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Right. And your big truck doesn't have regen braking to supplement the friction brakes. I'll go out on a limb here and assert that big brakes are not really a safety thing but more of a marketing ploy. I'm not an automotive engineer. But I do know some basic physics. And I know that basic...

The OP asked about Moab. Yeah, Rivian will be fine on the easy ones like White Rim, White Wash Dunes, the Tower Arch road, and the Shaefer Trail (and probably a few more boring ones I can't remember). It might manage Top of the World with considerable caution. Maybe Rose Garden Hill with extreme...

Mostly right. Torque and speed are of course related. But I suspect (guess) that it's actually kind of complicated. But it would be easy enough to add wheel speed sensors if the aren't there already. My guess is that the ugly looking wheel spin we've seen in their videos is the result of the...

Yeah. But why in the world did they chose to fit such giant brakes? This isn't a race car.

I think Rivian will perform best at glamping and least well on rock crawling: Glamping: sure, you don't need much in the way of off-roading capability but the pretty interior is nice. Fire roads: OK easy enough but watch out for gremlins that eat sidewalls. Overlanding: range may be an issue...

OK, I agree it's "traction". (And the main way to improve that is with better tires.) And I agree the 4 motor design is *potentially* better than lockers. We'll just have to see. But it's "only" software so I expect they will be able to improve it after some real world experience. It might be...

Skyote is right about the angles, too. Fixing that is the second thing I would fix. And some decent armor under the bumpers and the rockers (the underbelly looks to be OK).

In the real estate world the mantra is "location location location". For off-roading it's "Tires Tires Tires". OK, one could always replace the stock all-terrain tires with some mud-terrains but they can't be any bigger: there's no room in the fender wells to put larger ones. And the 20" rims...

Yeah, that would very interesting. But I’m afraid the Rivian wouldn’t fare very well.

Oops; typo. Should be Nov 23 2019; Order #18925 Fixed.

Nov 23 2019; Order #18925

Very hard to tell but it looks like it will have much better approach and departure angles than the Rivian and the CT. That would make a lot of sense given the heritage of the original Humvee. If there are no other gotchas this looks like a better fit for me than either Rivian or CT.

Yeah, I get what you’re saying. But I hate driving that gas-guzzler.

I’m in San Mateo county. I would be happy to do a little trail run with you when our Rivians arrive. I’m not very confident that the Rivian can do the Rubicon trail without damage but there are a lot of lesser trails up there. And some really nice ones on the east side near Mammoth.

I have both an R1S and a CT on reservation. I will actually buy the first one that comes to market, probably the Rivain. But I’ll trade it for a CT based on the OFF ROAD performance of each. And the CT looks like the winner just from basic specs: it has better clearance and bigger tires. I like...

Nice rig. Those rock rails are another thing that Rivian needs to think about.

With my 37s I have about 14" under the transfer case, less under the diffs. With the 35s it was a bit less. (My Jeep also has a 2.5" lift.) Rivian is very good in ground clearance. And that's good. But the deal with the tires is not so much to get more clearance but to get better traction. More...

I agree on your 95%. But I'm in the other 5%. What people mean by "hardcore rock crawling" depends greatly on where you're coming from. To me "hardcore" is trails like Pritchett Canyon in Moab or Fordyce Creek in Tahoe. That's not me. But I've done the Rubicon a couple of times once on 35s and...

For serious off-roading the Rivian doesn’t really match up to either the Bronco or certainly not the Wrangler. But it wouldn’t take much to fix that. As the quoted review says, the most important thing is geometry. Rivian is actually a bit better on breakover angle but it falls down badly on...

I would like to see the ability for the NAV system to save track logs, upload them to the Net somewhere or to a thumb drive, and to download and display ones from external sources. Off-road maps in my experience are often unreliable and out of date. Track logs saved recently by other folks are...