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But almost six years later, the truck’s surreal design, awkward size, high price, and late delivery have turned it into a niche curiosity, not a mass-market hit.
How the fuck do you write an article about the failed Cybertruck and not acknowledge Elon’s political bullshit impacting Tesla sales?!?
Dishonest shit.
Biggest takeaway; the media is still in denial.
Early reviews raised red flags over software glitches, poor fit and finish, and disappointing range for a vehicle of its size.
That's the only sentence acknowledging the MANY mechanical failures, too.
Eh. Even if Musk still had his Iron Man in real life image the cyber truck would still be a complete failure.
Saying it's a shitty car and a failure by only looking at it as a car seems like good journalism. This isn't a good product that failed because people don't like Musk anymore.
I like how people don't hate it because its electric, they hate it because it's objectively terrible. Maybe if it didn't stink like a dead nazi, people would buy it.
It's ugly, and it looks like it jumped off the screen from the Cyberpunk 2077 world. It's poorly built and ineffective at the job it was designed to do. And then Elon did his thing, and now it's irrevocably tied to a dead Mid-20th Century ideology that the entire world fought to dismantle. I'm glad it's falling by the wayside. An object lesson -- don't build stupidly engineered items, and don't tout murderous ideologies that get a majority of the world against you.
It doesn't look like it came out of Cyberpunk, literally every vehicle in that game looks way cooler and more advanced. The Cybertruck looks like it came from a "futuristic" wireframe video game from 1985. It's obviously trying to play off DeLorean vibes, it's made as nostalgia for a 40-year old vision of a future that never came. It's like if someone made a 50s rocket-punk styled car in 1990, it's just a botched anachronistic mess, more past than future.
Its from the movie Freejack, trashy sci fi action flick from 1992, Mick Jagger drives something like it
that looks more like an APC.
IIRC it’s a real amphibious APC used by the Royal Marines painted red.
It’s ugly
I agree completely. I mean back in the 80's they were envisioning cool stuff like this:
... and instead Telsa decided to put out something that looks like some guy tried to turn his shed into a car.
its basically a giant metal coffin, which is also a charcuterie machine.
I think Musk drew this thing on the back of an envelope and forced it through to production against the protests and objections of everybody in Tesla. It sucks as a truck, it sucks as an EV, it costs way too much money, it's so dangerous that it is banned in most of the world, it's impractical, costly to repair, uninsurable and it falls to bits. It's no wonder the thing failed.
It’s the delorian of our time. Go ahead and use it for the remake of back to the future.
I think you're catching downvotes cause most people now think the DeLorean was cool because of the movies.
They don't realize it flopped due to being insanely heavy, overheating, and other mechanical problems. Really expensive, as well. Also, the whole thing with the owner being busted for a massive amount of cocaine.
The parallels are actually pretty funny and you're not wrong.
Except it does still look cool. It's just that the drivetrain sucked. If I even got one, I'd replace it with an EV drivetrain. There's pretty good options now. You don't even have to pull parts from a totaled Tesla anymore.
John DeLorean also got acquitted on the drug trafficking charges when it was found he was entrapped.
I don't think anyone credible sincerely thought the cyber truck was going to do well
It's a vehicle for stupid people with too much money to toss around or stupid people without money that are so caught up in the culture war trash they're willing to go into debt to make a really dumb statement.
"Wait a minute, Doc: are you telling me you built a time machine - out of a Cybertruck?!"
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car why not make it look ugly as fuck?"
Driving a Cybercuck is a great way to tell society you're the village idiot.
They go from Zero to 1939 faster than one can ask Grok what time it is.
The stupid thing is, it was so easy to see what needed to be done. Tesla needed to release a pickup that appealed to Red State America. Functional first, but high end and ultra manly. Kind of like the F-150 lightning but cool.
Tesla needed to appeal to traditional pickup owners. Then Musk's run to the right would have actually fallen in line with that strategy. But the Cybertruck is the exact opposite of that. There are probably more techies who own cyber trucks than there are pickup owners, and that's pathetic. That's a failure to understand your target demographic. This really comes down to musks insane hubris.
Lol function first.
Most f150s are suburban grocery getters. They just needed to release a mall crawler and keep Elon out of politics
I wonder, when they hit 88 Mph, does one transport back in time to apartheid South Africa?
Its a modern day DMC DeLorean which ironically also had a raw stainless steel body. Hopefully it tanks the company just like the DeLorean did.
Delorean built his cars in Northern Ireland during the Troubles while also smuggling drugs to try to keep the company solvent, and he still managed to produce a better vehicle than Musk did. At least Delorean managed to pick a stainless steel alloy that was actually stainless!
I don't think the DeLorean reference is apt. That company was headed by a man who saw himself as a visionary, liked to highlight his middle initial "Z," and had a drug addiction. No connection whatsoever.
At least DeLorean went out for something cool: smuggling cocaine in the vehicles.
The DeLorean looked WAY cooler.
Every time I see one I burst out laughing, they look so fucking stupid!
I flip them off now. I'm doing my part!
Go Nazi Go Bust
I will forever point and laugh like Nelson at the morons who bought these Swastikar piles of shit.
I point them out to my partner when we see one and we both laugh. It's the ugliest piece of shit on the road.
Yesterday, we were returning from a road trip and saw a semi hauling three of them. It was completely full. Other semis on the trip had like eight cars. How inefficient and riduclous they looked. We laughed at that, too.
I'm so sad that the nazi asshole's stupid truck is a failure. /s No I'm not. I love it.
Jeez, Tesla could have been such an interesting part of america’s success story (now China’s) if they just had leadership that was worth half a shit.
I feel like 4306 units sold in one quarter is still quite a lot all things considered.
That’s still too many.
