The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.
Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”
Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”
There’s so many child crushers on the road but that one is definitely one of the crushiest. Having fewer of them on the road is a wine for road safety, especially for everyone not in a car.
So they are ending production of the vehicle nobody wanted in order to replace it with production of the vehicle no one will buy. Yeah I wouldn’t be getting into Tesla stock right now.
Why don’t they just make more cars the people actually want?
Cybercabs will be for those businesses run by other wealthy billionaires so they can shuttle
employeesexecs and high profilers around, overtake Rideshare companies, and can be sold in bulk vs consumers who’ve turned on Musk.Here comes the next auto industry bailout, T-Minus 10-12 years.
I think the model Y and 3 are still selling well. Im not sure how much variation you can really have with an EV considering most other cars are segmented by performance. Perhaps they could make a giant SUV or something but those people are already buying Tahoes, Yukons, and Escalades.
the do serve the purpose of announcing a douchebag in the vicinity.
Tesla had every opportunity to make the Cybertruck the modern-day DMC-12 (DeLorean); but it feels like Elon and the dream team fell out of the decision tree and got every wrong branch on the way down.
John DeLorean designed some of the hottest rides for GM before branching off on his own! He was truly a pioneer in the automotive design segment, despite a failure with his own company. I think drugs and a lavish lifestyle caught up with him by them.
They did do exactly that though. The DMC-12 was also an ugly badly-designed flop. It only gained iconic status as a result of its highly modded version in Back to the Future.
This was my thought exactly. Hopefully the rest of the trend holds and it completely bankrupts the CEO who will later be arrested on drug smuggling charges.
But let’s not put it in an iconic movie this time.
I wonder how long they’ll make parts for it. I’d like to see them disappear as soon as possible.
Magnuson Moss Warranty Act dictates that they make parts for 10 years but in current America, laws mean a lot less than how many digits your bank account has.
My main issue with the Cybertruck (before Elon revealed himself to be a total ass) was that ITS NOT A TRUCK. How can you call it a truck without a truck bed?
welp. here I stand. corrected.
Its a truck in the same way that the Avalanche was a truck.
It oddly matches a lot of other current day trucks in that regard. Auto manufacturers keep making them with bigger cabins and smaller beds.
Unfortunately true. They sell more to people who do less. There’s no shame in owning a big van that can do the same things but still service a family.
I’ll say it’s not that odd to me, as someone who used to work retail in a store environment that sold TVs in the US 75% of truck owners never use their truck for ‘truck’ purposes. Of the remaining 25% the majority still maybe do once a year typically as a favor for someone and not for personal use. Hardly anyone ever had something basic as bungee cords in their truck let alone ratchet straps when we would recommend keeping the TV upright and strapping it down. Literally after a while we just stopped even bothering to ask and we just broke company policy and would lay it down flat even though it risked it being damaged because we were tired of getting bad customer surveys about it when we would tell them if we lay it down and it is broken they can’t return it.
Basically the vast vast vast majority of truck owners should it best just own an SUV (and don’t get me started about how many don’t understand how big their vehicle is when it comes to driving or parking; these days I drive a Ford t250 work truck for work and truck drivers continue to drive me insane)
While that is a shitty car ‘invented’ by a shitty human, I wish more car companies would dare to create cars that look different. It’s 2026 and our cars still look like they did 20 years ago.
I was recently in Japan and was in awe of how cool their minivans look. They have more of a “cab over” design with really aggressive looking front ends.
Because most car companies want vehicles they can sell outside of North America and most other countries have laws.
If you want to innovate you still have to make sure that the vehicle meets minimum standards for things like materials, edge angle, position of bumpers, lighting design (none of this let’s use the brake lights as indicators nonsense), and weight restrictions. The cybertruck violates all of them.
A lot of that’s because there’s a finite number of ways to shape a car that is aerodynamic, fits people, and has efficient collision behavior.
People like interesting shapes until they find out it’s less safe, uncomfortable, more expensive and loud.
There’s way better examples of visual innovation than the Tesla Cybertruck though
I respect them for attempting something so different but holy shit that thing was literally a dumpster fire
If you offered me a El Camino crossed with a DeLorean that was also an EV, I’d be hyped. The Cybertruck is neither of those things. It’s a lowploy SUV.
edit: Actually. Give me the Gadgetmobile where the back is reconfigurable with different modules.
I don’t. It was a trash idea created by a trash man who believes everyone’s a sucker.
You’re not wrong
It wasn’t always on fire. And when it was you could usually find at least someone willing to piss on it to try (and fail) to put it out. Hell, often when it wasn’t on fire, even.
That should have been there slogan for it.
Get a cyber truck, it isn’t always on fire
Existing Cybertruck owners will have fun sourcing parts as they break down.
Me:
There are a lot of unsold Cybertrucks. The only reason so many even sold was because Musk used SpaceX to buy much of the inventory
If there’s demand for the parts, they’ll be able to get them for a good while
I thought it was also forcing the US government to purchase them as well.
