“I drive the equivalent of a 2024 Yugo that is laughably poor quality sold by a huckster and I paid enough to buy 4 reasonable cars. It’s the most gaudy design of any car ever produced since the dawn of time. Why would people laugh at me?”
How many women own cybertrucks???
We don’t need to compensate for dick size.
My two closest friends that justifiably own trucks are women. They are dirty and beaten up base model chevrolets. They certainly don’t need to compensate for dick size. They just have big dogs and work together on a farm!
Unexpected futa?
aluminum frame, steel skin. they put the horse in the cart and had the fare-payers pull the whole thing lolol
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Are they not all electric?
I like spinners and dont think they make someone an idiot. I probably won’t ever buy them myself but they are at least fun. I haven’t seen a set in ages though.
I was watching the taxi thing, and they didn’t know on which sentence to cheer. Some would cheer when others cheered for no reason, but always sporadically between small groups.
It’s a cult and they reinforce their worth in their echo chamber (cyber chamber? No echo chambers work).
Spinners are purely an aesthetic choice though. This truck literally doesn’t even perform its function as a truck.
This reminds me - I saw spinner wheels in public for the first time in probably 15+ years yesterday. I was genuinely shocked to see them. Man I hope they do not make a comeback.
Dude probably grew up around them, and now he’s all grown up and can finally afford them. Live and let live. At least it’s not a Hummer or a cyber truck
Spinners are dope! I wouldn’t buy them but they are certainly unique and flashy.
At least spinners are good at what they do! The Cybertruck isn’t even a good truck.
Friend of mine got spinners on his cheap ass Toyota a couple years back because they all got ditched after the craze ended
If you know where to look you can get good ones for shockingly cheap, and putting them on old beaters or a Prius is fucking hilarious
I had spinner hubcaps on my clapped out 85 Monte Carlo in 2004, it was awesome.
He forgot to gold plate his Tesla, that’s why.
Wait are you telling me there’s folks driving their cybertrucks unpainted
Well as they say, you can put lipstick on a pig…
Oh we are so putting lips and a curly tail on our neighbor’s cybertruck this halloween as a prank
You’ll void its warranty b doing crazy stunts like that.
Cringe
His Cybertruck still drives?
The trucks are cool to a point. I like the way they look, but they were built so poorly that they must be a nightmare to own, and nowhere near worth the price.
You genuinely like the way they look? I’m not trying to poke fun here I am legitimately curious, what is it you like about the aesthetics? I don’t see the appeal.
I kinda like the way it looks too. Not 100% but maybe 80%. But I generally like the look of the 80s style retro futuristic, highly angular vehicles like the DeLorean, Lamborghini Countach, and the Hyundai N74.
I don’t want the cybertruck simply because I don’t want a huge ass truck and the build quality, but if they had made a Ford Maverick sized one without the quality issues I’d be seriously considering it.
Itd look a lot better if they had given the body panels some subtle dips to break up its monotony. Kinda like the Jeep Wagoneer or Cherokee
I dig the look, but they’re wildly impractical. Sucks as both a car and a truck. And that’s not to mention build quality and inherent issues. Hard no.
Yes, but I think it’s mostly due to my affinity for Brutalism, which the Cybertruck adheres to at an absurd degree. Most people nowadays don’t seem to like Brutalism either, except for architects. The real problem is that some forms of Brutalism, like most modern office buildings, are way too simplistic. Like, Brutalism is inherently simple, but mere rectangles are not design.
Fair enough. I’m glad that people have different perspectives than me so I enjoy hearing about them. It is certainly a unique vehicle and there is something slightly charming about being bold in your design choices.
I saw one painted black, that was the second time I thought “huh that looks kinda cool.”
The first time was when they first unveiled it. Concept models always look futuristic on the floor, but would look ridiculous in the real world. Unfortunately the cybertruck never evolved past the concept model stage.
I like the styling too, its got a wicked 80s cyberpunk/Delorian/Tron vibe. I dislike… everything else. I get why a lot of people wouldnt like it, its a love it or hate it deal.
But now that Musk is such a polarising figure and the truck is such a polarising design I think a lot of people cant or wont separate the two.
It’s funny, I love the DeLorean/Tron style, but to me the CT looks nothing like that. Both of those styles have a certain sleekness to them, while nothing about the CT looks sleek.
I kinda liked the concept vehicle, but the production version managed to make just pile terrible little changes on top of one another until it came out looking like a bigger Pontiac Aztek that someone forgot to paint. It’s lumpy and quite ugly in a way I was only half-expecting.
I respect that they actually followed through on the original concept, and made something that looks like nothing else on the road.
i thought they looked cool, until i saw one in person. i honestly expected them to be about 30% smaller. they’re stupidly gigantic in real life.
I actually think they’re “too small”. Didn’t they shrink the size sometime after that dude broke the bulletproof window? I swear it was bigger on that demo.
