i would not want to use my "new car" as the test bed for the manufactures R&D, so would that be Speed doing the testing? like someone else beating up the owners car to find and weak areas?, their fuel, etc? or is that the owner taking days out of their schedule to drive their own cars somewhere other than where they would want to drive them (like on their own trips)?
It would be the customers taking out their rides. Those 9 cars sitting in Havasu are in essence additional testers for Speed. Unfortunately other than the few days they got to drive them they have been parked for the transmission and some to fix other issues that popped up during the initial ride days.
OEMs put 50-100lbs of computer hardware in their mules to datalog EXACTLY what happened when something failed...
How far they’ve come? They’re not even close to being ready for sale.
Nevermind the "chemtrails" they do not exist, just look into my pen.I was in San Diego one day and saw an airplane flying unusual patterns. I used the MyRadar App and it listed "Voodoo1" as a Chemtrail aircraft, flying above me. I did some more research and found it has tanks, on board for releasing chemicals. That article no longer exists, for some reason.
Voodoo Contrails over Los Angeles – Contrail Science
Are you saying that the 500 cars scheduled for May are now being delayed until the trans is fixed, installed in the Havasu customer cars and then re-tested?
I agree. I like the suspension and the way it sits at full droop as opposed to the Polaris. They usually call a car without a drivetrain a 'glider' and I think there'd be a market for SPEED there.
Who knows at this point. Allegedly there were additional cars that were on their way from China and on the boat a few weeks after those 12 cars made it to Havasu. There has been nothing showing they arrived. Were they on the boat and sent back or we they never on the boat?
Hey, other OEMs use dudes in labcoats and test engineers in controlled environments for years to iron as much out as possible before thousands of hours of field testing with more engineers (and still fail to get everything), Robby has his teenage son smash it against some rocks for an hour and calls it good. :biggrin:
When they identified the transmission issue, they halted shipping the next batch, and the shipment after that, and so forth.
Do you recall him saying after the first 12 arrived that the next round of 12 was on the ship and heading to the U.S.?
No, I recall him telling me, personally, that the next batch was about to ship. That was probably Feb around the first week of February.
