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The problems they had were real, and service communications certainly could have been better. But they definitely played it up for clicks, and as a negative comparison to Tesla. Eg feigned outrage that they had to accept the cost estimate before the work, even though it was likely covered by...

Thanks for sharing the article - I hadn't seen it. Just to be clear, my interest in switching from my 2016 Model X to an R1S is primarily about more room for 3rd row passengers and bulkier cargo, plus a desire for something new. A new Model X would be pretty similar to what I've been driving for...

I think the key issue with dealers is that they see Tesla and Rivian's direct sales models as the foot in the door to their destruction, and they're going to fight tooth and nail to block them. Right now they are protected from competition from the manufacturers they are affiliated with - and...

Looks great, @ranieri! I'm thinking Forest Green, maybe with a matte Xpel total wrap. I've been debating Black Mountain w/dark ash vs. Forest Edge w/warm ash. Forest Edge looks nice - a unique color and not so dark - but $2K is $2K. Two questions for you. 1) the usual - when did you reserve? 2)...

A quick raffle update... Got my daughter to help me make a new video for TikTok, during my First Drive last week. Also sales have continued to pick up. We are now at 3625 tickets sold out of 5000, with exactly two weeks remaining. The raffle site sales "speedometer" shows current sales. So...

A quick raffle update... Got my daughter to help me make a new video for TikTok, during my First Drive last week. Also sales have continued to pick up. We are now at 3625 tickets sold out of 5000, with exactly two weeks remaining. The raffle site sales "speedometer" shows current sales. So...

As our raffle ticket sales have continued to be challenged despite some pickup since we added the Rivians, I reached out to some reporters and got a response: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-raffle-struggles-sell-tickets-due-to-elon-musk-actions-2023-1

She's had a lot of click-throughs and sold a couple of tickets so far, and we're planning on recording another TikTok this weekend. I guess we could go back to the Chelsea Service Center and pose in front of maybe an R1T this time, or R1S and R1T, but it would be nicer if she could be inside one...

I tend to agree with you. I’ve been very happy with my 2016 X P90D, but it’s almost 7 years old and will be out of extended warranty in a year. A new X would be more expensive, and bring with it things I like but also things I don’t like now (3rd row is tight for my growing kids, luggage...

Thanks! Actually I think she would have been fine with the t-shirt and bandana, but her big sisters took her to the mall and pushed her to ask me for the new sneaks, which just barely appear at the end.

Because I could afford it, it felt like I should buy an early Model S - even though it cost twice what I’d ever spent on a car previously, there was only one supercharger location between Boston and NYC, my most frequent road trip, and none in other directions. It was pretty clear to me that if...

I've seen a few Rivians - almost all R1Ts - around Boston of late, and because we wanted to record a TikTok ad for our fundraising raffle, and I wanted to see some Rivians up close, on the afternoon of January 1 I drove to the Chelsea Service Center with my youngest. I had to promise her a...

True, but Rivian was able to stand on the shoulders of Tesla and others. A decade since the Model S introduction made for lots of learning. And Rivian intelligently borrowed much of the driver interface from Tesla (not the yoke and buttons, thankfully!), making it easier for drivers to...

I agree. And clearly many others do, as witnessed by the dismal sales in our raffle this year. They've picked up somewhat since we added the Rivians, but we have sold about half the tickets we did at this time last year, and have just over six weeks to go... thanks, Elon.

I think my Musk 3-dimensional chess theory to sell Teslas to his new fans, while it may have been Elon's hope, is a fail...

There is no new suspension. That was just a press release from the component supplier. It looks like they made the same release a year or more ago, but weren't able to name Rivian in it. This time they named Rivian.

Yeah I would expect they could swap it. For parts inventory management purposes I’m sure they want to replace the whole seat but that tweak should be doable. I had a similar issue, though of my own making, with my early Model X. It has the shiny seat backs so I had Xpel stealth matte put on...

They had over a dozen vehicles there, mostly R1Ts but a few R1Ss. I was a little surprised because Tesla would have tried to push them all out the door before quarter end, sometime even selling off loaner cars to achieve the best possible financials for the year. We filmed a few takes by this...

No responses so far. Does anyone know if there are R1s parked outside the Chelsea Service Center that we could film in front of?

A week or two ago I saw a beautiful R1S heading west on Kirkland St in Cambridge. I think it was El Cap, hard to tell exactly in the dusk. It was my first R1S sighting in the area, though I’ve seen the occasional R1T since early summer. I live in Cambridge and am trying to recover my nonprofit...