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So a CEO worth an estimated $2.5 Billion complains about a $4K repair bill on a low-volume $100K car, now forced to drive his Porsche Taycan for a few days... which has a very similar windshield replacement cost.

Thank you for the advice mikehmb and Tim-in-CA. Your leak looks very serious HeyEllwood, and we seem to have the same 30 January appointment date. I will of course put the car in the garage when it rains later this week - though not happy about displacing a fancier car to make room. And I will...

I just took delivery of an R1S, VIN 31xxx, with the same or similar issue - water dripping from the passenger side sun visor hole after a heavy rain. Normal service appointments in San Francisco and San Jose are months out, and even "urgent" appointments are a month out - though they are going...

We finally took delivery of our R1S. Really enjoying the car, but I do have a troubling problem. Has anyone had something similar? After a heavy rain, I backed the car out of the driveway, put it in drive and starting moving forward.... when a small river of water started pouring out of the...

Counterpoint: My wife fell in love with the Rivian R1S entirely because it looks like a Range Rover with a "cute and friendly" nose instead of looking like a digital pug dog.

I saw at least three Rivian on Honolulu a few months ago, and I saw one in Germany last week.

Steer by wire cars include: The Infinity Q50 - 10 years ago! Infinity QX50 and QX55 new Rolls Royce cars Lotus Eletre maybe Toyota bZ4X Lexus RZ450e Lots of cars over the next few years, using the Bosch or ZF systems

Porsche Taycan EV is the same: A lever where Down=drive and Up=Reverse. At least it'll be the same for both cars when our R1S arrives.

Gear Guard Gary is a nice mascot, but you have to admit that a white Rivian looks a whole lot like Mr. Peabody:

What? Looks like about 9 microns to me. ;)

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Rivian is catching up to R1T demand, or that interest rates are dampening demand, but there is something else at play here: Rivian always seems to push batches of cars to the Store, which then get bought up over a few weeks. I got access to the store a month...

We went on a little drive today to Sonoma, then Napa, and then home, 144 miles total. Today's sightings: 6 R1S - three white, two launch green, one silver 5 R1T - 2 silver, one white, one blue, one yellow

Sounds like 3,500 "built but not delivered" as opposed to "3,500 unsold". The Rivian "shop" just got re-stocked again but we're talking ~160 cars for delivery in "one to weeks", not 3,500 unsold cars available for delivery now.

That is a really impressive repair. True professionals.

Counterpoint: - The Polestar is a GREAT looking SUV, quite a bit sportier than the R1S - The Polestar is plenty fast, thank you - It has the must-haves - wide performance tires, active air suspension, torque vectoring, huge brakes, etc. - Polestar is smaller in a good way if you aren't looking...

Taycan has gone from "get on the huge waiting list and wait a year" to "Yea, we can get you one in six months, and we have a few unsold base models on the lot" in the last six months. But the typical Porsche buyer spends weeks with the configurator, and is willing to spend and wait to get...

Looks like you are correct about Taycan US sales. The sold around 120K world wide, but only around 20K to the US. So there are more Rivan than Taycan here.

It's odd: Porsche has sold way more Taycan EVs than Rivian has R1s, and yet I see more Rivian than Taycan. I guess Rivian just get driven more.

Well I guess we'll be seeing longer cables on the Tesla chargers then. So there will be *something* good to come from the existence of this thing.

I don't think you read the actual article. Please have a read and then update your post and your conclusions about what he said.