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Look up obsolete. It means no longer used nor produced. Both FM and fax are used and produced. Fax is certainly approaching becoming obsolete, but you can still buy, for example, multifunction printers that include fax capabilities, so still in production. On the other hand, FM is certainly...

Seriously (now), I have no specs on this Rivian software defined radio. I have worked on various SDRs as a design engineer, and while Rx & Tx is common, there are probably many Rx only. Rivian may have more than one SDR in the R2.

They should program that radio to receive FM. Maybe I can find a thread about this... 😆

The struts open the hood to a pretty well defined stopping point, but I found with a good push, it will open much farther, as would be expected of a typical hood. Took a bit more push to get it all the way open than it did to close it, as the struts fight the extension. There is no doubt it...

The BFGs must be real expensive. The Performance trim charges more for the 20" with BFG over the 21" with Pirelli, while the Premium trim charges more for the 21" over the 20", both with the Pirellis. Am I missing another cost factor?

Yes, that is through the streaming service. Either iHeart or TuneIn. If you get a chance to sit in an R2 again, turn on the radio so that you see the FM dial. You will see a number of vertical gray bars. Tap your finger on the frequency of an FM station you know of in the area that is not...

It is definitely larger than the frunk in my '21 Mach-e, but not as deep. There have been times when I wished my Mach-e frunk was even deeper, but for things not too tall, the R2 has a pretty good sized frunk, but don't compare it to the much larger R1 or the more than twice as large Lucid...

Ignorance is bliss. Do you enjoy dissing the very many posters in this thread who have clearly stated why FM radio is important to them?

I test drove the R1S last year. I found its handling pretty sloppy, not for a large SUV, but I didn't want a large SUV, and sloppy handling is one big reason why. It will fit in my garage, but would require very carful positioning, and then very careful maneuvering in and out to avoid...

A portable Bluetooth radio is a terrible mitigation to the lack of FM radio. Poor reception, easily destroyed by interior heat here in the desert, inaccessible to the voice assistance, another item to separately manage and charge, etc.

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Plenty of FM stations can be one station. And for me, the “adventuring” is my summers spent at my mountain home 175 miles from my primary residence.

I had not heard that route planning is cloud based in the Rivian. Seriously? If there is no cell service in the area, the Rivians cannot navigate? I spend a lot of time far from any cell service, but that has never been a navigation issue with my Mach-e. The nav is useful even when I am on...

Hopefully that subsequent release of the R2 with an FM radio is very soon, before the order window opens for me.

If that was intended for me, you are totally wrong. I had my heart set on a Tesla model Y before it came out. I test drove one the day test drives became available. I hated the terrible turning radius, and the pathetic rear visibility, and was unimpressed with the ride, feeling too unrefined...

I did this on the TuneIn website, and it does show my community FM station, KPUP-LP. I say play, and it clicked in with a commercial. KPUP-LP doesn't do commercials of this type, so I knew immediately TuneIn was inserting its own commercials. After a few minutes, I lost count of the many...

For me, not much. However, it does provide quicker notice of road issues such as fires or wrecks or closures, and it does provide higher quality audio with HD FM stations, and it does maintain connectivity when cellular is in and out, and it does get ALL of the local stations. There are some...

The R1S&T have real FM radios. The R2 does not.

The Rivian sales person says that the R1S and R1T both have FM, but not AM radios. He was surprised to learn it was missing from the R2. Apparently, Rivian just sent out a notice to all their sales people to be up front about not having an FM radio (or AM or some other things he did not...

You will be able to get many, if not most, but NOT all, AM and FM stations by first going into the iHeart or TuneIn app in the audio screen, and search for your desired stations. Each app has a different set of stations offered, with some overlap. Once selected, those stations will appear on...