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It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History
(finance.yahoo.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
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I actually don't hate the cypbertruck...
I know I'm in the minority... But I really hate boring gray cars and this thing is definitely not boring!
Fuck Elon and all his fucking bullshit, but let's imagine a world where he loses everything, now I know it's difficult but try imagine this scenario through your perfectly natural erection at the though of musk going broke (perfectly natural response). But imagine he's flat broke, tesla goes under, fire sale on everything... Would you buy one for 10k? ... How about 5k?
How low would the price have to go for you to buy one? ...for whatever reason, even if it won't get publicly registration for road use etc.
Even if you like the non boring appearance, the quality of the build is, to my understanding, terrible. Sharp edges on the steel, unevenly aligned everything, corrosion, the giant wiper gets too much stress and fails, etc.
Don't forget random panels popping off during operation. Cringey "skins" applied to functional parts with shiity adhesive instead of bolts/rivets (e.g. the gas pedal cover that would fall off and jam the accelerator on), bricked by car wash unless deliberately triggering "car wash mode", hidden or no emergency release for door locks sealing people into burning/submerged vehicles, truck that can't tow, bed that can't fit common items like a bike or dimensional lumber, perpetually ugly rust/hand oil stained panels, no magic unbreakable panels/glass, less range delivered than advertised, multiple features disabled by snow, improper safety sensors to detect occlusions leading to the finger chop/pinch incidents, cheap vibrating interior and fake auto pilot that constantly tries to kill passengers and pedestrians. And of course giving car makers cover to follow the dangerous, shitty tablet based Interior and attempt to end physical, no-look controls in moving motor vehicles.
And that's just top of mind from inside this hellish firehose to the face of disappointing information that we live in everyday.
At least those 63 actual humans that purchased one clearly identify as the worst people in their communities with these malfunctioning $100,000 vape pens on wheels.
No, I would not even take one even if they paid me the current price. The thing is not street legal in the EU, therefore useless. The reasons that it is not street legal have nothing to do with Elon directly but with that vehicle being unjustifiably dangerous to pedestrians and other drivers as well. If you drive one of those it tells all the others how much you care about everyone that isn't you.
I reject that thing not because it isn't street legal I reject it for why it isn't street legal and that goes down to the heart of its design and concept.
It doesn't matter how cheap I can get one, because A) it is incredibly ugly and shouts to everyone around you that you have incredibly bad taste, and B) because it is a poorly designed piece of junk that breaks just by being in the car wash. Why would I want something that is both expensive to fix AND breaks easily?
You couldn't pay me any sum of money to debase myself that much, and I love debasing myself.
I am also in the minority in that I like how it looks. It has a retro futuristic feel to it.
Having said that, putting aside that it became THE Nazi mobile of our time, it is stupidly big and apparently very badly made.
The build quality and reputation ruin it for me
Hate is a big word, but Elon's antics, the fact that most of the car's aestetics are essentially superglued trim pieces, and that it just isn't a better truck in any meaningful sense of the word took away most of this vehicle's appeal to me.
Mostly the first point though.
That it ultimately didn't sell for anywhere near the origionally announced price, and that in Europe they don't want it on the road at all, also doesn't help.
Id only want one to take the drivetrain or batteries out of. I bet that happens to a lot of them.
I would be a buyer at a low price if not for the social stigma. In a parallel universe where Elon released the cyber truck but kept his 2016 public image I'd but one for a low low price.