Posted on 12/01/2023 8:48:53 AM PST by Red Badger
Plus, it’s ugly.
Nice bait and switch Elon
Watch Tesla’s Cybertruck Beat A Porsche 911 In A Drag Race...While Towing A Porsche
https://hothardware.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-beats-porsche-while-towing-porsche
Tinfoil origami is too nice of a description
If you got all hot and bothered about being the first Apple-like fanboy to have an EV truck — you got just what you deserved.
I beg to differ. The Cybertruck is introducing a 48 volt low voltage architecture (up from the traditional 12 volts) and is the first commercially-available vehicle to use a pure steer-by-wire system with no mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the road wheels.
Those two items alone make the Tesla Cybertruck a pioneer (and are the only two things I find interesting about the Cybertruck.)
worse- it’s fugly
No surprise. NO Tesla is inexpensive
Nothing I read here would put me in the market for any of the losers mentioned,even if I had the money, which I most certainly do not.
What could go wrong?
Nothing I can read about these trucks would put me in the market for any one of those losers, even if I had the money, which I don’t.
Nothing I can read about these trucks would put me in the market for any one of those losers, even if I had the money, which I don’t.
How many suckers fell for Musk’s fake promises?
Hopefully, they can get their deposits back.
My 2007 Toyota pick-up has 240K miles and still hardly costs me anything in maintenance. Its got dings and scratches, a torn up bumper, a rusted tailgate and it is excellent urban camouflage when I work in the city.
Could we expect the same from cybertruck, or any EV for that matter?
First of all it’s uglier than Helen Thomas. Second it’s not fit for purpose.
All in all a waste of design talent, assembly man hours, raw materials and capital.
I recently put a new engine in my old 3/4 ton Chev. I have no desire to change to a vehicle with about 1/10th the capability.
Plus when we are off-roading on BLM land I can pour more gas into the tank from a can. No need to set up an array of solar cells and wait several days for a charge.
Ugly is right.
Is there any new full size truck that sells for $39,000?
Even the new Subaru Impreza, a gas-powered economy car, starts at $23,000-$28,000. And dealers always mark the car up several more thousand.
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