Cybertruck version launched at $59K

[AKrietzer]

Looks like Tesla may introduce a new SUV in its lineup. Look familiar?

What do you think it looks like? Doesn't look familiar to me at all.

 

[AKrietzer]

This?

 

[cadblu]

This?

Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking about!

 

[E90400K]

This?

Le SmartCar?

 

[ScooterAsheville]

Boggles my mind that they're still producing and selling these things. But they are. There is a market of some size. Part of that market is Elon's other companies, which have been ordered to purchase Cybertrucks for their fleets to goose sales figures. Can't embarrass Elon, right?

Saw one of these just last night at the Korean restaurant. Oddly, there was also a Hummer in the lot.

 

[AKrietzer]

Le SmartCar?

1974 - 1976 Vanguard CitiCar (electric).

 

[E90400K]

1974 - 1976 Vanguard CitiCar (electric).

I was kidding. Play off the Le Car (Renault R5)...

 

[E90400K]

Boggles my mind that they're still producing and selling these things. But they are. There is a market of some size. Part of that market is Elon's other companies, which have been ordered to purchase Cybertrucks for their fleets to goose sales figures. Can't embarrass Elon, right?

Saw one of these just last night at the Korean restaurant. Oddly, there was also a Hummer in the lot.

Where I live most everyone has a real pickup truck (Chevy, Ford, RAM). A Cybertruck sighting is a rare occurrence. Yet yesterday, one passed me that was wrapped in matte black. It was tolerable to look at. There is also a chap near me who drives a Rivian RT1. I still just can't achieve acceptance of the HR Puff N' Stuff front end. It's a face only a mother could love (to my eye at least).

 

[ScooterAsheville]

I was kidding. Play off the Le Car (Renault R5)...

I had a Renault R5 in college. Loved it. Cheapest new hunk of junk I ever bought in my life, but fun. I remember patching the muffler with duct tape and a soup can. Held up for a year. But that thing was rusted to the ground in 4 years in northern PA.

I take that back. The cheapest new hunk of junk I bought in my life was my 1974 Mustang II, which would accellerate 0-60 in two days. The Le Car was #2.

 

[bloo]

Where I live most everyone has a real pickup truck (Chevy, Ford, RAM). A Cybertruck sighting is a rare occurrence. Yet yesterday, one passed me that was wrapped in matte black. It was tolerable to look at. There is also a chap near me who drives a Rivian RT1. I still just can't achieve acceptance of the HR Puff N' Stuff front end. It's a face only a mother could love (to my eye at least).

The RT1 can't do a little coz it can't do enough.

 

[fuzzyweis]

I feel like the main issue with the Cybertruck is Elon, and those terrible panels.

From a platform perspective, it's a more efficient form than like the F150 lightning, it's 10 inches shorter than a Lightning, with half foot more bed space, but still 5 passenger seating, still a little frunk too.

As others have said if they made it look better like a bigger Telo, still space age but not low res wedge with those glued on panels, and if Elon wasn't always going off the rails on social and in the government, I think it'd have been received MUCH better.

But Tesla seems to do that every 3rd car so far, Roadster, Model S good, Model X should've been a slam dunk, but falcon doors in the rear only was a fail. Model 3, Model Y good, Cybertruck not so good. It's like they start to hit a good stride and then shoot themselves in the foot. Now they're gonna do cybercab/optimus, not sure either of those is a winner.

-Jim