Cybertruck competitor's mid-gate

[MEDICALJMP]

Moan.

Why worry? You have to worry about the doors and windows and tailgate and vault tonneau?

-Crissa

Window and door seals are 100 years of proven technology. The 2 Avalanche owners I know who owned them longer than 5 or 6 years had issues. Operator error, bad design, poor materials — whatever the cause — it was a hassle and health issue with growing mold that took all pleasure out of the vehicle.

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[Crissa]

Window and door seals are 100 years of proven technology. The 2 Avalanche owners I know who owned them longer than 5 or 6 years had issues. Operator error, bad design, poor materials — whatever the cause — it was a hassle and health issue with growing mold that took all pleasure out of the vehicle.

But the mid-gate is a door and a window.

Some models just have leaking problems. That has nothing to do with a midgate.

-Crissa

 

[Ogre]

Not having a mid gate is less of a problem if you have a really good roof rack system. Speaking of, I don't see the interface on the latest mule. I was also looking forward to being able to stash the roof rack in the sail areas for storage. Now they appear to be gone.

My ROCC concept needs some heavy duty attachment points near the peak. A good rack for the CT will have 3 mounting locations. 2 need to be on the roof.

The early shots showed the truck with a lumber rack and a roof tent which would need some kind of rack setup. I’m sure they know it needs to be there. Hopefully it’ll be standard enough to just drop something in.

 

[flowerlandfilms]

What will all you Midgard Must-Haves do if Cybertruck does not have your beloved mid gate? Cancel your order, deal with it and moan loudly ?

If it comes with it, great. If Not, great? My big worry about a midgate is leakage of water, noise, air and failing seals.

Pray to Odin for an upgrade from Midgard to Asgard.

 

[MEDICALJMP]

Pray to Odin for an upgrade from Midgard to Asgard.

The more auto correct exists the more I despise it.
Yet I applaud your reference.

 

[MEDICALJMP]

But the mid-gate is a door and a window.

Some models just have leaking problems. That has nothing to do with a midgate.

-Crissa

Quote Elon, “The best part is no part.’’

 

[Dids]

Window and door seals are 100 years of proven technology. The 2 Avalanche owners I know who owned them longer than 5 or 6 years had issues. Operator error, bad design, poor materials — whatever the cause — it was a hassle and health issue with growing mold that took all pleasure out of the vehicle.

I think the leak issue was Chevy design and as a unibody vehicle adapted from the suburban a poor design at best.

 

[jhogan2424]

From now on when someone starts a thread about wanting a midgate, I’m going to start another thread about wanting radar. And I know nobody wants that?

 

[John Forde]

That's not a bar, that's a translucent image of the mid-gate. The gate is up in the top picture, but they are showing how much more space you get if you can put it down.

VERY HELPFUL. THANK YOU. I had no noticed that this was a photoshop.

 

[Bill906]

VERY HELPFUL. THANK YOU. I had no noticed that this was a photoshop.

Yeah, those dimensional lines aren't really on the truck either.

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself).

 

[JBee]

I don't mind the Chevy, and I actually like its midgate.

What surprises me though is that in any other parallel universe where Tesla and Cybertruck didn't exist, we'd probably be drooling over the F150 or the Chevy right now instead.

On the subject of "no part is the best part". I counter this with "no part equals no function". There's a balance between them, and you can't just keep removing parts until you have nothing left that does anything meaningful. Also, with the castings they aren't really reducing the part counts per se, as so much as melting all the parts into one big one instead. Sure it's better, but its stiil technically a part...I'd be happy to be proven wrong however, and that EM actually makes a zero part EV that I can pay exactly zero money for. ?

 

[fritter63]

Not gonna lie. I find the Silverado very compelling and attractive.

Except for the price ($107K, "final price set by dealer" ). Will be curious to see what the lower priced trim levels include.

The front end certainly looks better than the F-150 with that "I like big frunks and I cannot lie" hoodline.......

 

[Ogre]

The more auto correct exists the more I despise it.
Yet I applaud your reference.

You can disable it.

You have the power.

 

[John Forde]

You can disable it.

You have the power.

You can disable Otto collect?

 

[Ogre]

Yuo ca ncomptly disable atocrooct works fine.

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