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Old 26-04-2025, 08:40 AM   #1
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Interesting concept as a bare bones pickup. Will be interesting if they get it into production

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormu...o-musks-tesla/
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Old 26-04-2025, 10:59 PM   #2
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Sounds like a dealership in GTA V
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Old 26-04-2025, 11:58 PM   #3
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Interesting concept as a bare bones pickup. Will be interesting if they get it into production

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormu...o-musks-tesla/

will sell better than that 'truck' Tesla sells.......
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Old 27-04-2025, 10:32 AM   #4
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Lots of videos released on this thing. All PR obviously

https://youtu.be/kWq3jhxOWUI?si=-tImNWcHld7lnP4x

Quite interesting concept where they encourage customisation.
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Old 27-04-2025, 03:40 PM   #5
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I have been waiting to see how long it took a car company to come up with this idea.
It is like a Lego car.
Sell a basic bare bones vehicle and let people go to town on what they want to mod or improve.
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Old 27-04-2025, 07:45 PM   #6
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Like the Citroën H van, first released 1947.
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That’s the easy bit, actually building and selling it for US$20,000 is much harder to do…
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$20,000US, bare bones wagon version with key entry and a small block Chev sign me up.
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There are a lot of interesting concept vehicles at the moment.

Here is another one which is similar. The Telos.

I guess we have to wait and see if any of them make it here.



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