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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'll save you a click: 7,100 Cybertrucks sold in the US in the first quarter of 2025. Another 10,000 trucks remain unsold. Last year Tesla sold fewer than 40,000 of them. This is way below the 500,000 per year Musk predicted.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He actually thought he could sell that many wtf.. that's half the amount of Corollas sold each year and they are in over 130 countries, what was he high on when he came up with this metric.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If there is some special K laying around, Elon is gonna do it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

"Elon, you special, k?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Coke Zero. You are what you drink.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

God, so few and yet so fucking many on my daily commute. Each one of them a worse driver than the last.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm trying to think of any other vehicle that's flopped this hard in sales and I'm drawing a blank.

Couldn't have happened to a better target.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

The Fiat Multipla, widely regarded as a fucking ugly piece of useless trash was a worldwide failure, because it looked like this:

It sold 70k in the first year (EDIT: in europe)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That car was ugly, but it didn't cost a fortune, was relatively safe and wouldn't get bricked after having a car wash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, It was ugly and dumb (here's a 6-person car, hope none of you have any bags), but it wasn't a deathtrap.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Lol it reminds me of the Homer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I feel like raising the height of the hood so it lines up with the bottom of the windshield would instantly fix this car.

Don't know if that would create frontal visibility issues though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Wowzers. Yep that is ugly as hell. I'd still be more embarrassed to be driving around in a Cybertruck though, and I love electric vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For me it loops around, it's so ugly it's kinda cute :D

(while the Cybertruck is just plain ugly)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Looks kinda like a duck. Paint it duckling yellow and the hood orange and you can drive in harvest parades!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its being outperformed by the Aztek, this thing is... god, words fail me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Delorian! That failed so hard. Although it will be way more highly regarded thanks to Back to the Future.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Hard to believe the Delorian was such a flop when they're so sought after now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Edsel? That was a whole new division, not just one model.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"Predictions" necessitate evidence to base them on. These are garden-variety "guesses pulled from the ass of a drug-addled fascist".