I always have to look at the drivers to see if they look as stupid as their truck

Lol gross.

No lie the first cybertruck I saw in person was purple

Cybertruck vs Lightning drag race on sand. Video at bottom of article.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/cybertruck-drag-races-f-150-lightning-on-sand-one-should-have-just-stayed-on-a-sunlounger-234790.html

Quote from: giant_mtb on June 01, 2024, 08:15:38 AMI've never even seen a FWD Equinox in real life.

Lots of them where it doesn't ever snow...

I got the dyno curves from APR's website, got the revised shift points, and then made the graph.

Stage 3 is generally accepted to be an aftermarket turbo. Zero mods required otherwise for APR's stage 3. True, it doesn't have the power of other stage 3 setups, but thing is no other aftermarket tuner provides a complete stage 3 kit - tune from company X, turbo from company Y, required supporting mods (usually a new fuel pump) from company Z. It's a major PITA, plus your vehicle will not be smog legal and the exhaust will stink to high heaven without the factory cat.

The base 1LT is launching later this year for like $35k, which is $28k after tax credit. Will they actually be available to buy in any sort of volume? Who knows.

I think the Blazer is the one that won't sell well, due to the size similarity and its higher price.

Bolts big selling point and niche was its price. This Equinox is in no way a replacement for the Bolt. Its slightly larger than the Model Y, Mach-E, ID.4, and similarly priced EV CUV's and in some cases it will be a little cheaper when they are apples to apples in battery size and AWD.

I suspect this will either be a sales dud or will need significant discounting to make it sell in even OK volumes.

If it had been smaller (<185 inches long) and cheaper (under 40k with AWD and nicely equipped) I'd have considered it. When it was announced as a "Bolt Replacement that will offer AWD" that is what I had expected. They way overshot on price IMHO and it is only slightly (~2 inches) shorter than the Chevy Blazer EV.

Quote from: CaminoRacer on June 01, 2024, 07:59:01 AMBut the frame won't crack in half like a gigacasted Tesla

The Bolt did well and this is better than the Bolt

Bolt doesn't compete in price with Tesla though.