Better double-check your memory. I had a 1991 Civic Si the hood was about 40% of the total length of the car.
And the only way you shorten the hood a foot is to drastically shorten the wheelbase and make the interior even smaller.
That’s what I thought. Between what he said and reading between the lines, sure, they would have liked for things to be aligned but that wasn’t going to happen and they had to move on.
Yup- not by choice. Personally FWIW, I think they know LIDAR deliverability will be at least a year out - maybe midyear next year. It certainly doesn't "obsolete" the R2's LE
RJ has addressed this in several online videos. The development of the tech stack had to remain on its own timeline, supply chain not an insignificant factor - to the point they couldn't delay R2 any longer. Ideal? No - but, given the other recent announcement about next-gen development of...
Welcome to the new world of EV's where your car is now like your phone: "Wait for iPhone 18 or buy 17 now? But I hear 19 will have a shiny new doodad."
FOMO with tech is real - and it gets really hard when that tech costs $60K.... If I were you personally, I'd look for a great short term lease...
Autonomy is one of those upsell features that get people to pay more for a car... then never use. Example:
*"Only 12% of Tesla’s current fleet actively uses the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) package, according to statements made by Tesla’s CFO on a Q3 earnings call. Data from YipitData...
Also- demanding pricing from what is essentially still a relatively tiny start-up heavily in CapEx mode to any legacy manufacture with far higher revenue (Subaru's rev was ~32 Billion last year) and global reach is not a logical comparison.
Also, in the "what am I missing" category: Subaru...
As has been pointed out multiple times in this thread - whatever the Gen 1 of LIDAR will be is already baked in. This new development of fully vertically integrating in house is a play for Gen 2 or maybe Gen 3. The first-year's R2' LE's NEVER promised they'd have the hardware for LIDAR, just the...