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.”
You can tell if it’s not a real one, because it’s not very rusty
A rare alpha model. Must be worth a fortune now!
Good riddance, neo-Nazi made POS vehicle. Send the remaining ones to fucking Russia.
Pickup? More like a let down truck.
The worst thing? The cybertruck is going to forever be a symbol of this era. It’s ridiculous, but so is the age we live in. Fifty years from now, if someone wants to set a movie in the early 2020s, there will be a cybertruck somewhere in the background. It will forever remain an instant visual clue of the era. It’s like how in a sci fi film, if you want to quickly establish that you are not on Earth, you throw second Sun or gas giant into the sky. Just quick visual language saying where or when a setting is or isn’t.
They’ll have to build a cybertruck for the movie then, because the current ones aren’t going to exist 50 years from now. At least if they go through a car wash or something
Eh. There are still some old model Ts tootin’ around. The rarer they become the more valuable they are as antiques and collectibles. The Delorean was never really a very popular or particularly well-selling car, but there’s still plenty of those around. When they become rare, people put more effort into preserving them.
Word
It was always heading this way, I am surprised it lasted as long as it did.
I knew it was a flop well before it even came out for one key reason. Remember when the iMac/iPod/iPhone came out, it seemed like everyone else started trying to desperately copy Apple on those. Other businesses saw these and immediately thought “Oh crap we need to catch up now!”. Before iPhone even released Nokia was demoing a phone (that never came out) in which they rushed multi-touch onto Symbian OS just to not look behind.
Cybertruck came out and nobody else even remotely hinted at copying it. Every car company was like ‘Yep, you guys can just go for it, we won’t stop you.’.
I really don’t get it. If Tesla had made a pickup that looked and performed even the slightest bit like normal they would have sold millions of them.
Well of course the answer is musk has an ego and a complete lack of any talent. I suspect the board or starting to get sick of him.
Nearly impossible to get rid of him.
Tesla’s bylaws require 66.7% of all outstanding shares to get rid of him. Not just 66.7% of those who vote. Musk alone holds like 13% of common stock, too.
Index funds and such don’t typically vote to disturb things, but they’d have to here. It would have to be nearly unanimous among everyone other than Musk himself.
Literally could’ve built an electric equivalent to the Ford F-series with four motors and an ungodly amount of torque that nobody needs and sold them for 200k a piece. I’m not in the market for a pickup truck and probably never will be, but if I was and I was looking for electric, I’d buy that over the cyberdump.
Then if that sells, build a smaller one (a la Ford Ranger) with less power, less size, for less money. Like they did with S and 3, X and Y.
Remember when the shit nazi said the glass was bulletproof and while on stage proceeded to smash said glass with a golf club? This monstrosity should never have seen the light of day.
This makes me sad for two reasons, one of which might actually be posted in this thread, and that’s that it’s gonna make it harder to see idiots from a quarter mile away. The second of which is my own personal gripe, and that’s because I can’t sing the Cybertruck song anymore.
To the tune of the Spider-Man song: Cybertruck, Cybertruck, only driven by a massive fuck Cybertruck, Cybertruck, only driven by a stupid fuck
good. this meane i can reset my reality to a higher resolution again
A “truck” that can’t carry 4x8 sheet goods is useless.
That’s a stupid af metric
A truck being judged on carrying the most common size of plywood? Seems reasonable.
Why? It describes a scenario very simply, measurably, reproducibly. It just displeases rethnor.
Says the stupid af person.
If I need something that can’t carry big objects, I can take my wagon. Rear seats down, it’s got as much cargo space as the cybertruck if not a bit more. Of course, it can also go through a car wash or a pothole without setting me back a fortune. Hell, it can even go off road better than the cybertruck, despite not being a truck.
I also paid under 2k EUR for it, but that’s just because I’m an idiot who likes depreciated cars. A brand new one (Audi A6 Allroad) can be had for under 100k so that’s still about as much as a cybertruck, for something that can do everything the cyber truck does and a lot of things it can’t.
How can people find straight edges attractive is beyond me
That and those straight edges kill pedestrians, like they just cut right into them when you have that much force, it’s unavoidable.
Consider the average hood of a minivan. It’s a giant-ass vehicle. It could definitely kill people easily, but the hood is sloped, and the bumper is low, and all the corners are very rounded, making it much safer for pedestrians should a collision occur.
Yeah the whole car is a safety hazard
it’s different than all the other cars on the road, that is a big part of the appeal.
So are a lot of cars, for 100k or whatever that shit box costs you could buy or restore a lot of cars that look different that’s on the road
any specific examples of in production cars that are not just aerodynamically optimized boxes?
The dumbass jeep gladiators that are almost, but not quite as dumb as the the cybertruck.
I see so many of these on the road. First time I saw one I thought the graphics card in my brain had gone bad.
Too bad they were starting to grow on me.
I used to see them a fair amount here but haven’t seen any in months now.
And the rest of his cars. The intersection of people who believe in climate change and people who are far right nut jobs has to be vanishingly thin…
Rust in piss
That freakin’ car always looked like a car from Stunt Race FX on SNES.
