Maybe it's just me, but i get more anxious with a low tank and I'm in the City tha. I do with a low charge on my ID.4 I have never trusted the range estimate of an ICE and having it low while sitting on steep hill at a red light always makes me paranoid the gas is going to the side of the tank the fuel pump isn't.
Definitely conflicting information. I also asked if it was possible to get a LE R1T with a manual tonneau cover, said NOT currently.
This is real! When walking around in my hilly neighborhood my wife is always on edge when she hears an ICE on high revs. She associates engine noise to speed (and by extension, danger) even if the vehicle in question is going 20mph making it's way up a steep slope.
How is there conflicting info? All LEs have Adventure package, which includes power tonneau. Seems simple.
The info @BoltEVowner reported in this post conflicts with the observations that I had reported in this post.
I agree.? ...... But, in the back of my mind, I wonder why they haven't already discovered these minor problems in over 3 years of testing. Spring delivery would work for me too......except, what if they get ready for production again and find another set of problems. When does this end? For me, it ends with whichever truck is available to me first, between the Ford and Rivian. I want the Rivian, but I'm out of time. Hopefully the Rivian will be offered to me first, but three plus years is a long enough wait for me.
I don’t see the contradiction. The tonneau was locked out…. Doesn’t mean it’s a defective design. Perhaps all the test drive vehicles were on the same software release and in that release the function is disabled?
I doubt there will be much more issues. All these seem rather small I guess? 3 more weeks I'll be at 3 years. I didn't put down a reservation with Ford, so I'm going to have to wait for Rivian. They really don't want to sell me a gimpy vehicle. I don't let things like that go, especially if I paid $80k! Service will have to open up a station on my driveway because I will always be calling them.
Wow, actual non-employee deliveries? Maybe they were former employees, technically thats a non-employeeI think this is part of it. We had almost an hour yesterday with a new (400mi) production LE that they brought to our house. Within the first 5 minutes I ask "is this how to operate the tonneau" and the demo person said "that's been locked out". Drop the tailgate and I'm staring at rusting bolts and he said "yes - we've seen that - it looks like water is collecting". And then there was the funkiness of you can't latch the spare tire cover in one motion - you have to latch both corners. And then the hood button didn't release until he did a multi-step lock/unlock with the fob. And the courtesy light in the rear that stayed on...turned it off and it's back on...and the rear control panel that went unresponsive with the seat heater on high and he said "I'm going to have to reboot the car" (we know what that means).
We still love the vehicle but...boy I want them to work this stuff out before delivering mine.
PS: The demo person reported that - yes - there had been actual deliveries to non-employees in the PNW (he's based in Oregon). He seemed to have a pretty good idea of which trucks were where...whether they were pre-production or production...and who had taken delivery.
If you want a EV that stands out and get lots of looks, then get her an e-Tron GT. My wife absolutely loves hers.And that was another interesting thing...there was no drama for acceleration. In comparison, when I accelerate on an onramp in my Boxster (a MUCH slower car) my wife immediately says something like "don't kill us"...and we're just getting up to the speed limit. Around 90 mph in the Rivian and not a peep.
Another random thought...her first comment after the car left was "nobody noticed the car". While I was driving all over Mercer Island (where at any given stop you're likely to see 2 or 3 Teslas and a Porsche etc) she was watching everyone to gauge their reactions. One man who was walking his dog turned and stared - and that was the only reaction she noticed. I'm more than fine with that...but for her...I can have the Rivian but she wants something more distinctive. We might be able to solve that with Yellow or Red <fingers crossed>.
My Grand Cherokee has an air suspension system similar to Rivian. I can set it to automatically kneel when in park. I can't imagine Rivian wouldn't offer something similar.
