Is the Cyber Truck a Flop?

[Gale Hawkins]

Was driving into town yesterday, and got behind a vehicle that I couldn't make out.
My brain was trying to identify it. This was my internal dialog.
"What heck is that? Its really tall and wide. Where are the tail lights? Is this some sort of DIY canopy? Looks like they did an okay job slapping it together, but this just looks out of proportion. Those side mirrors, don't seem to give much of a rear view.
Wait..... those mirrors look familiar, being triangular. Is this a Cyber Truck?"

I'd never seen one from this angle on the road before. And I confirmed it was a Cyber Truck when they slowed for their exit. My first impression was, man this thing is ugly, viewed from the rear. I really did think for a moment, someone had chopped out the back end of a sedan and built this in their back yard as a canopy.

They continue growing on the general public. About 6: 30 yesterday afternoon I went by The body shop to see if they had made any progress on my model. Y and got mugged by two bulldogs belonging to the body shop owner. I knew if they were out the owner had to be outside probably so I walked around the corner of the building and he was working with an old van that he had picked up for $500 just to have an extra set of wheels around when people needed one. He mentioned seeing a Cyber the other day and stated they were starting to grow on him. Radical new products often are slow to appeal to a certain subgroup of the population. He said the Cyber truck was starting to appeal to him, especially since he's gotten a better understanding of the Tesla brand and their quality.

 

[WinterDeere]

Radical new products often are slow to appeal to a certain subgroup of the population.

They also look aged and dated more quickly, than anything classic. Remember how those "modern" houses of the 1970's looked by the late 1990's?

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

It's official: The Tesla Cybertruck is a flop

The Tesla Cybertruck has done what very few modern-day vehicles have been able to achieve – become one of the most recognizable cars on the road. However, Tesla has a major issue on its hands: Its angular electric pickup isn't selling in the numbers it had hoped for.

newatlas.com

 

[Axing]

The car didn't even pass our pedestrian protection tests, so it wasn't introduced to China

 

[Oaktree]

They also look aged and dated more quickly, than anything classic. Remember how those "modern" houses of the 1970's looked by the late 1990's?

It's one thing if a radical new design improves functionality, but that isn't the case with the CT. The basic pickup design has been unchanged for almost a century now for one reason...it works. Then again, the CT was never designed to be a work vehicle.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

They also look aged and dated more quickly, than anything classic. Remember how those "modern" houses of the 1970's looked by the late 1990's?

Always having a powerful 240 volt generator functionality with me at all times that makes no noise I find attractive at my age.

 

[WinterDeere]

Always having a powerful 240 volt generator functionality with me at all times that makes no noise I find attractive at my age.

Definitely. I love the functionality, in all regards excepting the trailer hitches that tend to fall off.

But by intentionally making the thing look so goofy and austentatious, they really alienated many potential buyers, including me. If it looked more like a normal truck, I might be a buyer, once they fixed the trailering issue. But I'll never drive anything that looks as stupid as that truck.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Always having a powerful 240 volt generator functionality with me at all times that makes no noise I find attractive at my age.

This is caught my attention.

 

[jyoutz]

Definitely. I love the functionality, in all regards excepting the trailer hitches that tend to fall off.

But by intentionally making the thing look so goofy and austentatious, they really alienated many potential buyers, including me. If it looked more like a normal truck, I might be a buyer, once they fixed the trailering issue. But I'll never drive anything that looks as stupid as that truck.

The Rivian EV truck at least looks somewhat like a truck.

 

[WM75Guy]

GMC used the Avalanche platform for their EV truck. Doesn't look too bad. Not the same as a 1/2 ton chassis but functional as a truck.