The Cybertruck, a once massively hyped vehicle
It was never ‘massively’ hyped…no one I know thought this thing looked cool, would actually be usable as a truck or be worth the money they asked for it…hundreds of contractors, didn’t give two shots about this…media hyped it, nothing more. Sure it was talked about, but mostly how stupid it looks. that’s not hype.
“hype” is literally media attention
hype 1) : publicity especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind all the hype before the boxing matchMerriam Webster
Well looky here Merriam , thanks for the info check
Back before people knew all that much about it, back when Elon Musk was the guy who made Tesla and SpaceX and this super smart guy (as opposed to being the guy who bought them and then fucked up the engineering), I knew some people who were excited about it. It was supposed to be a working truck but electric, bring all the better-than-other-cars stuff that the Roadster and Model S had, it was supposed to have solar panels and electrical outlets and super-strong construction so you could use it to survive the zombie apocalypse.
I think that was before the inflection point, back when the genuine success Tesla had had made Musk’s personal brand of bullshit believable. I remember when people started getting a good look at all the concept and actual prototypes, that made it look like a dumpster without the storage space, was when the shine came off the rose. But I definitely do remember people who were excited about it back in the beginning.
I also remember seeing articles about how the design was meant to be very simple because it was going to be cost effective, and that they were experimenting with a manufacturing technique that would work better on Mars
Yea nope.
Instead now Slate Auto seems to be going for the cost effective minimalistic truck
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/slate-auto-crosses-100000-refundable-reservations-in-two-weeks/
While Hyundai has put out some actual retro futuristic models
https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/heritage/heritage-series-grandeur
https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/heritage/heritage-series-pony
Yeah. In retrospect, it’s easy to pick out what stuff is just Elon Musk making up bullshit because it would be awesome. And, with the cybertruck, he finally got to inject that into the engineering process as a dominant factor as he’d been trying to do for so long with the cars. And look at the result…
I like the Slate. Maybe a touch longer in the hood than I’d like. But nice none the less.
Hyundai is finally starting to win me over, I’ve so long overlooked them from their old reputation, but they’ve been putting out some good cars for a bit now.
The Cybertruck has always been a vehicle designed by a childish mind for equally puerile customers. Now it’s also a strong indicator that you might be a bit of a Nazi if you own one.
So yeah, I don’t expect it to sell too well, as most motorists are adults who tend to dislike Nazis, or would prefer it if they didn’t have to worry constantly about their vehicle being defaced by non-Nazi adults.
Made by and for douchebags. Honestly if they actually wanted to make a little truck that was an EV I would have been all over it. Just something small to haul some dirt or lumber for home projects. I don’t want a giant f150, I want some danger ranger size or smaller for light projects. I think that could have been very popular.
Heard about the Slate Truck?
Telo truck looks promising and has some ex original Tesla talent.
If it turns out to be real, that would be the easiest buy I’ve ever had with a car. But with a design supposedly about practicality, why do they have to go with the iPad car controls? Hopefully that trend dies out soon and we can have buttons again.
I can’t see myself spending money on anything beyond a smartphone with a touchscreen for everything, and seeing it in this makes me more skeptical about the product as a whole.
Touchscreen controls so if/when something goes wrong with the software that controls it, Only they can service it instead of the owner of the vehicle.
Yeah, that is the worst thing about modern cars. They just produced their first fully drivable prototype, so I am cautiously optimistic.
I’ve seen fundraisers where they let people pay a few bucks to smash a scrap car with a sledge for a few minutes. Maybe they can get a little return by doing that
I’ll take off them off your hands Elon. $20 for the lot.
when they drop to like $10k maybe.
You value yourself at negative 10k? If they paid me 100m, I would at least think about it before declining to buy one.
I’ll walk before I ride in a Nazi truck.
Pff. If they pay me 100m to get one, i’d take the money, buy the car, and sell the car for part. It’s made of stainless steel, people, that gonna worth some money in the scrapyard.
For 100m you probably could just build a new chassis around it that doesn’t look like a 5 year old drew it
That would cost more and it’s much more sensible to buy a car sized for human.
I think my number is only as high as it would take for me to build and pay off a place to hide it in and forget about it.
It’s all computer!
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