It’s gonna be hilarious when they can no longer get parts in 5 years. They’ll still swear to the quality of Tesla though.
They’ll just have to buy another new Tesla.
Are they still blocking people from selling used cyber trucks?
Are they still blocking people from selling used cyber trucks?
wat?
Cybertruck purchase agreements prevented re-selling the truck for a year. It was an anti-scalping measure
Turned out there wasn’t enough demand for the trucks for scalping to be a problem. It was only seen as necessary because of production delays and low production numbers, which probably contributed to apparent demand
It is a little funny to think about in hindsight. Tesla was worried demand would be so high scalpers would be buying up vehicles to flip, but demand ended up being so low the line had to be stopped within 4 years
wow. cybertruck bros are even dumber than I thought
The original delivery agreement for the Foundation Series (initial 1000 built) when they first launched required you to get Tesla’s permission to resell the vehicle for the first year.
Which is common for limited availability vehicles upon release from basically every manufacturer. The average person is never buying limited edition vehicles so it’s not relevant to 99.9% of the population, and something they’ve never heard of. Ford does it with every limited release Mustang variant for a common example.
The two primary reasons are essentially to prevent scalping, and so they can guarantee they receive back any vehicles with initial production run issues so engineers can study them. But facts don’t stop media reporting, especially when it comes to headlines about Musk.
Some manufacturers keep ownership limitations like that in place indefinitely. Ferrari famously sued Deadmau5 because of his Purrari modifications, so he had to remove them and sold the car, replacing it with a Meowclaren instead.
He specifically got in trouble for replacing the badge with a prancing cat and the Ferrari name with Purrari:
One of the easiest and most common changes people make to their cars is changing or removing badges like that. Can’t with a Ferrari though.
I would say I would never buy a Ferrari (which is true anyway) but I also wouldn’t consider that to even qualify as actual ownership, so even if I did pay for one, I still wouldn’t be willing to call it “buying”.
Not like I’ll ever want or be able to afford a Fertari, but fuck that.
I pay money for something I own it. I do what I please with my own possessions.
Tesla banned you from ever buying a new Tesla if you sold your cyber truck, and had a clause to sue you for $50k or the amount you got from the sale, whichever was greater.
I guess they stopped doing this at some point, but if you bought it when it was new you weren’t allowed to resell it for a year
It’s got a massive battery pack that can be used for backup power. I’d totally buy one that doesn’t move and put it on blocks in front of my double wide.
How massive is it? My Silverado is 200KWh and can power the home in an emergency…
122.4 according to Car & Driver https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46010154/tesla-cybertruck-battery-capacity/
Not as much but with depreciation it might end up being cheaper per kWh
There’s plenty of use in a dumpster, after all.
There will be plenty of dead ones in junkyards to take parts from.
Unlike most people it seems, I personally like the look of the cybertruck. But that is where the liking it ends.
Well, the 48V accessory system instead of 12V is also a good idea. Lets you use much lighter wires to carry the same loads, just requires components practically no one is making compared to 12V. But it would be a good thing for all cars to go to. Would save a some weight and a lot of materials.
But that’s about it.
I’m with you there; well the concept images at least. The version that made it to production was not as good.
I saw one in person once; way too big for NZ roads; certainly not nice looking.
But Musk went all Nazi and the thing falls apart…so even if they fixed all the issues and made a smaller one; I’d still not be in the market for one.
I don’t agree with you, but you do you.
This place can be too toxic. You get a vote for liking what you like and not being afraid to express it appropriately.
I liked the look, not the execution nor who’s behind Tesla
Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly Absurd
Hey, just like Elon.
If it had actually been a decent vehicle then at least it’d have that. But no, it’s full of problems, recalls, and traps people inside and burns them to death.
The Ford Pinto was killed for less. It’s not like we don’t know how to make safe cars, yet somehow Tesla is allowed to get away with so much.
end of an error
Ha!
Reminds me of the NoFX album The War on Errorism
I love NoFX.
I’m putting that expression in my daily vocabulary
It was never allowed to drive on the road in Europe so I only ever saw it once at a car show. It was uglier up close. We were not allowed get close or touch it unlike all other cars on that show. My guess is that greasy fingers are not good for the body and hard to clean.
There’s two in the parking lot at my work. They’re an eyesore. One is even a founders edition or whatever it’s called. We have some really gullible smart/rich people
There’s a guy in my town that has one. I’ve never seen anyone but him in it.
There are a least five near where I live that I see. They all look ridiculous, but the ones that haven’t been wrapped look horrible. The stainless steal is definitely not stainless.
The only one that makes a little sense is owned by a sneaker shop and has a branded wrap. They use it to tow their showroom trailer to various events and using it for a billboard that tows seems reasonable.
Maybe I’m a bit obsessive but I can’t help but think of any tesla owner as a fascist.
Don’t care if you bought one before Musk went mask off.
These things are much worse in this way than the sedans - it’s a very public approval of musk, because they were his personal project or whatever.
I’d never buy anything from that shoe shop for this reason, and I don’t think I’m alone.
