At this point it's nice to see all the other manufacturers jumping on the EV bandwagon, all it took was the free market to make it viable. I think this could've come a lot sooner had it not been for the opposition but that's another story.
Plus:
If you buy a Tesla at this point, it’s all on you.
So do you think the Lightning is just too big? I've been sort of drawn to this one.
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I was down in Newport Beach and walking around a mall and decided to hassle a tesla salesman. He was stoked about how nice the cybertruck looked. I told him that it must be something in the Orange County fascist air, because up in Silicon Valley the cybertruck is the subject of ridicule and scorn.It looks like the bastard child of 1980s Robocop. I don't care what anyone thinks about Musk, that thing is the fugliest rig I've ever seen.
Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it - Autoblog
"They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it," Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it
These things are all over the place in Palo Alto. Mostly with big “RC” stickers on the sides (which i assume means “release candidate”). They are as ugly in-person as you would expect. They also seem very impractical-looking. This is all particularly striking considering there are also Rivians all over the place here, and the Rivians look so much nicer and better-built.Regardless of my person feelings on Musk, this thing is the ugliest turd ever made.
Elon Musk: "We Dug Our Own Grave With Tesla Cybertruck," Which Finally Arrives in November
Tesla CEO also says Cybertrucks will trickle out until 2025, and admits that making this truck is hard.
Yeah they're whoring that RC all over the place and there were so many "spotted" threads in the sub on Reddit that I left it. It's hard to say whether or not people will buy into it but I agree, it seems terribly impractical for a "truck" and none of his MAGA supporters are going to touch it either. It seriously looks like some sort of reimagined 80s 16 bit tech brought back to life.
Right, I think it's hard to beat a standard and modern looking truck from Ford, Chevy or RAM TBH. This is why my main interest has been in the Ford F150 Lightning, if I were to go that way.
Agreed, the car looked very modern and didn't break from a standard design. I think this truck is what happens when Musk thinks for himself and doesn't listen to any of his designers.
