Posted on 11/06/2026 1:19:05 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Elon Musk's angular truck appears to be headed for the scrapyard of history, and Jeremy White of Wired is not mourning. He slams the Cybertruck as an overhyped experiment that never lived up to its billing: produced for less than four years, plagued by recalls and design flaws, and now being phased out at Tesla's Texas factory to make room for the company's autonomous Cybercab. Despite Musk's boasts of "off the charts" demand and more than a million reservations, US sales remained modest, with under 50,000 delivered by March of last year and fewer than 12,000 sold in the first three quarters of this year, according to Kelley Blue Book data.
White runs through a string of safety issues and recalls, adding that internal documents flagged basic performance problems before launch. Yet Musk insists the Cybertruck is being sacrificed not because it failed, but because Cybercab is the future. White says he is curious if Musk's "obvious lies about the promise of the Cybertruck amount to fraud on the same level as Elizabeth Holmes or nah because it's Elon Musk. She bilked half a billion from entrepreneurs, he took $7 billion from 'normal' people (being generous) and delivered 71k piles of garbage." He notes that if "1/14th of those people feel completely scammed then it's the same level as Holmes (~5,000 individuals)." Read the full piece.
“White runs through a string of safety issues and recalls, adding that internal documents flagged basic performance problems before launch”
Oh good greif. Change “cybertruck” to “ford bronco” and it’s still an accurate article.
I’d say both.
Or Ford trucks needing warranty work. Too few mechanics and none of them want to do warranty work. Not enough money in it.
Besides the Cyber truck, the EV market is going gangbusters. (do I really need the /s?)
Funny, I saw two of them in about 5 minutes today. Butt ugly.
Weird looking for sure. BUT, I know some owners. They are happy with them, warts and all. (I don’t think they are faking it. They have enough money that if it was a mistake, they’d just trash it and go on.)
I just checked Carvana and every one on their site is tagged “Purchase in Progress”, all in the $75-82K range. So I’d bet for everyone who has one to sell there’s a ready buyer.
Ahhh. Just slap a DeLorean logo on the front bumper and you’re good to go!
I see them fairly frequently. Not every time I go to town, but often.
I actually saw one the other day towing a serious dual axle open top utility truck. Unusual to see one doing serious pickup truck duty.
Utility trailer, that is.
I see lots of them on the road, in all different colors too and they actually look good in some colors.
In my little bubble area there it is not uncommon for me to stop for a traffic light and see tesla cars all around me.
Sometimes it is scary cause I know how fast they are and how inexperienced the h1b holders driving them are
It's called post-purchase rationalization. Telsa owners -- who by and large are neither particularly rational nor secure -- would be loathe to admit they'd spent $75,000 on a truck they don't absolutely adore.
That admission would give them cause to take away your Elon Musk secret decoder ring.
” . . . would be loathe to admit they’d spent $75,000 on a truck they don’t absolutely adore.”
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As I said, these guys are the type that if they didn’t really like them, the cybertrucks would already be sold (or scrapped). These guys didn’t get wealth by doing stupid stuff, but a $75,000 dollar loss would be no big deal. They’ve certainly made bigger mistakes on a whim and didn’t bat an eye.
The other day I came upon a poorly designed intersection of three roads, no designated turn lanes, and traffic was gummed up because a single Tesla model 3 didn’t know what to do. It sat there frozen until horns started blaring, then it started to move. I wondered if it was in “full self driving (supervised)” mode and the driver was asleep and the horns woke him up.
I have yet to see one hauling a sheet of plywood or a load of dirt.
Cybertruck owners should sue to get a refund on their education, since they were obviously stupid enough to pay huge amounts of money for something that hideously ugly.
Probably more anti-Musk.
Anyone buying a cybertruck does so to stand out and make a statement.
A cybertruck is not a farm vehicle, a work vehicle, offroad vehicle, or a vehicle to pull a boat with.
A person buys a cybertruck simply to stand out, be seen and make a statement.
I sort of see them similar to the DeLoreans.
Say what you want about FSD, but likely saved my butt yesterday on the freeway.
I was between two trucks in the same lane. I told the car to change lanes. It started to make the move at which point another car comes into the same lane from behind the rear truck. The guy was likely doing 90! My car got out of the way and the guy barely missed me.
So yeah I am a fan of FSD. I have the older computer too so it isn’t near as good as a new car.
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