Good. It's a very lousy low-poly car anyway. My Mom would rather drive a used car from the past than some alleged "car of the future".
Holy shit. They were still making new ones?!
Not really. There's a massive stockpile of them that they're trying to flog to the US govt. That might have become much more difficult since last week.
The Pontiac Aztec and Subaru Baja await your arrival in ugly car heaven.
I guess the demand for wheeled dumpsters wasn't as high as they thought.
their “guaranteed buyers” just lost the midterms
Elon demonstrates sales projections.
Fortunately they are so terrible and Tesla is so terrible at providing parts that these will all be off the road within a few years.
Womp
Remember to point and laugh at every Cybertruck you see (while you can)! They knew who Musk was, and supported him anyway...
I actually saw one of those 'I bought this before we knew he was crazy' stickers on one in the wild. Like, no buddy, you were fully aware of the monster he was at that point.
I legit thought i was the only person who did this! A guy near my office owns one and started to recognize me in my lesser ev and now it’s a race to see if i can point and laugh before he flips me off. Now i change it up on him and shake my head at him while wearing the biggest, shit eating grin.
Maybe it’s petty of me. Or maybe we need to bring public shaming back to counteract the Elmo brainworm all these sycophants have🤷🏻♂️
Honestly, I like the look of the cybertruck. I know it’s not the popular opinion, but I like that it challenges the boring cookie-cutter pickup truck design.
I think it bothers people that it doesnt fit the “traditional” idea of what a pickup should look like, but to me that’s a good thing. To me, the trad pickup design is ugly anyway. Ford F150? Ugly. Dodge Ram? Ugly. Chevy Silverado? Ugly! So yeah, the minimalist wedge-shape is a great way to shake up field. It’s a fun departure.
I also like that it’s an EV pickup. But I wish it were better at being an EV pickup, instead of a glorified grocery-getter. It seems to fail at simple hauling / off-road / towing tasks.
I do not like the build quality either. Or the stainless steel bodywork. Or the plastic bits. But many of these things could have been refined in later model years.
And of course the elephant in the room: Musk put his musky stank all over it. It’s synonymous with him, and he’s a festering Nazi shit-pustule. So that kills it for me.
I wish some other EV brand would have done the Cybertruck. I think in the right hands it would have been better.
Yeah, I agree with you. People would mock how it looked, and still do. I think it looks fine. It's not a very popular opinion, I realize.
Given what I've read about it, I'm not sure I'd want to even take a short ride in it. Seems like it has many safety concerns. I have no idea how it's even on the road...
And that's before you get into all the many issues of the asshole Elon.
Yeah, it looks cool. As a concept. If it were just a design in a video game, I'd just shrug.
But it literally is the worst truck ever, made by one of the most evil men ever. Good fucking riddance.
I agree with you. It piqued my interest when it was first being teased and musk still had some plausibility that he was competent and well intentioned.
I live 8 miles from work in a rural area. I drive gravel roads every day, get feet of snowfall at a time, and I also have a need to regularly hall large materials. I recently got into a new to me 10 year old truck but was driving a sedan before that which was unsafe due to the heavy snows. I'd love a real electric truck and one that doesn't have a stupid bed height. What I need isn't available but there's no reason it shouldn't be. A 4x4 slate (w/o Bezos connected preferebly) would be sweet, a hylux champ, or a properly designed and built cybertruck would be sweet. I don't want all the bells and whistles and gimmicks, just a cost appropriate tool to get me from a to b and to support the work I do.
I can't wait for my kids to finally stop pointing them out and saying, "Dad, there's that car you hate."
I like loudly pointing them out to my wife with, "Hey babe, look. It's one of those Nazi cars!"
It's really fun when there are other people around, especially the owner.
And so every cyberfuck owner now has a brick in their parking spot.
Never had anything else
Why on Earth would someone design a cab to only seat two people? The only time in the last two years that I’ve used a cab, it was to travel with a group.
The best guess I can figure is that an insufferable loser like Elon can’t fathom having two or more people that want to be in the same car as him.
Fuk that Nazi
I actually point and laugh at every one I see. Driving one of those tells me you're an idiotic Nazi with horrible taste. Some of the paint jobs I've seen on them have been especially hilarious.
Well, that took longer than expected.
The only thing it was ever good for was to make it easier to spot assholes.
When my son was six, he thought it was so cool. "If I drew a cybertruck, that's how Id draw it."
My son, 9, now says "A cybertruck looks like a 6 year old drew it."
I will always love that my kid has more awareness than Elon Musk.
How can a company expect to sell over 750,000 cars in 3 years, sell less than 100,000, and not see horrendously tanking stock values? They must have lost so much money on the cybertrucks.
I'm pretty sure that Tesla stock is basically a money laundering scheme that allows oligarchs to pay him large amounts of money for being the one to openly fuck shit up (eg taking the loss to gain control of twitter, being the face of DOGE, openly buddying up with Trump, seeing what the response would be to giving a Nazi salute on live TV, etc).
I suspect he's essentially their lightning rod.
I recall someone fantasizing about piles of flipped cybertrucks. Well, in written form, forgot if on here or elsewhere. Welp, their dream is ruined.
I see them all over the place. A day doesn't go buy that I don't see a few. They had sales.
I suspect the real problem are the sales patterns, which are probably very bad. Because of Musk's increasingly poor reputation, they've probably completely stopped selling new ones, and nobody wants used ones, so why build more dead inventory?
His terrible behavior has destroyed his car company, which is on a steady, inexorable slide toward bankruptcy. Trump will keep Tesla alive through the 2028 election, for access to his money, but once Trump is out of office, Tesla will go off the cliff.
I often see one when driving around, but I think there are 1 or 2 nearby and so I see the same ones over and over.
The cybertruck undersold even the Edsel, which was shorthand for epic failure in the auto market....their sales numbers were brutal, even if propped up by sales (20%!) to other Elon companies.
If Musk was halfway smart he'd sell control of Tesla to one of the other majors (yes I know it has a listed value greater than most of them). By handing it over to someone who isn't overtly a nazi the brand could be revitalised and Muskrat could bank the money, have his remaining tesla shareholding grow again and make billions off SpaceX as well.
Fortunately he's not that smart
Just so the CyberCab can fail next. It couldn't happen to a better company.
Musk's obsession with 'breaking the mold' is driving one terrible idea after another. Their Vision-only 2 seater will never be approved for full autonomous, leaving them with a single awkward front seat taxi.
And without a rear window, I doubt even the most die-hard Musk Rats would choose it as their main car over a Model 3.
The Tesla bubble has popped. Every earnings call will be worse than the last, and will be followed by a stock slide. There is no saving it, no rehabbing it's image. Trump may keep it alive with bailouts, but Tesla will be bankrupt the moment Trump is out of office.
There goes one of the surest indicators of people you should avoid. Much as I hate the ugly things, they were an awesome way for people with bad politics to tell on themselves.
I can already see the reboot of the franchise in the making. Back To The (NASDAQ) Futures, the story of a ketamine-addicted blowhard that goes back in time in his Cybertruck to stop himself from building it. When he does, his time-travel Cybertruck disappears because it's never been made and he's stuck in 2023, so he misses his flight to Mars and dies of climate change like everyone else. Sad Story (R).
If they plan to stop sometime next year, what the heck will they do with the unsold ones they currently park and the surplus they are producing until the closure?
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