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  1. Which R2 colors look best when dirty?

    Just embrace the dirt and get whatever color you prefer. A dirty car will always look dirty but a silver car will never look forest green.
  2. NO REVERSE BEEPS ON R1S OR RIT

    I’d suggest replacing it with a 20 year old beater until you learn how to drive. Maybe don’t post for the entire world to see that you’re a moron.
  3. Rivian Assistant can properly pronounce Spanish names!

    As an American built vehicle it should use standard white trash American pronunciations. Get some ja-lop-en-os in your case-a-dila.
  4. R1T as firewood hauler

    Did the gen 2s get that much of an increase? Gen 1s were all right around 1600lbs. It can handle more weight but it’s not designed for it or legal in many states. Edit - a quick search says the gen 2s did in fact get a fairly significant increase in payload with the dual motor and smaller...
  5. Baking Cookies in a Rivian

    I’ll take 50° below zero before I’d take 100° any day of the week.
  6. R1T as firewood hauler

    Shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that a truck can haul wood. It can’t do a lot of it with a small bed and low(ish) payload but there’s no reason to not make it work for a living.
  7. Ford $30K Midsize EV Pickup (Ranchero) - News & Info

    As long as they aren’t Honda/Aston Martin F1 engineers.
  8. Charging w/portable battery?

    It all depends on how large of a capacity battery pack you have. Unless you already have one it’s probably a lot cheaper to carry a small generator and a gas can or two.
  9. Rear Brake rotors - casualty of high regen.

    It’s what places that don’t get very cold in the winter use on the roads.
  10. Market Reality Check: When do Gen 2 Quads drop to double digits?

    They will price themselves right out of the market if they try and charge nearly $140k for a R1 tri/quad. It’s simply not built well enough or at a quality point to be worth anything close to that. At the current prices it’s very questionable and only slightly justifiable because there are so...
  11. Why no Trailseeker/R2 comparisons?

    The R2 is about as much of an off-roader as a Jeep Renegade. It has some ground clearance and can manage some rough forest service roads but you aren’t rock crawling or doing serious trails in it. It’s built to suit an image that sells not for serious work.
  12. Would you go with 20" wheels or 21" wheels on Launch Edition R2?

    I wouldn’t worry about it. The 3PMSF is a joke and solely there to market tires. All it means is that tire had 10% better traction during acceleration on snow than the standard tire and doesn’t test anything with braking, cornering, ice, etc.
  13. Using the Rivian portable charger with a generator

    You need a neutral bonding plug. Easy to make from hardware store parts or to buy if you want.
  14. No real AM or FM radio in the R2

    It seems like a weird choice but I guess somewhere a bean counter weighed the slight cost savings of no radio hardware against the odds of reducing sales and the math worked out favorably for the company.
  15. Rivians have poor quality?

    Uh oh.





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