Top
Best
New

Posted by b_mc2 9 hours ago

REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500(reotrucks.com)
78 points | 124 commentspage 2
raver1975 8 hours ago|
The website is black on black, not easy for me to see at all.
lostlogin 7 hours ago|
The truck photos are too.
bilsbie 8 hours ago||
At this point the killer feature would be: privacy, control of your own vehicle, and repair ability.

Does it offer this? Wish someone would make that product.

pudgywalsh 8 hours ago||
That's what they claim. Right to repair and direct parts sales.
BatFastard 7 hours ago||
Pretty sure Slate offer exactly this.
serf 6 hours ago||
the site almost sells you on a ford maverick

"Wow, the same style engine, a reputable dealership network, a hybrid system with battery, and a turbo charger for only another 7 grand?"

jeffrogers 8 hours ago||
Makes sense to me... the Toyota mini trucks of the 80s/90s were super useful and Tacomas are basically full-sized and not as efficient.
nico_h 9 hours ago||
Is there anything special in making a $21k gas truck in 2026? I’m guessing you could get a second hand gas truck for this price?
scrapcode 8 hours ago||
Similar competition (Nissan Frontier, Ford Ranger, etc.) would start at around $35k these days.
cenamus 8 hours ago||
They show a 28k Ford in the comparison.
scrapcode 5 hours ago||
Ah, I didn't realize (nor that it was possible) they made a shittier version of the Ranger.
nonethewiser 8 hours ago|||
I think you should try and make the case that its not special. Considering a $21k new gas truck doesn’t exist currently.
jollyllama 7 hours ago||
> How it stacks up.

Pretty much says it all. I'll take two.

Not to mention, a real body-on-frame SUV. Can you even get one of those new for < 35k?

tailscaler2026 8 hours ago|||
Ford Maverick starts at $28k, and they're running about $3k in incentives at the moment. So it's a competitive price but nothing too wild versus what we have already.
davidsainez 7 hours ago||
The Maverick is a different class of vehicle: it has a unibody with no mechanical 4x4.
lostnfound8778 8 hours ago|||
There are golf carts/lsv's that cost 15k-20k these days and a fiat 500 is 25k iirc, for perspective
maroziza 8 hours ago|||
The main reason is scale and support, here in ukraine we bought all 21k pickups in europe, it is very hard to sustain tham at same time, so if you have any enterprise you'd want a park of SAME vehicle, so for single buy - yes, it will your beloved hilux for rest of your long life. but if you want 100 pickups, 1000? and parts are scarse now. and than you can even customize them. but even in retail you will have extra support and guarantee for new pickup. Steering rack is just unabtainium here, so there will be every other part for 20 year SUV/Pickup soon.
lostlogin 7 hours ago||
> here in ukraine we bought all 21k pickups in europe

I wasn’t aware of this - this article mentions 100k purchases in the first 2 years of the war.

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-war-rely-pickup-truc...

Glyptodon 8 hours ago|||
This is an appealing price point for the US market for what it is. I suspect outside of the US you'd need to be a little cheaper still, I hear there are various kinds of trucks under $10k in India for example, though I really have no idea about their size or specs.
Forgeties79 8 hours ago|||
Depends on the truck. Pickups in the US can get very expensive very quickly, they’re basically luxury vehicles and they retain their value better for some reason I haven’t really looked in to. Budget trucks are not as plentiful, $21,500 is a pretty competitive price.
bnjms 7 hours ago||
They retain their value because they _are_ useful for real work and are mostly built for longer lives. Even if new purchases are for luxury reasons used purchases have prices pushed up for working people.
ErroneousBosh 8 hours ago|||
My current daily is dual-fuel (petrol and LPG) and cost £250, but I got quite a good deal on it.

I tow quite heavy things with it, taking 3500kg trailers a long way off road.

cpursley 9 hours ago|||
Sure, a Tacoma with 100k miles on it already...
markn951 8 hours ago||
Except it’s supposed to launch in 2029 at the earliest?
dzonga 7 hours ago||
can they pull this off - maybe - IDK the team - but this is possible.

cause of concern?

- i4 gas engine instead of using 4 electric motors - then using smaller engine to act as generator. plenty of Chinese have done this - quickest way to start a car company. otherwise they're gonna find out real soon - why other auto manufacturers went out of business or why reliability is a cause of concern even for big manufacturers. engines and powertrains can be complex.

electric motors are simpler.

btbuildem 8 hours ago||
It'd be great if they could come up with a photo of the truck. But an alternative to the oversized absurdities we have on the roads these days can't come soon enough.
3327 8 hours ago|
[dead]
tclancy 6 hours ago||
I need to know if Ransom Olds is involved or not.
GuestFAUniverse 8 hours ago||
What have the Dodo, a Fisker and that in common?

Well, you all know the answer.

par 8 hours ago|
Do that not have any pictures of it?
doodlebugging 6 hours ago|
Today it only exists in the imagination of the company CEO and a few trusted others, none of whom have figured out how to hire someone with automobile CAD experience to produce a mock-up that might increase interest for their proposed product.
More comments...