Is the Cyber Truck a Flop?

[NoTrespassing]

Seriously upgraded if it goes 3x further

The original battery was failing, so if it had a 50 mile range it now has a 150 mile range.

 

[dfkrug]

Motor Trend did a comparison article, testing the CT, the Ford Lightning, and the Rivian R1T. The R1T won.

Interesting that the CT was the lightest by 200 lb, but all were near 7000 lb. The Ford was cheapest, at just under $100K, and the other 2, just over $100K. Before taxes and registration.

All lost as much as half of their range, towing a 3500# trailer.

 

[5030]

Flop or not entirely depends on what you want to spend your money on. I like my Cousin's Cyber truck but I'd never own one.

 

[5030]

Motor Trend did a comparison article, testing the CT, the Ford Lightning, and the Rivian R1T. The R1T won.

Interesting that the CT was the lightest by 200 lb, but all were near 7000 lb. The Ford was cheapest, at just under $100K, and the other 2, just over $100K. Before taxes and registration.

All lost as much as half of their range, towing a 3500# trailer.

In my asthetic view, the Rivan is even fuglier than the CT. The front end reminds me of a puffer fish.

 

[WinterDeere]

Rivian R1T. The R1T won.

I love the Rivian numbers, but hate the cosmetics.

Hey... I think I said the same thing about the CyberTruck.

It's like all of these EV truck manufacturers are trying their hardest to design vehicles no truck buyer will ever want to drive. Hasn't anyone told them it's not that hard to stick with more-traditional styling?

 

[5030]

I don't consider any vehicle that costs over 100 grand to be inexpensive, but then I invest my money in things that don't depreciate anyway. Don't care what a vehicle costs actually, other than they are a poor investment. If you want to throw your hard earned money away, by all means buy a vehicle.

 

[WinterDeere]

I don't consider any vehicle that costs over 100 grand to be inexpensive...

1000 hp passenger cars and pickup trucks have never been cheap. When viewed from that perspective, Rivian's pricing really doesn't seem so absurd.

The Dodge SRT-10's ran around $50k, way back in 2004, and they were only a 500 hp 2wd truck. That inflates to nearly $90k today, for a truck that's about as useless as they come... I'm not sure they were even towing-rated.

So by that comparison, $100k - $120k for 1000 hp on a 4wd chassis seems downright reasonable. But the problem is, most people aren't shopping 1000 hp pickup trucks.

 

[5030]

I love the Rivian numbers, but hate the cosmetics.

Hey... I think I said the same thing about the CyberTruck.

It's like all of these EV truck manufacturers are trying their hardest to design vehicles no truck buyer will ever want to drive. Hasn't anyone told them it's not that hard to stick with more-traditional styling?

You got that right. Like they are trying the design the most ugly vehicle and sell it for the biggest bucks. Least the Ford looks like a pickup truck.

I watch ads for all the new 'electric' vehicles and in my view, they are all varing degrees of fugly.

One ad I find to be particularly bad is the one for the Lincoln hybrid with the black gal and the microphone. I have yet to figure out what the ad agency is attempting to get across. I know one thing and that is, If I was paying that ad agency to do an ad like that, They'd be terminated, immediately.

 

[tradosaurus]

You got that right. Like they are trying the design the most ugly vehicle and sell it for the biggest bucks. Least the Ford looks like a pickup truck.

I watch ads for all the new 'electric' vehicles and in my view, they are all varing degrees of fugly.

One ad I find to be particularly bad is the one for the Lincoln hybrid with the black gal and the microphone. I have yet to figure out what the ad agency is attempting to get across. I know one thing and that is, If I was paying that ad agency to do an ad like that, They'd be terminated, immediately.

After driving my Y for the last 2 years I see the majority of ICE vehicles as boring and downright ugly. My ICE coversion to Tesla experience must be like the experience going from horse/buggy to the Model T.

 

[5030]

1000 hp passenger cars and pickup trucks have never been cheap. When viewed from that perspective, Rivian's pricing really doesn't seem so absurd.

The Dodge SRT-10's ran around $50k, way back in 2004, and they were only a 500 hp 2wd truck. That inflates to nearly $90k today, for a truck that's about as useless as they come.

So by that comparison, $100k - $120k for 1000 hp on a 4wd chassis seems downright reasonable.

I agree to a point and that point is none of them are REALLY worth the asking price and what drives me to only buy off lease vehicles where the origional lessor pays down the inflated cost and gets nothing in return.

Got my eye on a soon to be off lease Chevy Equinox hybrid. Don't care what the make is so long as it's off lease. low mileage and has at least some factory warranty left on it and preferrably one I can extend the warranty out a couple years simply because vehicles today are so complex that it's almost impossible to do anything other than routine maintenance. Even my high buck Autel scan tool is stymied by some of the newest 'junk' in the trunk today. At least the Autel will tell you what part(s) have failed but then for what it costs, it should. Candidly, I like Autel products, even if they are Chinese and I own a pair of Autel drones as well. I like Autel drones because unlike DJI, they have no built in (on the main board) geo fencing and, they are Kubota Orange as well.