The Slate truck looks neat, and reminds me of the last time a Detroit automaker tried to build an ultra-low cost vehicle: the 1997 Chrysler CCV. Color-molded composite body panels were its main calling card, and Chrysler worked on that idea for years before setting it aside.
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- The project was always explicitly a developing market thing. The plastic construction made it unable to comply with any crash safety regulations. Even in the 90s.
- It also was being worked on just shortly before the merger with Daimler, after that it was axed.