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On the type of terrain they were on a raptor would run circles around a CT. As for the racks and topper in the picture. I’m not sure how you could put a safari rack on the CT with the goofy pointy roof. Flat roof cyber SUV?

My guess is overheated something. Most likely the air suspension or diffs. Jeeps with air suspension shut down commonly when off road on high frequency stretches as air suspensions generate a tremendous amount of heat from all the compression of the air.

VIN’s are usually not sequential for long number series. Aside from 1,2,3 they are usually all over the map. Different trims are very different in the series. what I’m getting at is just because high-low=>8000 does not at all mean that >8k have been produced.

Super long road trips? This set up will Get you 100-150 miles of reliable usable range. Also no Weight distribution set up on a 6k+ trailer seems sketchy.

For a motor home would probably have to extend the frame. But for just putting a truck bed drop in on the existing frame I wouldn’t see why they would. But who knows.

Sign me up as well. Tesla Semi with a truck topper. I’d do an arctic fox or Lance. Something like this probably would be not much more then the CT+pebble.

It is priced “from” $125k so who knows what it will come in at. The tanks are pitifully small, the battery may be 7 days off grid but with only 37 gallons of fresh water good luck going that long. My camper has a 70 gallon fresh water tank and with my family of 4 we can only get by for 4-5...

Good choice. Rules of thumb for off road (and track cars) is run the smallest rims that will fit over the brakes. For anything you will off road or overland rim diameter should be at most ~1/2 the tire outer diameter. I know a ton of guys that run 17’s with 33-34’s and 18’s with 35+. For the...

AWD crossovers can be much more capable than trucks. I saw a wrangler Rubicon on the other day with 34” tires on 24” rims. A Subaru/Rav4/…. On appropriate (small) rims with all seasons would run circles around it on most off road situations. Tires and rims are the #1 factor off road.

Well for me what was most surprising was the CT didn’t blow a tire, scary close to a pinch flat multiple times…. 🫣 Crappy suspension, crappy traction control, big rims, long WB, And the driver was unskilled which didn’t help. Also the spotters, I’m surprised none got run over. “Hey y’all...

I wish it was most of us, in terms of the population of the US.

I don’t think “twitter post” and “well researched” go in the same context…. Ever. .

But when they didn’t stop, they continued to lose $$$ on every vehicle sold. You can say all day that each product sold is profitable but when the company is losing money even due to expansion and RnD, they are not. They couldn’t expand and develop without the money they were investing into...

Do you believe this crap? What about the roadster? Model S? Model X? Tesla lost money on every vehicle sold until some time in 2019. Tesla was circling the drain up until the model 3 release. And would long be under if the 3/Y hadn’t been a large success. Elon was begging Apple (or...

What truck do you have? What was your tire swap? Did you go from 30-32” tires on 18” to 34” tires on 24” rims? No way in a million years fuel efficiency is reduced the same in an ICE truck vs EV. Just based on the pure physics. An ICE truck is rolling along using 1800-2500 wh/mi when you...