Telo Claims Its Tiny Truck Was Designed To Get You 'flipped Off Or Yelled At Instead Of Sued'

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There whitethorn beryllium nary guarantee the mini Telo MT1 will ever spell connected sale, but I'm besides not going to dress I don't desperately want to spot it succeed. I mean, it's truthful mini and weird. How could you not want this institution to waste a cardinal of them? Heck, it'll moreover drift if you want it to. It's fundamentally nan coolest point I've seen this decade, and if that makes maine weird, truthful beryllium it. I'd alternatively thrust an adorable small electrical motortruck and beryllium weird than beryllium a normal loser for illustration everyone else.

But while nan Telo motortruck is astir nan size of a two-door Mini Cooper, arsenic nan institution points retired successful its latest promotional video, it isn't astir arsenic mini arsenic you mightiness think. According to Telo, it designed nan compartment "to somewhat hit nan dimensions of nan Toyota Tacoma successful each way," and I don't perceive excessively galore group complaining nan Tacoma is excessively small. Maybe they exist, but I judge haven't met them. The group I meet mostly emotion nan Tacoma. Plus, nan Telo tin fresh a 4x8 expanse of plywood successful its furniture pinch nan rear divider down.

In fact, if nan video is to beryllium believed, there's moreover capable abstraction wrong nan MT1 to comfortably fresh aggregate 6'5" people, and nan 6'8" feline they recovered still had plentifulness of headroom, moreover pinch gangly hair. Heck, they moreover recovered a 6'10" feline (who judge looks a batch for illustration MotorTrend's Alex Leanse) who said he "definitely fresh inside." Of course, everyone connected nan net is ace tall, and there's nary bully measurement to fact-check their claims, but arsenic a 6'6" man pinch nan assemblage of a Greek god, this is awesome news for me, personally. Wait, why are you laughing? I said extremity laughing.

From nan infinitesimal Telo revealed nan MT1, nan main mobility everyone had was astir safety. After all, nan motortruck isn't conscionable tiny. It's truthful cab-forward that there's fundamentally nary hood. As a motorcycle rider, I'm beautiful judge moreover nan astir unsafe car you tin legally waste will ever beryllium safer than a motorcycle, but according to Telo, nan MT1's creation includes a 14-inch crumple zone. Plus, successful nan arena of a crash, there's nary motor up beforehand that could get shoved into nan rider compartment. 

As Telo points out, mini vehicles besides make it easier to navigate tight spaces, making it little apt that you'll get into a low-speed clang in, say, a parking lot. And without a agelong hood successful beforehand of you, you're little apt to deed thing aliases personification if you person to extremity quickly. In a business wherever a far-bigger Ford Maverick would person deed a pedestrian, Telo says nan driver of an MT1 "might conscionable get flipped disconnected aliases yelled astatine alternatively of sued." 

As we each know, automotive journalists are incredibly able and often nan targets of frivolous litigation, truthful this is besides bully news for me, personally. Also, sidesplitting group pinch your car is bad, and I judge it would beryllium amended if less group did that, actually.

Of course, we'll still request to spot nan existent clang trial results earlier we tin state nan Telo MT1 safe capable to drive, but you person to admit, nan video makes a beardown lawsuit for itself. It's besides wholly imaginable Telo still won't make it to accumulation and moreover much apt that if it does, its mini motortruck won't waste successful monolithic numbers, but travel on. Don't dress you don't want to spot these things connected nan road, going astir their adorable small motortruck business.