and paid $170k for 1200 sqft and an acre. We're on the outskirts of a small college city so it's fairly quiet but close enough for a 15 minute walk downtown.
I think the point is that a pickup truck bed is better for hauling this than vehicles with other body styles.
You can get a flatbed pickup for $25k if it's not brand new. And it does the job just as well as whatever this thing is.
So what? Should no basic, inexpensive vehicles be produced because you could get a nicer or more capable used one for a similar price?
Also, this one is electric. Sans the Cybertruck, there aren't too many electric pickups out there, and probably not many on the used vehicle market.
I'm all for basic, inexpensive vehicles. This isn't basic, it's threadbare. And it isn't inexpensive, either.
Why do you think Americans have to spend so much more money on an electric vehicle than their international peers?
You're clearly not the target audience for this vehicle. Neither am I.
And you know what? That's OK
People act like the home depot wont deliver, and that trailers don't exist and that they have to daily a pickup so that they can move mulch once a year.
My brother in christ its a codpiece for insecure people. What you need is a fiesta, rented/borrowed/shared utility trailer and a removable tow ball.
Are you saying that the Slate being discussed in the article is a codpiece? I hardly think so. It's a pretty damn basic vehicle.
The entire vehicle segment and the trappings of it are all related. It could easily be a van and friend-shaped for collision.
So put a cap/shell on it to enclose it? It even shows this in one of the pictures. They are also releasing an "SUV" configuration. We can split hairs between the difference between an SUV and van, but I don't think it's helpful.
What do you mean? Are you wanting something more like a ute?
Delivery of heavy things is costly you know. It simply comes down to: if you're making use of it, it's worth it overall. Our pickup was only 35k, same price as the Subaru we'd otherwise be buying. We're outdoorsy and we're converting our yard from grass to trees, shrubs, and wildflowers, so a pickup is getting its mileage. If you only need this stuff a few times a year then it's certainly not worth it. People have different needs.
Motherfucker rent a uhaul. Its just a codpiece for the insecure.
What has you so bent out of shape? We make use of it. It's not even my car, it's my wife's. I drive an electric moped to work most of the time and my sub-SUV the four months it's too cold. Would you rent a uhaul to go kayaking!? We drove 2.5 hours to my wife's parents for a long weekend (Juneteenth) and brought an inflatable bed, kayaks, paddle board, and we came home with their smoker (they're retiring and downsizing). Besides, it's a Ford Maverick that gets 36 mpg, it's not a massive gas guzzler.
Drive what works for you, but what we're doing is economical and no more environmentally unfriendly than any other car.
There's a reason why they only exist in the US.
So.. a fiesta then? How many times a year do you need to haul 20 bags of mulch? Do you not have a trailer hitch?
Still not seeing the daily need for something so agricultural. I don't drive a unimog to the grocery store.