It was ill-conceived, over-promised, and under-delivered.

They're huge. They're 'stainless'. They're unibody. The drivetrain is expensive as shit. The tech innovations (digital door handles, controlless dash, bed cover are just wastes of money.

He wanted to make an impregnable, floatable tank. They ended up cutting every corner on structure and putting that into form, but when they finished, the design and QC was so bad that it just failed all over.

To fix everything that would be needed to cover the non-artistic issues, it would be the price of a large house instead of a small one.

Ok I was wondering if the one I heard creaking by me the other day was an anomaly. There are two locally and they both have squeaky suspension.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The build quality and reputation ruin it for me

I actually don’t hate the cypbertruck…

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.

I'm not sure we could make a profitable, well-built DeLorean, even if a real automaker tried. Testla didn't do anyone any favors, but there are reasons they Deloreans failed to take the market by storm. Outside being unique/famous, they weren't easy to deal with on any front

Like, who would even want a car that is impossible to escape from during an emergency?