Poll: F150 Lightning on Stair Steps too (everyone is doing now!)

[W1SE]

I would say the ford did decent but if you watch the very beginning he barely scrapes the front bumper. the approach angle on the ford is crap.

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[zefram47]

R1T, but I'd say I'm impressed with the Lightning. Then again, Lightning also has a rear locker.

 

[cjust2006]

Abstaining. They all handle it the exact same way. Any differences aren't significant enough to attribute it to anything other then the driver. That said, Rivian has best approach, departure, and breakover angles.

Anyone else catch the CT rear-wheel steering at the base of the obstacle?

 

[Mathme]

So now the internet is deciding the off-road capability of different vehicles based on ONE short hill climb using different vehicles, different drivers, and over different days. Yeah, there's a lot of equal comparisons that can be made there.

I'm no fan of the CT but to claim a "release candidate" vehicle is unworthy when compared to vehicles that have been in production for many months/years is extra silly. To the CTs credit the arm-chair quarterbacks of the internet don't know what the goal of the CT going up that hill even was. For example, maybe Tesla was testing out a new "rock crawl" mode and how well it performs in such situations over the standard "off road" mode? Maybe failing this test and struggling up the hill was the goal? Maybe this was just one run they've made over the past several weeks using a new driver who's never been off road with too much/little tire pressure?

The only thing we can truly know and summarize about seeing a CT here is that it is in some sort of test before release. I for one am glad to see it struggle in this situation as this scenario likely gave Tesla some useful data to eventually launch a better product who those who like the CT and buy it.

OK...rant over and now back to your regularly-scheduled grumbling...

 

[Diddy123]

This just shows me that the driver is the most important factor for this particular obstacle. I have no doubt that a decent driver would have gotten all of the vehicles up the hill without much excitement.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

I'm also annoyed that it's different drivers doing the tests. From watching the cybertruck video, it's not at all clear to me if the vehicle was struggling or if the driver was struggling.

It’s pretty clear the CT was driven by Musk, pausing frequently to tweet antisemitic opinions.

 

[DuoRivians]

It’s pretty clear the CT was driven by Musk, pausing frequently to tweet antisemitic opinions.

Shh… you’ll get banned for that banter here

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Shh… you’ll get banned for that banter here

Life won’t skip a beat
And it’d be akin to being banned for observing “the sun will rise in the AM”

 

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It’s pretty clear the CT was driven by Musk, pausing frequently to tweet antisemitic opinions.

No. Couldn't be him. He would never struggle to it get up. Even if he was tweeting.

His 11 kids are proof that is not a problem he faces.

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