musk inflates numbers to match his ego.
many, many, people canceled their preorder when they discovered he’s a fucking asshole.
several orders of magnitude more got tired of waiting and canceled because it too long to come out (also the base price went up by 20k,)
It turns out to be one of the least reliable, worst made cars on the road at any price.
Still uglier than an NFT.
And it’s the only Tesla designed by Elon Musk. The fraud bought his way to fame.
I love how you can tell exactly how it went down just by looking at the thing. Elon wanted a ton of specific and basically contradictory things, which led to a ton of compromises being made and corners being cut just to get it "done," and the result is a literally flaming pile of shit.
Kinda feel bad for the engineer that had to bring a toddler's drawing of a car to life but also fuck man, have some dignity. I'm sure his resume is good enough to go somewhere else if Elon fired him for telling him to pound sand.
I have a colleague who knows someone working at Tesla. Apparently Musk would walk the floor and declare "this isn't cyber enough, make it more cyber" like the awful client in every freelance webdev joke of the last 30 years.
Bu but he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else alive right now! I laughed so hard when he said that, I dislocated my jaw.
The fact that it got a million pre-orders after he shattered 2 invincible windows on stage would have been a warning about the future of this place. Hindsight and all I suppose though.
i remember it was 5 years before the cybertruck came out, when he showed the video and pics of the design, it hasnt changed since.
At this point, I literally wouldn't drive one for free. My fury at Musk for the pointless destruction he's done to this country overtook my curiosity for what it's like to drive one of those huge, dumb, ugly vehicles with the glued-on panels.
I won’t drive the cybertruck or any of the other newer generation X’s and S’s since they all have yolks instead of steering wheels. A few years back I was rear-ended by a drunk driver on a highway. With about 1/2 second warning I suddenly found myself spinning 360 degrees across 3 lanes, and I was trying my best to steer out of it. I seriously doubt I would have been able to do that with a yoke. My hands likely would have missed as I tried to reposition them.
The yokes, like so many other “features” seem like nothing more than glitz that Musk demanded to differentiate Teslas from other cars. If an independent authority tests yokes vs. wheels in situations like that crash and finds the yokes are as good or better then I’d consider driving a car with one. But given Musk is now trying to kneecap things like NHTSA I’m most definitely not going to hold my breath.
Same. Wouldnt take one if they paid me.
I’d take it for free and sell it at a big discount to one of his fanboys.
buying anything from Tesla is supporting the destruction of a country
And supporting and encouraging the richest man in the world. Instead of making him richer, we need to bankrupt him, nationalize Space X and Starlink, and shut down anything else he was worming on.
Not my country.
Still not buying anything from that cunt though.
He's working on it.
Not in the good way either.
I’ll bet the build quality is higher on that thing.
Hey in Simpsons Hit and Run that's a decent mid game choice.
Good, but for fucks sake, can we get just a standard two door, full sized, long bed electric truck that can actually do some work and not be a god damn pavement princess, suburban male, penis extender?
Given your opinions are on the reasonable side of truck owners
What advantage does a truck have over a panel van for work use?
Yes I'm European. Yes I actually want a truck for some unknown social reason. But every time I look at trucks I think the beds are either too small or I think my shit is going to get wet back there. An enclosed panel van has a bigger converted storage area.
I do heavy equipment/industrial/marine maintnace and fabrication work. The ability to overhead load things into the bed. Rather than being limited to what is on a pallet with a forklift. Being able have cargo that is longer than the bed of the truck and not have to drive with cab doors open. Being able to install a 5th wheel trailer to tow more than what the standard ball hitch allows. You shure aren't going to make a tow truck out of a van. Bulk cargo? Just show up to quarry or dirt pit load a bucket full or 2 and of you go. Lots of reasons. These are just the basic examples. There's lots more. From welding rigs to just being able to put a skid of drywall in with out hassle.
Well I for one really don't want to try and haul a load of manure in a panel van.
Don't get me wrong, vans are great, my general contractor in-laws used them daily, but there are advantages like being able to haul a stack of plywood or sheet rock without having to have a trailer, being able to haul larger items more easily, towing, and again, easily hauling things like manure or rocks, just get the front loader and dump it in.
I know this isn't exactly what you were asking for, but this looks promising for people that want what essentially is the anti-cybertruck:
A vehicle as a real tool? Blasphemy! We don't do that here in America.
Where the hell would we mount the dashboard nacho cheese dispenser and 42" plasma touch display in a standard truck?
Just get a hybrid Sienna, it comes with a free preinstalled cap on, AWD and sliding doors which shit on normal car/truck doors in terms of practical utility and capacity to do work.
Just sell to the UK or Europe. What's that? It doesn't meet road safety standard in the UK or Europe, well then guess someone fucked up
This pile of crap is completely impossible to bring to market in any country with reasonable consumer protections and road safety standards. Maybe they could export them to Russia?
One is already on the front lines in Ukraine. On the Russian side, naturally.
Even the Russians will probably prefer to attack riding donkeys.
We gave them an exception in Canada even though they dont meet safety requirements. Absolutely fucked.
Tesla earnings call in 3 days!
It's the new Dacia pickup truck!
That lifted ute looks more capable than the Cyber Truck and more fun.
Err... I mean, OH NO, anyway
so....they intentionally lied to artificially increase demand and make their product look more compelling? can we get some fucking consumer protections regulations for fucks sake?? they're killing us out there
No. The article doesn't talk about preorders at all, and they are completely meaningless and obviously a "preorder" for a car with just a 100$ deposit doesn't mean anything. That's basically just signing up for a mailing list. The cyber truck as announced was ugly but with really good specs for only 40k$. It was shit and the price was minimum 70k so it didn't sell well.
Preorders aren't a legally defined or protected term or anything, who wants to regulate that? It's basically just a list of emails signups so it doesn't mean anything at all.
No it's been doge'd by the dude who would personally benefit from it's doge'ing.
This would be a matter for the Securities and Exchange Commission to come crashing down on them. This kind of statement is designed to manipulate the market, and in a normal world, would be heavily punished.
Which is why they're killing it.
Why do you think that was one of the first things Elon killed?
I suspect if they did, they’d be in trouble for defrauding investors.
But do laws even apply anymore?
Tesla couldn't pay me to take possession of one of their vehicles, especially a Cybertruck.
I don't know, I think I've seen more than 2-3k of these trucks in Houston alone. Also someone keeps etching "Swastikar" into them. Rumor is they're using an acid etchant like ferric chloride.
Don’t worry, papa Elon will pull some strings to get the government to take these turkeys off his hands.
Efficiency!
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