Is this guy for real? He wants to do tank turns on pavement? ...And tank turns weren't even "enabled" by RIVN at last check.
These are guys are def in cahoots with Elon. And doesn't Bloomberg have a massive stake in Tesla? BUSTED
I wasn’t going to reply since I usually avoid leaving any negative comments (plenty of that already out there). But I had to get this off my chest.
Sandy
is for real. As an engineer with 30 years of experience, I can spot the real engineers and the frauds out there and Sandy is definitely the former. He is a bit of a curmudgeon and is very opinionated about – well everything – but he has the engineering ability & experience to back it up.
There are 2 more checkpoints for me going through with the purchase on my Rivian and Sandy’s teardown is one of them. The other is seeing & driving it in person. And his tear down holds much more weight than the other. I’ve been watching his tear down videos for about a year now and have learned a ton about the design & execution of EVs – and other vehicles too. I am incredibly stoked that they are getting their R1T soon, I will be obsessively watching their videos. His tear down of the R1T will provide more real information about the Rivian than all the other review videos I have seen to this point combined. It’s great to hear people gushing about how fast they are and much they love or hate the ride quality, but in the end that’s all subjective.
He definitely is a huge promoter of Tesla (and other well executing companies too) but he bases it on real data that is in front of him. So he didn’t know that tank turn was delayed and will be geo-fenced? That’s probably because he wasn’t poring over every meager scrap of info that leaks out about Rivian. He is out tearing down and examining vehicles and helping to refine their designs. He also said he didn’t
know how to make it work on pavement, which just indicated that he hasn’t been obsessing over the tiny bits of info Rivian has let slip over the past few years.
I know this is pretty strongly worded, but in a world of influencers and self-proclaimed “experts” declaring their opinions as totem, I think it’s incredibly lucky that there is someone out there like Sandy Munro who relies on facts and actually explains why he says what he says.