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The Cybertruck Must Be Huge—or It Will Dig Tesla’s Grave
(www.wired.com)
That thing looks dumb as fuck.
Most of it is dumb. The push button doors, the motorized tonneau cover, the rearview mirror replaced with a camera on the dash screen, the shift selector being where the rearview mirror should be, ugly ass hubcaps, the stainless steel body panels, the uneven body panels gaps, the sharp corners, the stupid steering wheel, and the last of a spare wheel. All for $100k!
Yeah, I hate how it looks..
A dude down the street (in a duplex, nonetheless) has one. It’s fucking gigantic. Dumb as hell looking.
It's also heavy as fuck
Who's here wants for it to fall and watch musky boy blame someone else?
I'll get a shovel.
Unless something changes it isn’t going to be huge.
It will be a huge cause of accidents killing children based on what I've seen. Field of view seems more limited than on other SUVs and they all suck in that aspect.
If the panels are truly as strong as they claim this pointy truck will cut right trough a family van.
And as well as killing everyone in the family van, it'll snap every neck inside the tin bucket. With all the lights and right angles, its a struggle to make it look good, but wow, seeing it drive on the road, it just looks like a dusty lump of scrap.
I really want to see what the safety scores on this thing are. I can’t image they’ll be very good.
I feel like this would have been a hard sell even three years ago, but now, with Elon being as polarizing as he is, it’s going to be an even harder sell. I don’t know what demographic that thing is even for, other than hardcore Musk stans.
I'm just wondering if you mean "a fucking idiot" when you say polarizing
I wonder if they might pull it off. Two of the things that people talk about most often, looks and the mismatch between “EV buyers” and “truck buyers”, were already known and ignored by the people who made preorders.
It doesn’t matter if you or I think the Cybertruck is ugly. The people who put down money either disagree or are willing to tolerate it.
The other major factor is cost, and there’s no way to put a positive spin on that. The Cybertruck is more expensive than people were told it would be. Right now, I see that as the biggest problem, at least as far as preorders are concerned.
Those weren't "preoders"; that was another Telsa lie that everyone repeated uncritically. People paid $100 dollars for reservations. That does not represent a firm commitment, nor the wherewithal, to purchase a 6-figure vehicle.
I’ll admit, I don’t know what the legal definition of “preorder” is. I’m just using the same term used in the article.
I’d have bought one if Musk hadn’t turned out to be a total chud. Now I don’t want anything to do with him or any company he’s a part of.
To sate my love of absolutely bizarre looking electric vehicles, my money is now on Aptera.
It's joever
Are they going to fix the counterintuitive brake lights or wait until they cause tons of accidents?
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2023
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