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We saw two within 10 minutes last weekend on the 405 (imagine that). My wife thought they didn't look that "big". I thought the opposite. I don't completely understand the idea of the post-apocalyptic electric car. The tech is interesting, the execution is not. I'm afraid of anyone that is attracted to that car. To be fair, they do look better in matte black.
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Where’s the money/credit/debt financing in that…? |
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I really like the way the Cyber truck looks!
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I am 5'9" on a good day and there are many trucks where I live where I am shorter than the hood. Its craaaazy. And I'm not anti truck. I would love a Ford Maverick sized Toyota or Honda, I just hate unnecessarily large vehicles. |
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And you think that this first-gen CyberTruck will be made in numbers even close to producing a profit? (not exactly what you said, but I digress), lol. It's clearly a "home run" only at what it was supposed to do in terms of their future market. I merely suggested a theory about that. Year one for this engineered sight-gag is what it is! |
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There have been cultural signifiers for as long as there's been mass culture, I guess: from stuff as inexpensive as Ché t-shirts and Bukowski books scattered on the coffee table to things as expensive as Cybertrucks and beach houses in Malibu (I'll take one of those, thanks).
Anyway, I saw another one today. It looked menacing—like it would roll coal if it could—which, I assume, is part of what the owner wants to signify. Still not my cuppa, but to each their own. |
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I saw one for the first time today. I'd like to think I noticed it because of this thread...but I gotta agree, it was so conspicuously ugly -- or, at least, unfinished? like a junior high school metal shop project that was out for a beta test before it had been completed -- that I probably would have noticed it anyway.
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Whether it's ugly or not isn't so much the point, since this first-gen model will be made in only small numbers relative to amortizing costs of development, so all will get sold. I consider this first version to likely have collector value over the long haul. It's prodigious performance numbers lend solid credibility to a long-overdue (at least in the USA) aero-truck concept. I think it's great that the time-honored tall grill of burly trucks may finally give way to the safer and more-efficient Dustbuster profile that already has long prevailed in other markets. It should make Americans look a little bit smarter to the rest of the world. Last edited by dddd; 03-02-2024 at 03:51 PM. |
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Not really my cup-O-tea but if it floats your boat have fun.
If I wanted an electric truck I would rather recycle an older vehicle with an Ecrate motor like this 1978 Ford pickup with a Mustang Mach-E GT electric crate motor. Available for purchase from Ford Performance Parts for (a year or two ago) $3,900. W. |
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My neighbor just bought one of these, and seeing as this SF
Bay real estate at $1800+/sq.ft., he’s converted his garage into living space. So he parks the thing on the street. What an eyesore. It just looks comical. And huge. And SHINY. And it already is a mess smudges and schumtz. |
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