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It's ugly, and it looks like it jumped off the screen from the Cyberpunk 2077 world. It's poorly built and ineffective at the job it was designed to do. And then Elon did his thing, and now it's irrevocably tied to a dead Mid-20th Century ideology that the entire world fought to dismantle. I'm glad it's falling by the wayside. An object lesson -- don't build stupidly engineered items, and don't tout murderous ideologies that get a majority of the world against you.
It doesn't look like it came out of Cyberpunk, literally every vehicle in that game looks way cooler and more advanced. The Cybertruck looks like it came from a "futuristic" wireframe video game from 1985. It's obviously trying to play off DeLorean vibes, it's made as nostalgia for a 40-year old vision of a future that never came. It's like if someone made a 50s rocket-punk styled car in 1990, it's just a botched anachronistic mess, more past than future.
Its from the movie Freejack, trashy sci fi action flick from 1992, Mick Jagger drives something like it
that looks more like an APC.
IIRC it’s a real amphibious APC used by the Royal Marines painted red.
From a PS1 game
It looks like it came from the launch version of Cyberpunk running on a PS4.
I agree completely. I mean back in the 80's they were envisioning cool stuff like this:
... and instead Telsa decided to put out something that looks like some guy tried to turn his shed into a car.
Even amateur designers can start from the cyber truck design and make something a lot better with a few tweaks. The current design is just a great visualization of what happens when the boss purposefully ignores any suggestion and criticism from the employees. I mean, this not only happens with cars. There are many projects going that way. This is just a very visual high level example.
He didn't just ignore them. He fired anyone who spoke up about it.
That's how you get the best ideas. /S
It’s actually a decent little sci-fi from the Knight Rider/Airwolf era. It stares Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball’s son.
Yes! It's a fun show, and Chuck Wagner had charisma for days!
Is that a countach with led strips?
Basically. It's a special effect done with reflective tape, I think? It's from the 80's TV show called "Automan."
Ah, reflective tape makes sense. Everything had to look like Tron for a while.
Yeah when I think of a car that's actually cyberpunk it's some civic with mods.
I'd say it looks more like a futuristic barn