There’s just no way to prepare yourself for how hideous the thing is when you see it up close. I’m all for electric cars, and you drive what you drive, but the dingy metal and stupid shape makes it look like the bastard love child of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz and a Transformer made by somebody who had used several fine vintages of methamphetamine that day. And people pay what, almost 200K, for this monstrosity?
Really they are awful in photos but there’s no way to really tell how ugly that thing is up close.
Awful. The design is from a 2nd grader just drawing in crayon.
We have one diagonal from our house. It had no license plate for a couple months. One day, it had an out of state license plate. (Cheaper cost state). I have to figure out how to report it as a “tax cheat”.
Same! Thought the online pics were OK, but when faced with one up close at Lowe’s, Jesus fucking Christ. It’s hard to get a handle on what you’re saying without getting up close and personal.
Guy’s second trip, we loaded the pathetic “bed” down and he still had to come for a third round. Y’all, I’ve loaded more mulch in passenger cars. I’ve owned passenger cars with more capacity. You could put 20 bags of mulch in my Mitsubishi Spyder! (With the top down to load.)
They’re bigger up close, and so very stupid looking. Again, I was OK with the pics, thought they were kinda cool. Got eyes on one, JFC, what an abomination before God.
It’s like a toenail clipper on wheels, someone said, and that’s so apt.
What’s truly wild is there are maybe a half dozen in my fairly small tourist trap town. One got traded into the local Cadillac dealership and was listed at around 120k and despite the Facebook post getting heavily dunked on universally, it was sold within the week. And I see the dude shows up to a little dive bar/pool hall I frequent occasionally. Every single time I’m there so it’s that monstrosity leading me to believe he’s there every night. I’m guessing dude is so lonely he thinks the truck is a substitute for a personality. I actually would feel bad for him if I wasn’t sure his entire goal in life is to upset other people.
What gets me every time is how comically large the windshield wiper is.
They’re so flashy, ugly, and obviously gets negative attention due to political reasons, so I always assume there’s something wrong (crazy) with the owner for willingly driving something like that.
Honestly every generation has had their ugly vehicle. And most car manufacturers have a couple. Like that one truck that could convert into an SUV but nobody’s ever seen one converted into an SUV and they just drive them as trucks and they’re ugly AF? I think it’s a Chevrolet.
What shocks me the most about the Cybertruck is how big it is. I mean, it IS a working truck, supposedly — I don’t think a single Cybertruck is being used as a working truck anywhere. But that’s the design. They’re big.
They’re ugly, but they do have a certain attractive quality about them. The default champagne colour is gaudy. I’ve seen them in black and blue and thought, okay, that’s not so bad.
My wife hates them in any colour though. And I’m not a fan, I just don’t think they’re as ugly as the default colour.
I do want to drive one, though. Not own one — I wanna see how they drive and handle. I hear they’re pretty nice to drive.
At some point there will be another ugly vehicle and we’ll stop being so weirded out by the Cybertruck. Maybe. I dunno. It is a bizarre shape. I think those little oversized go-karts with the three wheels you see everywhere are actually at least as weird as the Cybertruck, they just happen to look cool. But they are weird.
Just make sure you leave the windows down on your test drive.
That way if you crash and burn, you’ll still be able to escape.
GenX had the Delorean. :)
The part aboit wanting to give the cybertruck a test drive made me think of my friend’s hybrid EV. My friend drives a Honda Clarity and I hella wanna take it for a spin myself because the way he drives makes it seem like the vehicle has no turn radius and I can’t tell if it’s just how he drives or the car really struggles to make a 3 point turn.
Yeah, every one, the side panels aren’t smooth (which is really obvious how reflective they are), the truck has serious design flaws such as a lack of waterproofing, trim panels that are glued on and fall off over time, and an aluminum chassis, which is known to fail when towing. If they had made a steel chassis and an aluminum body, it would have been less horrid, but this vehicle is strong where it doesn’t need to be strong and weak where it absolutely needs to be strong.
And that’s not counting the cost or the clout for having one.
Damn bones, i forget, you Canadian? Here in SE merka they are about 1 spotting an outing and a good deal of businesses use them as rolling billboards. Fantastic way to ensure I’ll never patronize your establishment. I really appreciate it. One of those rhomboids, painted maggot red, lives down the road. Gadsen Flag license plate and all. Thumbs downing them feels so good.
How could you forget? :)
They’re not very practical in our winters for one thing, and I think we’re just not into spending that much money on cars in general. Maybe if I was in Toronto in the wealthy neighbourhoods I’d see them more.
It’s mind boggling how terrible they look. I’ve seen photos of people putting vinyl wraps on them to make them look like other trucks and it’s shocking that it’s an improvement.
They’re astoundingly ugly cars almost exclusively driven by assholes.
I saw one other one with a black wrap that still looked dumb but at least was slightly less monstrous looking. I half expected the driver of the regular colour one to be cosplaying as a character from Mad Max, because that’s where it looks like it belongs.
There are a lot around here and even the black wrap looks awful in my opinion.
I lothe Musk and all his idiocy and politics etc. so even if I was given one I would sell it or destroy it. I refuse to have something like that.
With that said I do think the original intent of the design if they had actually made it work would have made the ugly mess worth it for a trade off. It was supposed to be a single exoskeleton that doubled as both panels and the frame and saved weight, space, manufacturing simplicity, and provided for letting you get the benefit of stainless steel. I doubt it would have been any better at towing but at least steel has a better failure mode than aluminum for that use.
However instead of reduced weight it is a crazy increase in weight with that for external panels instead of being a frame. Such a total mess that I have no clue why anyone buys them as they are exclusively downsides compared to options like the Ford Lightning etc. which still have a lot of trade offs due to the electric range issues when towing but at least it is expected and fundamental to the tech. Not the push of some idiot that wants us living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
It’s like they were made to be defaced.
If they were all black I think they could be ignored, but the silver makes it so heinous.
I have seen both bare metal and one painted black. The black doesn’t help because the body shape is just to awful to be ignored.
Same here. We have one guy in the area that owns one. Saw it the other day painted matte black. