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Just as a side note I don’t think the Model Y RWD was ever fully cancelled outside the US. It’s been constantly available in Europe, and still is.

So someone just happened to bump into the most anticipated vehicle of this decade, not just anywhere, but off-roading, which it has never been shown attempting before, and they feel it’s only worth taking a couple of seconds of it doing … almost nothing? This ‘leak’ really stretches credulity!

Tesla’s basic vehicles are actually quite bland. So it was with great surprise and excitement that I witnessed the unveiling of the Cybertruck. Now we are currently quite starved for options when it comes to offroad capable abusable EVs (especially in Europe where there’s a grand total of 0)...

Yeah… I can give you a nope on that one :D (Of course in theory it is less, but not by a big degree, you’ll still get a lot. Even pretty steep roofs get buildup, albeit less)

Indeed. In the past Tesla hasn’t always been great at that. Round here they have a reputation of being a ‘Californian company’ ;)

Sure, but if something is shaped in a way that collects ice, it becomes a more frequent nuisance. And if it has a zillion little gaps, like the vault cover, it could potentially be way more problematic.

Sure, those places count. Sorry if I sounded dismissive, but sometimes people claim things about winter driving yet live in Miami :)

I honestly don’t really care much for a motorised frunk lid either, but I know everyone seems to be frothing about it. Motorised lids tend to be slow and break. I’m really not sure what that significant utility is that you mention but I’d be perfectly fine closing a gate myself and to have one...

In snowy/icy places?

Of course anything like that will require sometimes a fair bit of scraping to operate (the boot on the 3 would sometimes get thoroughly immobile). But if you have a concave shape it will attract even more ice and snow. Might just be something to live with, assuming the rubber and mechanism isn't...

Gosh, do you remember when we had to use our own arms to operate something? It was horrible.

I honestly don't know, because I don't know if trucks have these kinds of bed covers in cold climates. Here vans outnumber pickup trucks 30 to 1, and the pickups you see will generally have a reason to be a pickup (equipment or whatnot), so don't need a cover, or will have a cover that has an...

Snow is relatively easy of course. Ice less so… Frequently you have to literally hammer it and the buttons look concaved so will be a magnet for ice. If ice gets between the gaps on the vault cover that could prevent it from working at all, and be very tricky to clear out.

Yeah, they just look like they’re positioned in a way that is likely to collect a lot of the white stuff so might be quite a constant thing. Unless they are heated somehow.

Best use of powered lid ever. Then again it might be impressive to rehearse and perform the fully synchronised manual equivalent.

Or just pushing / pumping down on it to squeeze that last piece of luggage in.

I still wonder how those, and indeed the whole vault, will work when there’s ice and snow around.

Hear hear. It’s difficult to understand the infatuation with having powered lids that will eventually break and require costly repairs, and which are actually slower than doing it by hand.

Oh I don’t pay for it :) That is kind of OK on the desktop if you can put up with ads. On mobile the free version doesn’t really work. The track names are in the post if you fancy digging them out elsewhere.

Oh I get it. I’ve seen this GIF before. But it is exaggerating things. The difference isn’t as big as it makes it appear. Just look at some videos, there is still the pronounced nose there, which kind of disappears in this picture. It’s just a bit rounder. The RC versions are shorter than the...