Wow. This thread is going to be one of the most commented of the year.
Tesla has been really bold with the design, I love it, and I hope Tesla will be rewarded for it.
Tesla Cybertruck
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#262A lot of people are talking about how it looks awesome. I guess they've done their market research to target the audience that wants this. It's looks like 1980s sci-fi threw up and I think it looks terrible for appealing to most of the general population.
They'll probably make their money off of it (with tax subsidies, which is still keeping most of Musk's enterprises afloat .. so we're all paying for it, sadly), but it's because they target the demographic clearly represented in a lot of these comments.
Personally, I think the design looks awful and terrible. I don't even really like the current Tesla with their terrible UI, stupid "touch-screen-everything" and lack of tactile buttons. But whatever, I'm sure it will sell.
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#263Yeah, a lot of people talking about how ugly it is. But that's exactly what a pick-up has always been. A big ugly thing with a bed in the back and a lot of utility most people didn't even use. Some models over the years have looked decent. Many have (Ford especially) have been dog ugly. I could see this thing taking off, though not sure how rural truck owners would take to electric. Edit: On second thought, rural tru…
I have a family member who has a modified Nissan truck, that is currently getting 9 mpg and driving him crazy because of it (it was a whopping 13 mpg stock). He's stupidly spending a fortune in gas. There is certainly going to be a huge market for electric trucks. I don't know if this is one of the winners, it's a super odd design choice so it's impossible to tell how the market will respond ahead of time, however so…
Right. People will spend 50K on a truck because it's a major part of their livelihood and then the gas will be a big burden. This could help a lot in those cases.
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#264I appreciate Tesla for taking the pick up truck use cases and building something from scratch. This is the first pick up truck I’ve ever thought to myself “makes sense and I want it.” The ICE trucks have needy engines and most of the time the power is unused. The air suspension seems like a natural fit and I’m surprised it’s not already common place. I would love to take the Cybertruck off-roading. I’m also excited t…
>The air suspension seems like a natural fit and I’m surprised it’s not already common place.
IIRC this was a thing on land rovers back in the day, and was notoriously unreliable. It's a great idea in theory, but much more difficult to get right than a bunch of steel springs.
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#265In fashion nothing is new and everything is born again. I love this..
Elon prefaced it best by stating the inspiration was early 007. How amazing a large-scale mfg can do such a thing. How dare Ford, Cadillac, etc waver from their aesthetic. It's possible for Elon and he does it.
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#266I know a lot of folks are walking away from the puzzling aesthetic but I think that’s the point. Existing Tesla owners with a taste for existing design cues won’t push Tesla sales any further. They’ve got to expand the demographic and this design has a chance to do this. Think of all the wrangler, hummer, truck buyers who want a militaristic, rough, unpolished steel look and this is that flavor taken to an extreme. O…
It looks like a gonzo ball. I'm gonna take some time to come round to this, if I ever do.
> gonzo ball
What do those words mean? Google Image Search isn't helping.
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#267Does the US not have pedestrian safety standards? An all metal front grill must be horrible on any safety tests. I can only assume this is a joke and in a few hours Elon will do a "one more thing" before showing the real Tesla Pickup. This take on a pickup looks like some engineer accidentally left their Halo fan-art on the shared CAD file server.
Don't be ridiculous. The US has no pedestrian safety standards whatsoever. In a sane world, the NHTSA would have outlawed bull bars and required trucks to have sideguards.
I had to look this up because i figured you must be talking out of your ass, there had to be some pedestrian safety standards.
but nope, apparently not. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/12/07/while-other-countries...
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#268A lot of people are talking about how it looks awesome. I guess they've done their market research to target the audience that wants this. It's looks like 1980s sci-fi threw up and I think it looks terrible for appealing to most of the general population. They'll probably make their money off of it (with tax subsidies, which is still keeping most of Musk's enterprises afloat .. so we're all paying for it, sadly), but…
i had to double back and check where i came from, as i said out loud to myself “wait, is this a joke?”.
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#269I bet one of the key factors for this thing to be on the road safely was the development of some kind of unbreakable glass for the huge front window, so they "had to" make this new type of resistant glass. Some "yes man" at the upper management level must've decided to skip constrained material testing (Glass dissipates energy much differently when it is in a frame rather than just loose... pay close attention at the…
Yep. Also they were constantly tightening the screws holding down the glass in the demo which I though stood out.
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#270Is this for real? That rear slope looks like it will kill headroom in the back.
Looks like a concept car (truck).