From the damage present in the picture, it almost looks like they tried to drive it.
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I’ve seen two in person (possible, same one just twice). It was bigger and dumber looking than I thought it would be. The style contrasts with literally everything around it. In every possible way, it looks unfinished in a way no video or photo ever conveyed.
Have you seen the windshield wiper being used yet? It looks like something out of a crappy ‘art’ film.
I have not… now I gotta find a video of this
I kinda like the look of the headlight strip or whatever. That’s about it though.
Tow driver: Damn this thing looks like it went through the Iraq war.
Owner: I’ve had it for three weeks.
I hate this truck as much as the next guy but, isn’t this what any and every car looks like after a fire?
Just saw one of these for the first time this past weekend on a road trip to Chicago. It was so much bigger and somehow even more shitty-looking than I expected.
Reminds me, it’s my first day back teaching classes and the usual cyber truck I see on the commute is gone. Students and I used to make fun of it before class, I wonder what happened to it…
It probably got wet.
The aftermath of a dumpster fire
That’s in pretty decent shape, actually. The metal is usually more rusted, especially if they tried to wash it in a car wash.
There’s one I see around town often enough. I was parked at a red light next to it the other day and it was remarkable how shitty the panels look up close. They’re not really flat and planar. They’re sort of wobbly like corrugated tin.
Yeah, I know that the super-flat planar look was the intent, but there’s a reason why you don’t see much in the real world that resembles the cybertruck. It turns out that the non-planar features of typical car panels are there to add rigidity. Flat sheet metal wants to bend, twist, wave, and even flap in the wind. So there are probably internal supports or struts welded to the panel backsides, in order to keep them flat. Problem is, that process tries to distort the panels due to heat from manufacturing.
And since they opted for stainless, this adds additional problems. In this case: you can’t hide imperfections with bondo and paint. The panels have to be perfect, every time. It requires tolerances that belong on a sports car, not a pickup.
Yes, all the little wobbles stick out and they always look dirty. And while other Teslas can look nice with a wrap, for some reason CTs with a wrap look extra plasticky
I’ve seen one nearby and every time I’ve seen it I’ve been like “found the dumbass”
For those of you that can not see it immediately, look more carefully at the dripping at the top of the tire, the deformation at the middle of the side skirt trim, and the darkness on the inside of the glass, not to mention the view inside the broken glass.
Can’t see what, the fire damage?
It’s Cyber Fucked. 🤔
It came off the assembly line cyber fucked
My son LOVES Cybertrucks.
He’s 7 though, so I imagine not the market Musk was targeting
You need to get him on Back to the Future. The OG Delorean is way superior.
Way ahead of you there, he loves himself a Delorian
Musk drew up the original sketch for the cyber truck on his notebook in class when he was 7.
I’ve only seen one and was shocked at how much worse it looks in person.
It was always, shall we say, polarizing, but the production version managed to nudge every iffy design note in the concept car in the wrong direction. It ends up looking less Mass Effect and more like a Pontiac Aztek in DeLorean cosplay.
Wow, even worse than the pictures that are already super ugly? Yeesh.
I was surprised!!
I see them a lot and am still shocked at how bad they look.
I think the design is neat, though wildly impractical. And “impractical” doesn’t begin to cover the engineering and manufacturing flaws. Impractical, fragile and falling apart day-1? Sign me up!
Figure they’ll be like Deloreans some day, a few monied collectors keeping them going for nostalgia.
Never had any love for the man, never cared, but if you haven’t seen this video, heysus christos, this tells you all you need to know about Musk in a few short seconds.
take a drive by the Tesla service center in Pensacola… you can see a bunch of them parked there.
Hah! First one I was over near Holt off I-10. Honestly, it seemed pretty cool, guy had some low-key black graphics on it. But after seeing the fail-train these things are, they can’t look cool to me anymore.
Also, I’m practical with my purchases, or try to be. I have a beat up 2004 F150 that actually runs, can get wet and hauls 5x what a Cybertruck can. I get buying stuff for the cool factor, but what’s the use case here?!
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