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Regardless, there is a very large number of people trying their best to import it and finding a loop-hole to put these monstosities on the road.
I've never actually seen one in the Netherlands. Plenty of absurdly big pickups, but not a cybertruck
And hopefully it will never happen.
I listened to a supposed car collector saying how he is planning to import one and legalize it under the gize of being a private museum piece. Supposedly, such cars get a special license and insurance, and are permitted to circulate from one show to another.
Hopefully, it gets returned at the border.
I do historical reenactment, so I know an above average number of people with... interesting vehicles.
You can own any vehicle you want, as long as you don't use it on the open road. Making a ww2 willys jeep street legal isn't too hard, since its historical. Anything from before the 1960s doesn't need to meet pretty much any safety standards other than "have lights and brakes".
But the cyberstuck isn't from before then, and would need to meet safety standards. Only some of the requirements can be waived for special reasons, but not all of them. There's one semi-famous story of a group who couldn't get their "ww2-ified" 1970's M5 halftrack approved for the road because it's insufficiently historical, so they had to install 3-point seatbelts and such. Technically, a 1940's M3 halftrack could be approved, to they basically bought a chassis from one, and made the M3-of-Thesseus, where they basically kept the chassis plate, and replaced everything else. So now it's oficially a 1940's halftrack, with 99.95% 1970's parts.
I don't think that works for a cybertruck.
Hopefully, it does not.
A cyber truck made in the 70's wouldn't have had musks involvement and thus might have not sucked.
Those pickups are so annoying. I really hope to see those things banned.
I think that's wonderful, honestly. Europeans should also have the opportunity to enjoy lighting one on fire.
I'm better amused with your nick. How difficult is it to catch one?
If you show any empathy, they'll find you
There is exactly one way to put it on the road and that is: sitting on the back of an actually street-legal truck.
Considering the size of it, it would be a monstrosity atop another.
Can't be a normal tow truck, you need the big guns for that thing.
Image allegedly from Germany.
Tell me it is going headed to the recycling center.
Maybe they are taking it back to Norway (where they are street-legal, thus Norwegians can drive them into the EU)
Not norwegian but regardless... Ouch!