Tesla Cybertruck

[Shiver Me Timbers]

Originally Posted by Scorp

You didn't order one. All you did was contribute to giving Musk a 0% interest loan he can fund another project with.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Scorp

You didn't order one. All you did was contribute to giving Musk a 0% interest loan he can fund another project with.

While true, the idea that $20 million (200k deposits x $100) makes any difference at all to a company worth $80 billion is laughable. It's much more about the marketing value (i.e., creating headlines) and demand forecasting than the interest on the deposits.

[Paniero]

Originally Posted by Scorp

You didn't order one. All you did was contribute to giving Musk a 0% interest loan he can fund another project with.

I placed an order that at least preserves the FSD at 7k. $100 is not much to sacrifice to do so.

If Musk wants to jerk off with my $100 deposit, I don't really care.

[Shoes]

I heard with this new Tesla truck that the accelerator won't work unless you have the Marty McFly shoes on.

[MagicHef]

I like it.

[FlintHillsChiefs]

I don't know how anyone who uses a truck for anything useful aside from hauling your boat or RV can think that design is remotely close to functional.

Where do you put the toolbox, since the bed wall is so slanted? What if you need to grab something that's up at the front of the bed? In a regular truck you can just reach over - good luck with that with the Cybertruck. Feeding cows in the winter - usually one guy drives and the other sits on the bedwall and chucks the hay every 40 yards or so. Can't do that on the slanted bedwall, especially if it's wet and icy. You sideload? Gonna be a PITA. Also, why can't you have a flat roof? Sometimes it's nice to just stick your lemonade/drink up there while your digging post holes or tightening fence lines.

I do like the high clearance and no drive train though. Doing irrigation work in Utah can be hell on a normal ICE drive train when you're crossing irrigation ditches and banging your drive train on a rock all the time.

Function before form, Elon!

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by FlintHillsChiefs

I don't know how anyone who uses a truck for anything useful aside from hauling your boat or RV can think that design is remotely close to functional.

Where do you put the toolbox, since the bed wall is so slanted? What if you need to grab something that's up at the front of the bed? In a regular truck you can just reach over - good luck with that with the Cybertruck. Feeding cows in the winter - usually one guy drives and the other sits on the bedwall and chucks the hay every 40 yards or so. Can't do that on the slanted bedwall, especially if it's wet and icy. You sideload? Gonna be a PITA. Also, why can't you have a flat roof? Sometimes it's nice to just stick your lemonade/drink up there while your digging post holes or tightening fence lines.

I do like the high clearance and no drive train though. Doing irrigation work in Utah can be hell on a normal ICE drive train when you're crossing irrigation ditches and banging your drive train on a rock all the time.

Function before form, Elon!

Bro, it's a truck for women and retired old men. Kinda like that Honda Ridgeline thing.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by FlintHillsChiefs

I don't know how anyone who uses a truck for anything useful aside from hauling your boat or RV can think that design is remotely close to functional.

Where do you put the toolbox, since the bed wall is so slanted? What if you need to grab something that's up at the front of the bed? In a regular truck you can just reach over - good luck with that with the Cybertruck. Feeding cows in the winter - usually one guy drives and the other sits on the bedwall and chucks the hay every 40 yards or so. Can't do that on the slanted bedwall, especially if it's wet and icy. You sideload? Gonna be a PITA. Also, why can't you have a flat roof? Sometimes it's nice to just stick your lemonade/drink up there while your digging post holes or tightening fence lines.

I do like the high clearance and no drive train though. Doing irrigation work in Utah can be hell on a normal ICE drive train when you're crossing irrigation ditches and banging your drive train on a rock all the time.

Function before form, Elon!

Yeah this is my problem with the damn thing. Its obvious Elon didn't gather any input from people who use pickup trucks for the intended purpose maybe his next generation will get it right. Does look like it would make one hell of a lunar rover though.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by srvy

Yeah this is my problem with the damn thing. Its obvious Elon didn't gather any input from people who use pickup trucks for the intended purpose maybe his next generation will get it right. Does look like it would make one hell of a lunar rover though.

I guess the question is whether they can eventually adapt this to be more functional. As I think about it, this thing seems more suited to people who are otherwise considering a Range Rover than people who are considering a work truck. We have just assumed this would target the latter, but it's not really that kind of "truck."

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I guess the question is whether they can eventually adapt this to be more functional. As I think about it, this thing seems more suited to people who are otherwise considering a Range Rover than people who are considering a work truck. We have just assumed this would target the latter, but it's not really that kind of "truck."

Then it's not a truck, it's an SUV.

It's a truck for people who don't actually want or use a truck.

Which IMO, is really ****ing bad marketing.

Now people will only talk about what it isn't instead of what it is. Which is what we're doing right now. Had they just pegged it as a Truck/SUV hybrid or an SUV i don't think there'd be as much scrutiny.

[ToxSocks]

That thing looks stoooopid.

[chinaski]

Never heard of him...

Have we signed this piece of shit yet?

[BigBeauford]

I agree with the take that this is thoroughly a Gen X product. This is what every 80s movie depicted what cars of the future would look like.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by BigBeauford

I agree with the take that this is thoroughly a Gen X product. This is what every 80s movie depicted what cars of the future would look like.

Hey, I'm Gen X and I wouldn't touch that thing with a 10 foot pole.

[ClevelandBronco]

I like the look of it. The thing that has always bugged me about Tesla vehicles is that the damn things look like cars for no good reason.