Lol
$50k in fees
totally reasonable price to tack onto a car worth less than $100k
Jesus fuck why are they so fucking stupid lmao
Who is giving this money to these people?
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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I still owe $171,500
They aren't sending their best
Ugh if I could lose that much money I would be able to start fresh with a legit bankruptcy claim. But no, stuck in the middle with basic personal debt.
Is it really impossible to repair this thing after being "sideswiped by an e-scooter"? Like, I've known as well as anyone else that the truck is a joke but how is that even possible?
The truck totals itself upon impact. Just about any collision is enough to cause the truck's deeply ill-conceived stainless steel exoskeleton to stress and damage the adjacent panels, because all of the force of the collision is applied directly to weak mounting points and then every adjacent part basically falls like dominoes.
They made a truck that essentially cannot be repaired, what few repairs that can be made can only be done by the factory stripping the truck down completely and rebuilding a new truck from scratch on top of the original structural battery, and because there is no frame every single trim panel is actually integral.
They made an eggshell out of stainless steel that tears itself apart because it's too rigid, attached it to a load bearing lithium-ion battery pack, and then just clipped the plastic interior pieces onto the eggshell.
There's no frame?!
I shit you not, there is no frame. They removed all of the structural components from the vehicle and instead they've made all of the parts which would ordinarily be non-structural into structural parts. This was done with the explicit stated purpose of reducing the manufacturing cost of the vehicle by making it non-repairable.
I'm talking about load-bearing Lithium-ion battery cells, structural plastic housings, even the glass window panes in the doors are considered so structurally important that rolling them down fundamentally changes the driving characteristics of the vehicle. It has a crash safety rating of Did Not Finish, it's not water-tight enough to be driven in the rain or go through any car wash.
The high repair costs and relative fragility of the vehicle are intentional aspects of the design goal for the Cybertruck, passing all possible costs onto the consumer by making a disposable pickup truck and offering OEM mod package installation and a complete factory replacement/refurbishment as the only two after-sales service options on a truck that cannot be serviced or modified by anyone other than Tesla, and will brick itself if it thinks you tried.
They built a car the way you'd build a disposable vape.
It's peak anarcho-capitalism
All the Elon Musk fanboys: "Genius move, Good Sir!"
It has like, a structural aluminium tub where you'd normally put the frame of a truck. That's why the ~~tailgate~~ back half of the car rips off when you try tow something heavy with all that torque.
It's truly the car homer simpson would have designed if he were less intelligent.
Check this out, here's a photo of it. They're essentially just a pile of plastic parts hanging onto these discrete stainless steel sheets.
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load bearing lithium-ion battery pack
The US military should just drop these instead of bombs
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For a normal car it's repairable, probably be an overpriced fix but not totalled. For a Cybertruck? Would not be surprised if Tesla dealerships are literally not capable of that level of repairs.
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How its built, first the air bags went off which are crazy expensive which damages interior panels as well. It looks like both doors were damaged, and back quarter panel. I know the rivian pickup back quarter panel extends to the front of the truck so who knows what this does. The roll down cover for the bed was probably damaged if that back quarter panel was damaged. The bed could also be damaged depending on how its attached to the quarter panel. Stainless isn't very forgiving, its very rigid so its possible it could damage other things while being damaged. I bet only Tesla repairs these things too. So yes not surprised.
My next question is are a car's airbags supposed to go off if it gets "sideswiped by an e-scooter"?
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Allstate isn't covering that and hitting me with depreciation.
Paying twice MSRP for a gimmicky car, driving it around for a while, and being surprised that the insurance company won't give you all your money back.
Hahah asymmetrical warfare go brr. I hope the scoot rider is okay.
IIRC Musk was in talks with police and the military to have cybertrucks replace the humvee.
they should do that, and throw in some e-scooters in case the enemy also has cybertrucks
Haha alu fixed frame vs IED what could go wrong. Do it.
God please yes
Sometimes I worry that I'm not good with money, but other times I see this
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How do these dipshits not understand a car is a rapidly depreciating asset?
I'm now remembering the days that mElon was peddling the lie that Teslas would be an appreciating asset.
yeah because it could autonomously drive people around while you sleep, and then come back with vomit on the seats and smelling like beer
That is so funny. "Oh yeah these batteries- just gonna keep goin up in value" slaps side of cybertruck and breaks a window, bleeds out
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It is a very durable investment (in comedy output)
Hitting one of those inflatable dancing tube guys while driving out of the dealership and my cybertruck shatters into a thousand-thousand pieces while the tube guy continues to dance.
Still love the truck tho
I looks like it has random greeblies glued onto it, like a prop in a low-budget sci-fi movie.
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like piranha devouring a cow, so are the e-scooters to the lumbering cybertruck
Assuming average loan payments and good credit, I’m guessing he put down $15-20k on his low-poly mid-life crisis. I would not call that low a down payment, sound.
That's like a really nice used car
Not to mention he paid out of pocket for the $50k broker fee. That’s like, a really nice new car.
Did they put something in the water? Does COVID do more brain damage than we realize?
We were always stupid but I really don’t remember us being this consistently, this totally stupid. Like, literally everyone is a moron child now.
And don’t just say I finally woke up or something - they really are all just so so much stupider
Stupid people have always existed, the internet gives them a platform, and the best slop curators make sure we see them
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watashi no medium sized rock
wow, my 2015 Kia Sorento was hit by a E-scooter and it just bounced off.
I'm sorry
it wasn't Sorentotalled?
It was a Sorental
Owned
"A fool and their money are soon parted"
I appreciate I'm in a minority in the western world when I say that buying a car on loan is an awful idea. I've never done it and I'll risk 100 used rustbuckets before I pay market price for a car.
But really? You can get a 10% LTV ratio on a car loan? For a car that can be totalled by a scooter? What an triply awful decision for both the bank and the car owner.
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