I saw my first in the wild yesterday at the park near my house. It was a cool color.
dculberson said:I saw my first in the wild yesterday at the park near my house. It was a cool color.
Yellow, green, or blue?
It went home on Sunday morning. I was really, really impressed with it. We put $25 of expensive charging (we're not members, didn't have the app, etc. etc.) on it at a walmart just to see. It put about 100 miles on it in less than 30 minutes. Also did a free charger in the city center. It gave us about 17 miles in 45 minutes while I was getting a haircut.
I think the best question on here was Toymans - would I spend $80k on one. I optioned one out the way I'd want it, and it came to $83k.
Optioning out a Ford Lightning I would say that for the stripped down work truck, about $53k less $7.5k, coming to $45.5k. This didn't have the range I wanted. 240 miles, which is good for 99%, but it means stopping on 3-4 hour trips. Probably just 10 minutes, and honestly that is fine, but I like not stopping when I go to the lake. But for $40k difference, I would be ok with the stop.
As soon as you bumped up to an XLT, however, you get a big bump in price, still with just the 240 range. And it is $21k to get the 320 mile range.
In short, I'd be between a $45k work truck, and an $83k Rivian. If I was my dad, who has a lot more expendable income and is nearly 70, I'd go for the Rivian. Me, I just can't afford it, and would go with the Lightning base work truck.
But the truth is, I can't afford either, so it doesn't matter. I really loved my time with the truck. It was excellent in just about every way. I miss it, and my wife misses it as well.
In reply to tremm :
First, she liked how cool it was. She liked picking up kiddo from daycare in it, especially since there are probably more Tesla's, Mercedes, and BMWs than any other brand at our daycare. And while that may be shallow, the entire reason I want half of the cars that I do are because they're cool.
Outside of that...
She liked the idea of never going to a gas station again.
She liked that it was a pickup truck, but she still had locking storage.
She liked that it was electric, FAST, and quiet.
"Never have to visit a gas station again" is a strong draw.
Saw couple in the wild at the Woodward Dream Cruise event in Detroit last week. I really like the look and appreciate the performance. We had a working event and spent a fair amount of time doing customer ride-alongs in fast and quiet ev's. We also had a handful of cool hotrods doing ride-alongs for the old school Detroit feeling.
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