Would be nice to see actual pics instead of silly silhouettes. I am in the market for exactly this kind of truck (especially a manual) but this doesn’t inspire me to want to buy it.
Would be nice to see actual pics instead of silly silhouettes. I am in the market for exactly this kind of truck (especially a manual) but this doesn’t inspire me to want to buy it.
The company was started no earlier than December, according to the articles linked in another comment. Very real possibility that no pics or semi-finalized CAD design even exist yet at this point.
So its basically an underdeveloped kickstarter project.
Yes.
Or my preferred expression: "Bullshit."
Turabian might disagree with your use of quotation marks.
It's basically an idea without enough funding to exist.
I don't think 25$ reservation slots are going to pay for a full assembly line.
$25 is too low. $25 feels like "no one will go after the guy if the money just disappears".
Slate was $50.
Slate also had 3 years of skunkworks behind the scenes by Re:Build Manufacturing as "Project Re:Car" with millions being thrown behind it by Bezos and friends.
https://rebuildmanufacturing.com/work/slate/
The fact these guys are still trying to find manufacturing partners and suppliers is killing me when Slate's got Tier-1s (Vitro) already lined up cranking out windshields in Mexico for them (among the rest of the f*cking owl that is the truck coming together here in the US ;) )
the hat claims that it was started in 1905?
The original reo went bankrupt in 1967 and after series of mergers ended up as part of the truck company diamond reo. Diamond reo then had difficulties and stopped production in 1995. This reo is wholly unrelated, except the guy who started it bought the trademark.
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Speed_Wagon
I still own a Diamond Rio Volt SP250 MP3-playing portable CD player. How does that fit into this non-timeline? (I bought it in 2001 if that matters.)
Worked for Packard Bell .. for a while https://dfarq.homeip.net/happened-packard-bell/
"In 1986, Packard Bell was the name of a defunct manufacturer of TVs and radios. Founded in 1926 or 1933 depending on how you count it, it survived until 1968 when it sold out to Teledyne.
In the 1980s the brand still had some name recognition on its own. But look at the other names it resembled: Pacific Bell, the telephone company. Hewlett Packard, the computer company. Packard, the defunct maker of luxury cars.
It sounded like an old-line company making quality products, which was what Beny Alagem counted on. He even put the slogan “America grew up listening to us. It still does,” on its early marketing literature.
People always confused them for something they weren’t, and for a time, it helped. “I don’t know about other brands,” one customer said to me when I was selling computers in 1994, pointing at Compaq and Dell. “But Packard Bell, that’s an old company.” Even my coworkers routinely thought Packard Bell was related to HP or to Packard, the car maker."
The founding date for the original REO. I don't think they have an unbroken line back to the original
These new guys don't. The descendant of the original REO is Nucor Steel. REO owned a steel roofing company, and through a strange chain of events, that unit became the biggest steel company in the US.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor
also no real mention of body construction or bed dimensions. nice to see a 2 door though I guess
Their website says body on frame.
Why are people designing such thoughtless websites?
On the other hand, perhaps it is just that the company here has presented in its totality all existing information about the vehicle in question.
That's the scary thought. Maybe the site is all they've got.
Slate at least is far enough along that someone got to drive the prototype.[1]
(Amusingly, Google pairs that video with an ad, "Freedom is Loud", for a Stellantis truck product.)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0t7wpkFc6U