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Check out the graphic on the nfc card, it shows where to place the nfc keys to revalidate. Shouldn't need to reach outside. (The wrist band is nfc)
Well homie, you will not be disappointed. When I configured, so few had ordered Limestone that I never saw it in person and even photos were hard to find at first. And when Limestones began to be spotted, they all had black interiors. And even rarer is the choice of brights for the truck - most go black shoes, but these rims do something special to the paint in the sun that makes it stand out even more . . . VERY happy with this unique configuration - bet it will not be so unique in very near future . . . ;-)
The manual indicates that an unmarked location on the interior driver's side door has an NFC reader for you to activate the vehicle for driving.
No, no it doesn't. While I haven't driven one on 22s, only the 20s, it's still a 7000 lbs truck. Yes, it's fast AF in a straight line and has good suspension. But it can't break the laws of physics and will *never* handle as well as a Lambo, Lotus, Miata, etc. Anyone saying it does clearly hasn't pushed a car to and/or beyond its limits. That said, it does handle better on a canyon road than a 7000 lbs truck has any right to, but it's no sports car, no matter how much an owner might want it to be.
This would be my only nitpick of the review, and of many of even the professional reviews I have read. The R1T may handle more like large sedan than a truck, but its not even close to a sports car. While still very impressive, I have to say I expected more out of the suspension, especially the hydraulic anti-roll system. Sport mode is also disappointing, but I think that is due primarily to the bounciness in low mode. I wish I could set sport mode to normal height. I'll take the higher center of gravity. I'm hoping in time they will allow more customization of the drive modes, and possibly a way to dial in the dampening and anti-roll levels. As it is now, I run in all purpose most of the time because I need to go into low for my parking garage, but on the weekends when not going to work in run in Rally.
My Rivian on 22s handles as good as any sports car I've ever driven hard on public roads, but I'm not one of those reckless idiots that will put other people at risk doing so, and I haven't had the opportunity to take it to a road track yet. The torque vectoring is really quite amazingly well done. I couldn't put my foot to the floor inside a hard corner in my c5 Z06 without the rear end getting squirrelly, but I can do it in the Rivian. You can definitely feel the power coming on as you straighten the wheel out. I've broken it loose on a rainy day but not on dry pavement.
I autocross and track my vehicles a lot. It's fun as hell, but it's also kind of ruined performance driving for me on the street because once you've driven a vehicle at 10/10ths, driving it at 5-6/10ths on the street just isn't fun anymore. You're totally right though, the torque vectoring on the R1 is impressive and a big reason I want a quad-motor model vs dual-motor. Though off-road it seems like a dual-motor with locking diffs could be a better options, but they haven't announced locking diffs.
