Tesla pickup....ugly as hell?

[beowulf]

That's pretty much exactly right. This thing isn't going to be taking much market share even from the Tacoma crowd IMO so the full size crowd is out of the question.

Imagine being a contractor and pulling up to a job site with a ground version of the Star Fox vehicle.

It will supposedly be able to tow 14,000lbs but that's with the really expensive 3 motor version so ya not sure if people who actually use that much towing capacity will be willing to shell out the money.

 

[supsens]

It will supposedly be able to tow 14,000lbs but that's with the really expensive 3 motor version so ya not sure if people who actually use that much towing capacity will be willing to shell out the money.

I know he wants to turn the market upside down and all that jazz but his company is a public company, if he is going to mass produce trucks he owes it to his shareholders to build one that can hold campers,tool boxes,sled decks and all the billions of things made for current vehicles. Most trucks are sold to farmers and construction guys, people that tow..this ‘truck’ is a bad idea.
Anybody towing that much weight is going to want a gooseneck/5th wheel setup so they don’t die driving down the highway.

 

[supsens]

This part was also pretty funny.

It’s a fake setup to go viral and make the ‘fail’ trending section. I guess it works but all the fake crap in life is starting to drive me nuts

 

[beowulf]

 

[bobbyking]

Unpopular opinion: I actually love the look of this.

you're just drunk

 

[Fantomas]

The public paid for this monstrosity, you know.

Musk’s genius is primarily in the subsidy-seeking realm. By 2015, U.S. governments alone had given his companies US$5 billion through direct grants, tax breaks, cut-rate loans, tax credits and rebates

Lawrence Solomon: How Tesla’s Elon Musk became the master of fake business

 

[Cyclones Rock]

The public paid for this monstrosity, you know.


Lawrence Solomon: How Tesla’s Elon Musk became the master of fake business

No disagreement on this except for the fact that edubiz (college) in the US is a much bigger fake business than Tesla could ever hope to become.

But there's no doubt that Telsa has taken the title of biggest automotive huckster in my lifetime from the former titleholder John Z. Delorean

 

[Back in Black]

I like it, I'd drive it! Buy it for me for Xmas....

 

[CrazyMonkey1208]

Looks like something a 4 year old would draw..like a cheese wedge with wheels

 

[beowulf]

So Musk being Musk and loving hyperbole and bluster has said that if released now the Cyberstuck would cost $1M each....due to the battery technology. Can only bring down the price by ramping up production of the model Y.

Elon Musk says the Cybertruck will cost $1 million if Tesla does this

Musk said if Tesla started building the Cybertruck at low volumes the pickups could cost "$1 million a piece," so it will be holding off until things get sorted out.
Tesla had been aiming to have the first Cybertrucks delivered by the end of 2021, and still advertises it as such. Musk didn't confirm that target still stands, but added that he thinks the vehicle, which is currently listed with starting prices ranging from $39,990 to $69,990, will be Tesla's "best product ever."

 

[Winger98]

I still don't mind the look of the thing. And being a fat middle aged guy I really appreciate the idea of a built in ramp to get into the bed.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Yeah but could two awesome vehicles really have a baby that hideous?

 

[Lt Dan]

I drove by a Rivian the other day. It looked great. Much better than the ugly ass Tesla truck

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Yeah but could two awesome vehicles really have a baby that hideous?

Outside of Back to the Future, the Delorean really wasn't very awesome. They did make a few gold ones, though.



Around the 8 minute mark.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Outside of Back to the Future, the Delorean really wasn't very awesome. They did make a few gold ones, though.



Around the 8 minute mark.

A car doesn't have to be good to be awesome.

The DeLorean was the Yor: Hunter From the Future of automobiles: no matter how shitty it is from a technical standpoint, you still have a guy killing a pteranodon/bat/flyingwhatever with a bow + arrow and then using its somehow-immediately-rigor-mortis'ed carcass to 1) hang glide into a cavern filled with cavemen that stole his woman; and 2) deliver a flying dropkick to the villain in mid-flight.

 

[CrazyMonkey1208]

That Tesla truck makes the Pontiac Aztek look like a Trans Am. Damn, is it a requirement for electric cars to be hideously fugly?

 

[82Ninety42011]

This thing actually ever gonna be released? Seems like it's been years they saying it's ready.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Is this piece of garbage ever going to be released? I'm waiting to laugh at one driving by on the road.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Is this piece of garbage ever going to be released? I'm waiting to laugh at one driving by on the road.

"ITS FASTER THAN YOUR TRUCK AND DADDY ELON IS AN ENTREPRENEUR"
- idiot tesla fanboys unaware they are driving a truck from StarFox on the SNES