Brand-new Rivian R1T found in an auction yard by man who couldn’t believe what he found in tailbed

A man found an abandoned Rivian R1T in a car graveyard.

The truck was involved accident, but it looks relatively okay, all things considered.

It looks fine at the front, sort of fine on the side, but something went wrong with the rear section.

What went wrong exactly is revealed by what the YouTuber found in the truck bed.

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Is this Rivian R1T a bargain?

The guy who runs the Auto Auction Rebuilds YouTube channel found this Rivian R1T in a Copart yard.

When he saw it, he couldn’t work out what was wrong with it, because clearly the truck hadn’t been crashed.

Upon close inspection, the problem became clear.

A tree seemed to have fallen on it, breaking a bunch of things in the process.

The roof was damaged, the truck bed cover was smashed, and the rear windshield was also shattered.

The truck doesn’t open, or start, but this is probably just because the battery is dead.

Also, the Rivian R1T is fitted with yellow brake calipers, which were usually reserved for the 835-horsepower quad-motor version.

The R1T is a good truck, and if the engine works fine, which granted is a big ‘if’, this might be a great find.

About Copart yards

Copart is a company that specializes in selling and auctioning cars involved in accidents.

They’ve got entire (massive) graveyards full of supercars and luxury cars.

To be fair, we used the word ‘damaged’ quite loosely.

For every Rivian R1T with mild damage such as this one, there are supercars that sell for big bucks even when they’ve been totaled.

That’s the case with a blue and ‘faceless’ McLaren MC20 that sold for six figures.

Then there’s the McLaren Artura that sold for six figures even though both the front and the rear section, and both flanks, were heavily damaged.