you couldn't? You sounded pretty confident a few minutes ago....
I am confident that at least two vehicles have been delivered to Non-Rivian adjacent people. I am not omniscient, so I don't know the exact number.
Where did you get that info?
I would tend to disagree here. While it is true that there are several early pre-order holders who don't have an assigned Guide and, yes, the Guides themselves don't really provide useful details, they are primarily hamstrung by poor corporate communication policies and stale information. It's hard for me to say they aren't responsive when they are ready, willing, and able to provide any information they are given. There just happens to be a dearth of said information. Believe me, they are just as frustrated by that as we customers are...
For sure there are 2, there are several posts as well unconfirmed where friends have acknowledged receipt of vehicles.
I just haven't seen any deliveries to people who aren't affiliated with the company either as a direct employee or having consulted/worked with them. I'm honestly curious. Until they start delivering to early reservation holders - the ones we know here, who were told they'd have trucks by Thanksgiving, who have had reservations going all the way back to 2018, etc - I don't think it's really accurate to claim that they are now delivering to launch edition customers.
Two confirmed that I am aware of are iwantatesla on this forum, he has been posting and has a utube channel. There was also an interview on Rivian Stories of a guy who took delivery in December.
I can confirm that the owner and his spouse of the R1T in Bend, OR are not affiliated with Rivian. Although, I guess there's a chance that they have a family member who works for Rivian. But I'm somewhat skeptical.
Semantics. I believe the real question was about how helpful the guides are. The answer is “not at all”. In some cases, the guide program has made things worse.
I am also rejected from the bronco. I actually got mine built beginning of December but ford wanted to build all the MY 2022 so they held many of the last MY 2021s and never finished them. So mine sat in a field somewhere when people with a 2022 got theirs. Ford doesn’t think they will ship until May so I bailed. I already had a R1T reservation so I bought a different vehicle until I get a rivian.
Yes I know about iwantatesla. But I'm not sure that we can say he was in no way afflicted. I haven't seen the Rivian Stories interview. I'll look that up.
still Better than the typical salescritter at a ford dealer.
