Rivian is saying it hears its customers loud and clear, and if they want to get themselves into a shiny new R1T, they’ll have the opportunity to drive off in one next weekend in Normal, Illinois.

The same-day delivery event timings are between 10 am to 6 pm at the following address: 100 Rivian Motorway Normal, IL, 61761. Rivian said the test drives are available only on local roads, and ...

There aren't many configurations that you can choose from. Rivian notified reservation holders that it's holding an "R1T same-day sales event" on June 17 at its Service Center in Normal, Illinois.

Rivian's R1T – and its R1S three-row SUV sibling – were announced in late 2018, and the automaker wasted no time in promising an aggressive roadmap for deliveries.

In May, I received a call from a different, equally friendly Rivian employee at the company’s delivery center in El Segundo, California, just 0.5 mile from MotorTrend HQ. “Your truck’s here.

If all of the Rivian delivery specialists are as well prepared and as pleasant as Shade was, I believe there will be a lot of satisfied R1T and R1S customers, well, as far as their delivery goes.

Within about a day of driving the Rivian R1T —even in unfinished pre-production form, as was the case on our cross-country, Trans-America Trail journey —I knew I simply had to have one.

Rivian now offers a trio of wheel and tire packages including aerodynamically optimized 22s. Available Storm Blue exterior color and blackout accents complete the R1T’s 2025 model year updates.