I am in complete agreement. Just got back from running errands and saw 4 R1t's.. I love the look of it. If I needed a new car I would get one in a heartbeat.
If you go to a BMW G80 forum and tell them that their beaver tooth grill is ugly, you'll get a very similar response as you got in this thread. Yet it's clearly obvious that the majority of people who don't own a G80 think the grill is horrendous. It's an obvious bias for sure.
Or all the complete strangers that have come up to me in public and told me so. I'm sure they were all just lying to spare my feelings even though they went out of their way right? You people are something else. The two people who don't even have a Rivian trolling the Rivian forum don't hold a valid opinion.
This is actually totally fine. What always fascinates me about this is the non-owners showing up in enthusiast forums intended primarily FOR owners who show up and say things like "if X were different I might buy one of these, what do you think of that guys?" And the answer is, without you asking, none of us think about it. We don't think about non-owners, we don't think about reasons to NOT buy, because we clearly were not put off by X thing enough for it to keep us from buying. And then when the non-owners stir up shit they always play victim like oh "tough crowd in here!" No, it's no different than talking sports and shitting on someone else's team and expecting them not to give THEIR reasons FOR liking the team. This discussion is about things that aren't going to happen, it's a pointless discussion so someone can gripe and pretend they'd buy a thing "if only... " and expecting current owners to indulge their fantasy and that IS the weird thing. Owners not going out of their way to indulge non-owners who are not asking questions that have some kind of actual answer is actually normal and expected behavior.
If you think your opinion is more valid than anyone else's opinion, then you clearly have a narcissistic opinion of yourself.
I'm not an owner. I strongly considered buying an R1S to replace my Grand Cherokee and I still might in the future. But for now I decided to sit on the sidelines and wait a while to see how things pan out. And no, I don't like the headlight design, but I also mentioned that I like the rest of the styling enough that the headlights wouldn't prevent me from buying a Rivian.
I've had some folks say pretty nasty things, but it was in a "fundy" area and it was strictly anti-EV sentiment.
Nobody can hurt a narcissist. It's impossible, for obvious reasons.
I'm an owner and I can say I still don't love the front end. When I first saw a Rivian at the L.A. auto show years before it was released, I hated the front end and wrote the truck off as being an option. In the years since, I've learned to accept it, but can't say it's grown on me to the point where I like it. Many EV's in the past used to do some wild look just to scream "look at me, I'm different". Rivian wanted their own signature and the front is where they put it. Fortunately, the rest of the truck looks great and it is overall a great truck.
Same, could not have said better. Coming up on 2 years ownership....It hasn't grown on me. I don't like it at all.
