You seem to have totally missed the entire point of the review. Car and Driver gave Rivian an "Editor's Choice Award", which they give only to "...the top new cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, and electric vehicles for sale today."
Bottom line, Car and Driver
liked the Rivian. They
really liked the Rivian. This is not a "bad" review. They pointed out some minor issues they found while acknowledging that they were evaluating what they called a "prototype".
The video review was released more than a month ago, and we've talked about it in other threads here. If you want to discuss that video review, find the other thread and contribute there after reading what everyone else said. Again, Car and Driver is very
positive about the Rivian overall.
It seems like you cherry-picked what you wanted to hear and jumped to conclusions. And then copy-and-pasted your conclusions in half a dozen different and unrelated threads (Like this one about the "Colorado Delivery Center Event"), maximizing the spread of your misinformation. If you want to have a discussion, please stop cross-posting because that does everyone a disservice. Start a new thread or participate in one of the existing threads about the Car and Driver review.
BTW all the reviews I've seen that call out some panel gaps in the pre-production vehicles also mention that Rivian is already better than Tesla in that respect, even though Tesla has built millions and should be better than Rivian by now. (They also said it was a lot quieter than a Model 3, which they described as surprising.) All indications are that Rivian's manufacturing ramp-up has been addressing the gaps and the other minor issues, and that after building a few thousand non-prototypes Rivian is improving.
They never mention how long it takes to stop the 3-ton vehicle though.
Well, yes they did. They described their braking test, and they said the Rivian stopped in 177ft. (70-0 etc.). They compared it to the RAM TRX (which is a bit lighter) which stopped in 189ft in the same test.