• StalinForTime [comrade/them]English
    11•2 years ago

    WTF do people buy this thing? Like I’ve seen teslas but the vibe is that it’s just pretentious young arriviste wankers who wanna look like they’re breaking some kind of glass ceiling, ironically.

    Like are the top level bougies actually buying these things?

    • SoyViking [he/him]English
      7•2 years ago

      There’s a lot of bazinga bougies out there. It’s less than a year ago that I witnessed my boss drunk at a party ranting about the brilliance of the minds of Musk and Peterson.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]English
      8•2 years ago

      No, no one is buying this. There’s a preorder form that allows you to pay $100 to have the option of buying one of the first ones when it ships. It’s 2 years behind schedule and every display model that they’ve brought to conferences and expos has been nonfunctional or broken. maybe some time next year they’ll rush vehicles out to reviewers and it’s going to suck so much ass that only the most delusional early adopter fanboys will actually shell out for one.

      • Adkml [he/him]English
        9•2 years ago

        Unfortunately >only the most delusional early adopter fanboys will actually shell out for one.

        Is a non insignificant consumer base

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]English
          5•2 years ago

          I think Tesla’s early success, such that it was, was because it was the only option. Since the Cybertruck was announced, multiple quality electric pickups have been released. The F-150 Lightning is a variant of a beloved brand, and the Rivian R1T is targeting the exact same market with the added gimmick of a motor per wheel and actual design and build quality. Unless they can severely underprice the Cybertruck, I don’t know how they can appeal to consumers who aren’t online 18 hours a day.

    • @[email protected]English
      50•2 years ago

      They lack rigidity in flat areas from the lack of contouring, so need to use a thicker gauge material to to keep panels stiff. You can even see the unintended curvature in the door panels

      • emizeko [they/them]English
        52•2 years ago

        Elon Musk wondering why engineers use arches in construction and concluding it’s because they’re old-fashioned fuddy duddies

      • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]English
        44•2 years ago

        Yea, and also, like - the human eye is incredibly good at noticing any deviation from perfectly flat, especially if you’re talking about a semi-reflective bare-metal surface. Any little imperfection will immediately draw your eye because light bounces off it weird. There’s a reason every car manufacturer ever only evokes the sense of flatness, but usually incorporates some more complex bends, light lines, stuff that both serves stability functions, helps when the panel will inevitably contract or extend due to thermal differences annnnd makes you not see little imperfections in the geometry as easily.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]English
    14•2 years ago

    if they tinted it yellow and put big googly eyes on it, it would be the Coupe from Stunt Race FX on SNES. and the googly eyes would be the best thing about it. what a literal box of shit.

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]English
    51•2 years ago

    I think they chose the design because they thought piecing together and welding flat panels would be cheaper/faster than a curved fiberglass/carbon fiber body.

    But it just looks like something someone made in their backyard. Like when a dad buys a Harbor Freight welder to make their kid a little play car. It looks like it’s going to rust and cut the shit out of me.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 years ago

    Guess I’m in the minority that actually likes this. I hate washing my car and I hate the maintenance of gas cars. I literally dgaf about what it looks like. I’ve never cared. Probably why I drive a beat-up Nissan leaf. Can it haul my shit around and go 400+ miles on charge? From what I’ve read, it’s got a 6ft bed with added space in the frunk (or whatever they call that). If they can make that for under $50k, they’ll have plenty of people buying it. These release candidate builds aren’t meant to be final products. Now, if it looks like this when they deliver to customers, then people should complain.

  • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]English
    54•2 years ago

    Finally, after all these years I’ve wasted staring at stainless steel refrigerator just thinking “I wish I could crush a family of pedestrians with this”

    • SkibidiToiletFanAcct [none/use name]English
      38•2 years ago

      It’s ugly and aggressive like a G-wagon. It’s gonna be a suburban status symbol like a Hummer or Gladiator, not a work vehicle becaue turns out, there is barely a market for armored pickup. Maybe it’s musk’s Boer DNA that inspired this though. He should ask his South African friend if he can license the anti-carjacking flamethrower from them.