Panamalt

We should be way more up-in-arms about this

In the 90s, barebones basic ass trucks were literally everywhere, complete with no features and endless possibilities. The only 'new' thing about the Slate is that it's powered by electrons instead of thermodynamics.

Only one threat to public safety that I can see, and it sure as shit didn't cross any borders

Why not both?

What if this hypothetical booby-trap happens to be a fire suppression system that dispenses BandAids after ejecting the fascist piglets back out the front door at 300psi?

Yeah, don't pay more money to not have any of that.

Doesn't that just mean the already rich assholes win?

You should pay for what your actually getting. If the vehicle has fewer features and less complexity, then it is necessarily cheaper and easier to produce (Both in mechanical and human labour.), and therefore the final product should also cost less for the consumer. Any dollar amount above that is used to improve the product in some way. Or, much more likely in this case, considering Bozo's involvement, is used to line the bloated pockets of executive clowns with more imaginary money than any human being can ever possibly conceive of spending ethically.

Chevy S10, Ford Courier, Dodge Dakota, GMC S15 . . .

. . . wait, half those are Japanese.

Honestly, $20k for something this barebones is reaaallly pushing it. The more I think about it, the more it feels like an $80 remaster of a 35 year old game with half the dlc missing. Maybe for $12-15k and a basic am/fm, and I'd be less irked.

There is a very good reason we have tried to put basically every type of audio system in a car at least once. Driving in silence all the time fuckin sucks donkey balls, and bring-your-own phone/ speaker is a garbage solution, even for a truck that's barely more than a harbor freight special.

Otherwise, this is a pretty sick idea, and it might help solve some of the other more important problems the automotive industry has been having.

Yall need to learn some basic fucking economics.

When price is high, nobody buys a thing, then there are too many things, and the price comes back down to get people to buy the thing again. Then when price is low, everyone buys a thing a thing and the price goes back up. It's a natural pendulum well outside of the control of a singular president.

Pretty sure a toddler could've told you the Orange Cunt was a pile of morally-oblivious feces.