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[OC]One of the only cybertrucks I've ever seen
I see a surprising number of them around here, considering how expensive they are. The styling is what I'd imagine an 8 year old boy would come up with if you asked him to draw a car.
I would not be surprised if this is close to the truth. Straight lines are easier to draw so maybe that's why Musk came up with this garbage design.
First one i saw was abandoned on the beach, and flooded. Apparently one of the first things the owner had tried to do was drive on the beach, got down bellow the high tide line, and then gotten stuck. The local paper had a chronicle if the cars short lifespan up that evening, via user photos.
It had come over on the ferry that morning, illegally parked twice down town, once in a handicap spot, and once in a crosswalk, and made it out to the beach to get stuck by noon, and was scrap by 3pm. (I'm assuming, as by that point high tide would have happened, and its battery and engines would have been submerged by a foot or 2 in sea water)
It took a week or 2 fornthem to get it off the beach Apparently the one company that runs a beach capable tow truck had refused, not wanting to risk his vehicle on the fire hazard on wheels (especially when soaked)
I was honestly excited about these. The difference in looks, the possibility of capabilities, etc. Then nazelon happened and I turned the rest of the way from Tesla. The issues that these keep having make me laugh at the cost that these idiots pay, the poor capability off road make me love my Tacoma even more.
Lucky you
I live in Vancouver and I have to see these rust buckets on a daily basis
In another 10 years they'll be about as common on the road as 1973 Vegas with original engine.
I gotta admit, it looks better now
In its natural state, broken.
Earlier this year I protested outside a Tesla dealership, and there were more Cybertrucks coming into the dealership on flatbeds, than there were visiting or passing on their own power.
It might also be reverse survivorship bias. Broken down cars tend to be freighted to workshops no matter brand. For Tesla the workshops just happen to be the dealerships.
I definitely saw several a day earlier in the year, now I don't recall the last one I've seen.
Damn, fresh off the assembly line too!
Lucky you, hopefully they all end up like this soon.
LOL, I love it.
I have yet to hear someone say they like the look of the trucks. I know that is minor to the issues with automobiles, but given our Capitalist worm, I do not how they still being sold & line is not cancelled.
Yeah, it looks like shit. But it also can’t be taken out in the rain or through a car wash, falls apart constantly, catches on fire, and traps its users inside.
Ok, we all hate nazis, but orders of magnitude more people burn up trapped in ICE vehicles because this has been a thing with Chevy products for over a decade.
The way it looks isn’t the issue, it’s the way it functions (or doesn’t). I can 100% tell that this truck was designed by someone who a. has never owned a truck, and b. doesn’t know why people own trucks.
b. doesn’t know why people own trucks
Seems like it was designed for the people who buy trucks for the wrong reasons (i.e. pavement princesses and emotional-support trucks).
You would not believe how many of those are here in Los Angeles, with just the tiniest truck beds you’ve ever seen. I did once see one of those trying to haul a few pieces of lumber, and the angle it was jutting up at was pretty funny.
WOW, I guess it barely qualifies as a truck then.
LOL, so true, MOCHO (SP?) BLANK.
I like the way it looks, I think modern car design is incredibly boring. I don’t like the guy who makes it or the mountain of design decisions that make it a rusting turd, but I like the aesthetic.
I can somewhat understand the side view, but the front view just looks goofy to me.
There is no aesthetic though.
Each their own,
I do not have to purchase it.
I get that it was in a wreck or something, but what the hell happened to its suspension!?
I'm no engineer but given that there's soot marks I could imagine that a fire broke the seal on the hydraulics in the suspension. Or that the car was wedged into something, forcing the body down, and breaking the suspension.
Fire. Airbags pop in large fires. These stupid things have airbag suspension, literally the least reliable way to make suspension.
What - seriously? That's pants-on-head levels of stupid!
So, perfectly on-brand for the WankerPanzer.
ive never seen a cybertruck irl in my life. im glad
There's a store in my town with a branded one. Not that I ever planned on shopping there but now I definitely wont
I see them all the time and the only time I thought one actually looked cool in person, was one that was painted with a pearlescent rainbow effect and had pride flags on it.
Though I don't know why such a person would have a cybertruck to begin with unless they won it in a raffle or something.
I saw one posted somewhere that'd been polished to a mirror finish. It looked awesome, but then I remembered how much more dangerous such a thing would be on the road and I shelved it into the "cool, but fuck no" part of my brain
I wouldn't enter a raffle for a Cybertruck. The odds are too high that I'd be stuck with a Cybertruck.
If you can't sell it, at least turn it into some kind of punching bag. Hell, start a fundraiser with the promise of blowing it up, and I'll donate.
In its natural habitat
Lucky. I've seen way too many. 3 in one place at a time once, even
"Brand new"
I see them all the time in fucking Canada, but only on nice days since they can't drive on ice
Come to Oklahoma you will see these god awful things everywhere.
Same in California. I moved here from Oklahoma 2 years ago actually.
Really thought people California would know better? Fucking Oklahoma morons surround me. What line of work do you do that allowed you to get out of this hell and get California?
Believe it or not, residential pest control. And being able to leave Oklahoma was exactly why I took the offer. The company I work for decided to open new branches in California and asked me if I would want to open one of them and run the branch. Jumped right on it. They moved me and my family here and here I am. Expensive but worth it for the quality of life improvements for me and my family.
Edit - and also there's idiots everywhere. But there way less of them here. Problem is the population is a gazillion times bigger than Oklahoma.
Awesome that you got out. Hopefully we can do the same next 2 years.
As your fellow Oklahomie, I hope you do too. Wherever it may be.
Muhahahaha I see far too many. Worst of which is the one painted in Bitcoin logos.
Lucky you. I have to give so many the finger on my way to work and back home.