I didn’t like the design when it was unveiled but it has grown on me a bit. I don’t hate it and I’m excited for the day I get to see one in person.
I think the vast majority of modern vehicles all look the same. I welcome anyone whose trying out something new. This applies to vehicle modifications as well; even if I don’t like what you did to your car, I’ll still rather see customized ones like that than the boring gray goo that is the rest of them.
I kind of did at first, and at certain angles I still do, but now that I’ve seen them at a lot of angles, I had begun to see them as a bit of a laughing stock. Like it’s the goofiest design ever when you see what it actually looks like
I would never own one because of (a) the disrespect for my right to repair and modify and (b) Piss-baby Musk baggage, but I admit I kinda like the styling too.
I’m also a fan of DeLoreans and other '80s sports cars.
I was taking a right turn out of a convenience store driveway the other day, waiting for the traffic to go by, and noticed the driver, a female, was apparently laughing hysterically at my truck. She was alone, pointing at my truck and laughing hard.
a female
Yeah, sounds like a Cyber truck owner
It seems like there’s a correlation between people that refer to women as “females” and people that don’t treat women well.
It’s almost like using a term typically reserved for livestock betrays that you see women as below you.
Nah, don’t lump farmers and such into this, please. Cows and bulls, hens and roosters, nannys and billys, sows and boars. There are also words for modified gender/castration similar to agender: steer, stoat, gelding, bellwether.
Depending on the situation it can be fun to ask, “A female what?” Try to get them to say human.
I’m almost sad I’ll never be able to point and laugh at one. The Cybertruck is so badly built, it’ll never be allowed on European roads.
That’s a big reason I shake my head at them when I see one. Brescia that are an affront to the collective safety of the rest of us.
I cycle (though at this point I try to stay off busy roads and on divided lanes), and the thought of a collision with one of these is terrifying.
I shake my head at jacked up bro dozers the same way. They all scream insecurity.
Based
There’s a Tesla showroom near me and dozens of cybertrucks out front, all in a couple of lines. They look even more ridiculous when they’re like that, like the point is really driven home about just how ugly they are.
Like a bunch of dumpsters lined up on garbage collection day.
I’m still not entirely convinced it’s not a practical joke from Elon…
The man is demonstrably not smart enough to pull off a joke that good deliberately
He chooses what to drive. If he likes it, that’s his right. It’s also right of the others not to like it and find it ridiculous. There is no objective reason to drive a Cybertruck except to show off. Well, it backfired for him.
My opinion of Musk has nothing to do with it. For the price of it, its ugly as fuck.
I’m not a fan of priuses either, but priuses don’t a) take wild swings in design in order to be “edgy” and b) price themselves according to supposed “cool points”.
With or without Musk, your choices reflect who you are. This guy bought an overpriced vehicle in order to be “cool” and now he’s butt hurt that no one agrees with him.
Remove all the hype and it looks stupid
Hell, include the hype, and it looks stupid
Jesse, on his part, suggests Elon Musk’s controversial nature is to blame for the people laughing at him.
While I’m sure that’s part of it, mostly it’s just the fact that you blew 6 figures on a poorly assembled low res rust triangle
Exactly, few people are laughing at people in any other tesla. It’s specifically this vehicle because it’s a impractical hunk of junk AND ugly as fuck.
lol, imagine buying a fkn tesla.
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Rivians are silly. Much less silly than the Cybertruck but still excessively large and heavy with pedestrian-murdering front ends, among other gripes like not having a glovebox or a power button
People who own pickup trucks but don’t need them for work should be sent to live on the pacific garbage patch.
+1 for the creative punishment of idiots.
I don’t know why there aren’t any small pickups. I used to have a proton jumbuck, little two seater pickup. You could get a ton of wood in the back and it was the same size as a car so you could park it easily. Really useful little thing, but you don’t seem to get them anymore.
All I want is a LHD Kei truck.
I’d love something the size of a 90s S10
Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz are the closest things available in the US now.
IIRC it is due to how taxes are related to size and weight classes of trucks in the US
When they only made the S, and they were super rare space age tech, Tesla was kinda cool. Now they make road going appliances, and the owner is a terrible person.
Even back then, they were shitty, closed-source spyware-boxes.
Yes, but most people don’t give a shit about that.
what car from the last 15 years isn’t, though?
I abhor Tesla and their nazi CEO but to think any other automaker is any better with regard to privacy or openness?
There’s a reason all of my cars are more than 15 years old.
I don’t blame you at all, though there are definitely some tradeoffs
I’m ok with needing to keep an 8track collection instead of CDs if it means that my car won’t report my every sneeze to Ford or whothefuckever.
Yeah but that isn’t/wasn’t really unique to them
They seem neat, but I’d like to experience their UI first. If it’s as awful as the Teslas I’ve ridden in, then nah.
Also, want a front-end winch.
Because the front face of the car looks like it’s exasperated by itself.
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