COdogman
Well-Known Member
I get it. We all have certain things in mind when we consider and decide to purchase a vehicle, and either those things we wanted work out or they don’t. I would bet more than half of the Rivians purchased never see an off road trail at all and that tells you people are buying them for all different reasons - even a garbage truck capable of smoking most performance carsI agree that all designs take up space, but there Is space available now. Also it’s worth noting that something like a trifold is much less cumbersome on a full bed because of the extra space to start with. What I primarily use my truck space for is taking my household garbage to the dump.
My large garbage can wouldn’t fit in the bed if I had a tri fold tonneau taking up space in there. Now I’d be looking at taking the cover completely off at least once a week which would get extremely old and would make me move to a larger truck, pay the 50 bucks a month to get private trash collection or just run without a tonneau at all.
On its face it doesn’t seem like a huge issue, but I bought this specific truck with these things in mind. I also really like the C8 vette. If I was getting trash collection and I just needed to borrow a truck sporadically I could make that work, and a full size truck doesn’t fit in my indoor garage which ads parking as an issue.
Basically this seemingly minor issue with the tonneau cascades into a major pain in my ass and could have potentially lead to me making an entirely different purchasing decision. For example if I didn’t have my truck already with the powered tonneau I would not be taking delivery on a truck devoid of the tonneau.
I love my truck, but I don’t off-road at all. My truck has left sport mode a handful of times since I bought it. The added functionality of the bed for garbage was really the major factor for me going to the R1 over a mid life crisis mobile like a C8 or some other ridiculously limited use performance vehicle.
I really hope Rivian’s redesigned powered tonneau is the best solution and if proves good enough I would even have it installed in mine too. I love the idea of it. I just didn’t have any faith in that first version at all. Other than having a fiberglass topper on one truck (which I didn’t really like), I’ve never even had a cover for a truck bed so I’m mostly in the camp of it not being make or break for me either way.
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