• taladar
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    3 months ago

    The old design looks like it was cobbled together by Elon Musk in his garage.

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        3 months ago

        I was mostly referring to the design mostly consisting of flat metal plates, something that hasn’t been common in cars or even very sturdy, long-lived work vehicles, pretty much ever since the WW2 era of vehicle design (e.g. 1948 Unimog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimog )

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      3 months ago

      The old model was named the Long Life Vehicle (LLV) for a reason. Ugly for sure, but rock sold. Designed in an era when the main concern was to last 6 digits on the odometer, powered by the iron duke engine. Moderately efficient at the time of its design in the late 70s, but absolutely dependable.