Cybertruck LMFAO

[minimoog]

[EmailAddress]

What's with the tyres / trim. They don't have unique tyres do they? That would be madness surely.

[CoolHands]

Vehicle the size of a house. Can’t fit push bike in it.

[and31]

Hahahahahaha-it’s fking terrible!!

[hidetheelephants]

What a load of rubbish. No doubt they'll sell loads and keep the warranty shops busy.

[Puzzles]

hidetheelephants said:

What a load of rubbish. No doubt they'll sell loads and keep the warranty shops busy.

Not really sure who will be buying it, it looks odd, not that useful as a truck, truck people don’t normally like EVs, it’s huge, no doubt expensive to repair, some of the cool features have been removed, it won’t be 35k as promised. I could go on etc.

[Hans_Gruber]

CoolHands said:

Vehicle the size of a house. Can’t fit push bike in it.

I don’t get pickups, and this won’t be sold in the UK anyway. The size of its bed won’t be the issue, Ford sell around 1.8 million F150s a year in the US and they don’t fit bikes in either!

[CoolHands]

Mental. If you had a van the exact same outer dimensions you would fit the whole lot in.

[loudlashadjuster]

I love the fact they’ve slapped some dubious clause in the sale contract that says you can’t sell them on within a year unless you want Tesla to sue you for $50k, or they might just brick the thing remotely.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/13/23959481/if-yo...

Really building buyer confidence there…

[EmailAddress]

loudlashadjuster said:

I love the fact they’ve slapped some dubious clause in the sale contract that says you can’t sell them on within a year unless you want Tesla to sue you for $50k, or they might just brick the thing remotely.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/13/23959481/if-yo...

Really building buyer confidence there…

To be fair, that's pretty standard these days.

[loudlashadjuster]

EmailAddress said:

loudlashadjuster said:

I love the fact they’ve slapped some dubious clause in the sale contract that says you can’t sell them on within a year unless you want Tesla to sue you for $50k, or they might just brick the thing remotely.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/13/23959481/if-yo...

Really building buyer confidence there…

To be fair, that's pretty standard these days.

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Other than ridiculous exotica where they act like they are doing you a favour actually selling you a car <cough!>Ferrari<cough!>, what normal car manufacturer imposes such insane restrictions on you?

[ChocolateFrog]

Djtemeka said:

Looks the same apart from the wheels and open windows . Yuk

In the same way a Toyota MR2 looks like a F355.

[ChocolateFrog]

EmailAddress said:

Can Joe Rogan pierce the Truck with a bow & arrow?

Don't you mean Joe Rohan

[Hans_Gruber]

This is made for the American market, their priorities are different. I have a feeling it will do well;

- It’s made in America
- It does 0-60 in 3 seconds
- It’s bulletproof (bulletproof glass is an option) Just for the cool factor!
- A redneck can’t dent it with a sledgehammer
- There will be a multitude of wraps that (could) transform how it looks
- It’s so different than any other Truck

Incidentally it weights from 3600-4500 KGS and is made of stainless steel. Can you imagine what the other car will look like when, eventually, it has a head-on crash with something like a Fiat 500….

Edited by Hans_Gruber on Thursday 16th November 09:04

[Pebbles167]

I'd hate it slightly less if it didn't have that stupid roofline.

[durbster]

Hans_Gruber said:

This is made for the American market, their priorities are different. I have a feeling it will do well;

- It’s made in America
- It does 0-60 in 3 seconds
- It’s bulletproof (bulletproof glass is an option) Just for the cool factor!
- A redneck can’t dent it with a sledgehammer
- There will be a multitude of wraps that (could) transform how it looks
- It’s so different than any other Truck

Incidentally it weights from 3600-4500 KGS and is made of stainless steel. Can you imagine what the other car will look like when, eventually, it has a head-on crash with something like a Fiat 500….

It's worth pointing out these were all Musk's claims, and we now know that most of what Musk says in his product launches turns out to be utter bks.

[Chipper]

durbster said:

Hans_Gruber said:

This is made for the American market, their priorities are different. I have a feeling it will do well;

- It’s made in America
- It does 0-60 in 3 seconds
- It’s bulletproof (bulletproof glass is an option) Just for the cool factor!
- A redneck can’t dent it with a sledgehammer
- There will be a multitude of wraps that (could) transform how it looks
- It’s so different than any other Truck

Incidentally it weights from 3600-4500 KGS and is made of stainless steel. Can you imagine what the other car will look like when, eventually, it has a head-on crash with something like a Fiat 500….

It's worth pointing out these were all Musk's claims, and we now know that most of what Musk says in his product launches turns out to be utter bks.

They have a pre order list of nearly 2 million. Pick up trucks in North America are some of the biggest selling vehicles and it’s clearly designed for that target. It will be class leading and by some margin. If you don’t like the look of it you can buy a Ford F series or a Ram but be in no doubt that this will do very well in North America and will seriously damage the competition in that segment.

[durbster]

Chipper said:

durbster said:

Hans_Gruber said:

This is made for the American market, their priorities are different. I have a feeling it will do well;

- It’s made in America
- It does 0-60 in 3 seconds
- It’s bulletproof (bulletproof glass is an option) Just for the cool factor!
- A redneck can’t dent it with a sledgehammer
- There will be a multitude of wraps that (could) transform how it looks
- It’s so different than any other Truck

Incidentally it weights from 3600-4500 KGS and is made of stainless steel. Can you imagine what the other car will look like when, eventually, it has a head-on crash with something like a Fiat 500….

It's worth pointing out these were all Musk's claims, and we now know that most of what Musk says in his product launches turns out to be utter bks.

They have a pre order list of nearly 2 million. Pick up trucks in North America are some of the biggest selling vehicles and it’s clearly designed for that target. It will be class leading and by some margin. If you don’t like the look of it you can buy a Ford F series or a Ram but be in no doubt that this will do very well in North America and will seriously damage the competition in that segment.

The pre-orders were driven by a claimed price that could easily double, alongside stupid claims about being bulletproof and able to float on water. Let's see how many people are still interested when these claims turn out to be bullst.

There were also a lot of pre-orders for the Tesla Roadster, a car that he said would do 250mph, with 600 mile range and be able to hover due to in-built rocket thrusters (seriously, he claimed that), and the Tesla Semi truck that will be out next year every year and achieve all sorts of made up numbers.

Time will tell how many of these get delivered but if there is something Musk has been good at, it's getting people to throw money at him by promoting things that don't happen.

[Chipper]

Im not sure why so much hate towards Tesla. The Cybertruck will do very well and I'm sure we will be able to look back in a year or two and see who is right on that.

The hate towards Musk is rather comical. Here's a chap who has now managed to establish arguably the leading EV manufacturer in the world in a relative short time with the biggest selling car globally while everyone kept saying “ the competition is coming “ while it seems its just collapsing. It looks clear that when the Chinese really start hitting the European shores that legacy manufacturers are really going to be in trouble as the take up of ev’s grows.

Very similar when people said it was impossible to reuse a rocket and laughed at Musk saying they would and yet here we are with SpaceX a few years later.

[wyson]

Its a shame Musk’s bombast and exaggeration somewhat overshadows the achievements. Space X & Starlink, Tesla. But perhaps it takes a certain kind of person to pull that sort of thing off, and we are seeing the undesirable flip side.