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Refreshed 2021+ Model X and Model X Plaid waiting room
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SubtractEm
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Definitely appreciate this insight. I also ordered an RS1 - now it sits at $97k - almost identical to my early 2021 ordered MX. Rivian's refundable $1000 deposit will likely come back to me soon. I am waiting for MXLR 5-seater - long wait probably (longer than 6 and potentially longer than 7).
In working with Rivian, it definitely makes me appreciate Tesla; Tesla is willing to honor pricing from more than a year before potential purchase - after price changes. Although, Rivian's price increase does seem to be primarily from a change in supported configurations.
mine was delivered today with new tail lights and charge port.
Saw a poll that showed over 70% of Rivian preorder folks have cancelled their orders! Not a good day for Rivian in the market...
Great observation. My R1S order went up by over $18K. My main burn was that items in the initial configuration for the R1S are now "options", like the 4 motors, which is the primary reason for the significant cost increase. The other item that was hard to understand is the additional cost for the interior color scheme. Surely Rivian knew if a particular color was more expensive to produce and it wasn't just a revelation to them.
Based on Rivian's stock price in today's trading, they are going to need to be in serious damage control mode.
Sixth
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Correct, it is from my experience I feel this way, and from that the built in manufacturers systems (I’ve recently in the last 5-6 years had Lexus, Benz, and currently drive an acura and bmw in the family) and the manufacturers, at least these ones have not done much to advance their existing systems beyond updating maps, even that is infrequent. Yes they have enabled apple CarPlay/android auto, but that is just an interface implementation on their part and apple/google doing all the work with updates. I’m always worried if apple ever changes or tweaks their CarPlay interface/code, these legacy manufacturers may not keep up without delays, breaking carplay in the meantime. This happened w my Acura around time of iOS 13 or iOS 14 release at one point and was very frustrating w CarPlay crashing until an update was released by Acura maybe a month later. Even with bmw, the idrive version that their cars comes with stays the same pretty much throughout the life of a car.
Having said that I do love apple CarPlay and it’s the only thing that has not aged in my current bmw and Acura. And I am sad not to be able to use Waze in my my upcoming tesla. We know Tesla keeping theirs cars updated in terms of software and features is something tesla is known for and it’s one of their advertising points and owners likes compared to traditional cars, something I see an advantage in and was simply pointing out.
It does sound like Volvo maybe is more proactive in updating their cars, that is really good to hear and I appreciate you sharing as I do not have any experience with Volvos cars but have heard good things about them.
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I would have, except the nice man that delivered the car, said I had 20 rims, where in fact I have 22’s. So it wouldve been a waste of time To ask any questions. He was super nice though!
greidy
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Finally picked up my Plaid after a year and 6 days of waiting! Vehicle arrived in ATL yesterday and was built Feb 4th so took over 3 weeks just to get it here from the west coast.
Had some issues - broken trim in the driver door handle and the 2nd row driver side seat is locked up and won’t move forward/back. Service scheduled for Monday.
Other than that I’d say definitely worth the wait, the thing is nuts!
Had some issues - broken trim in the driver door handle and the 2nd row driver side seat is locked up and won’t move forward/back. Service scheduled for Monday.
Other than that I’d say definitely worth the wait, the thing is nuts!
Not closing. Widening at an ever faster rate. There are ZERO deployments of other charging options that would be considered reliable and convenient enough to take long multi thousand mile road trips. DC faster charging deployments that have 1 or 2 stations do not count because you can't rely on them like gas stations like you can with superchargers.
I cancelled my Rivian R1S order since the move yesterday of such a major price increase makes me worried about their management and therefore their future - to have misjudged pricing so much where your negative gross margin is so poor gives me pause. If it was a $100 deposit then I would probably wait and see but the deposit is enough where I don't want to throw it away if something happens to them. So I will wait for a couple years to ensure they can get a consumer product into mass production and then reconsider. They really had seemed to have learned from others with their comments over the last couple years but once they went public and tried to produce cars, you see a lot of issues with the company.
The twitter user Ice.. was talking about this earlier in this thread. He says that SA is very knowledgeable so may be true
meaning that twitter user is also a user in TMC
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