Yeah, too bad the rest of the world exists. A lot of us are off the buy American train for the next 3 or so years. The fact that Rivians are basically unobtainium due to tariffs up here definitely points to IX3 over the R2 for me right now.
How do they plan on repairing these things when they inevitably break? Take it to a Rivian service center? LOL. Regular bike shops won’t touch this thing.
Rivian is basically dead up here. They won't eat the tariffs like Ford and GM so the pricing is ridiculous. No leasing up either, no gear shop etc... I was speaking with my local service rep (only 4 service centers in the country BTW) and he said its dead 3-4 days a week. He's hoping the R2...
Got some huge updates for MY26
-800v architecture
-new 106kWh pack which is smaller but lighter resulting in the same range as before
-new motors up to 680hp on performance trim (up from 510hp)
-Electrochromatic Pano roof
-Nappa leather
-New more powerful Compute Core (2025s will get...
My folks have an IX and it’s been a wonderful vehicle for them. Smooth and quiet like few other vehicles and it just works! (never had to reset it once) If they can get the ix3 close to that level of refinement without air suspension/rear wheel steering then this is their next car, because the...
There is supposed to be a big software update that will fix a lot of the remaining glitches and random errors by the end of the summer (whenever that is in Volvo speak). However the 3% per day phantom drain and Lidar activation won't be fixed until they move to the updated Nvidia Orin chip...