It's still a reasonable card for Commander since you have all the tools to accelerate this out early, even if defending the initiative is harder in multiplayer
Another way to express yourself in games is your demeanor
FromTheShire: As alluded to here, one of the big issues the Vehicles can run into as commanders is their color identity, or in many cases lack thereof
To make your cards abilities sound legit, look for cards with similar effects
A question that Gerry Thompson once asked me still resonates with me to this day: "How many converted mana cost (mana value) 3 or higher creatures have impacted recent Standard without having some form of immediate effect on the game?" The list is a lot shorter than I would have guessed
Situations where you want to play one half dont correspond to situations where you want to play the other half, and given the raw power of the card, this case is more of a choice than a logical progression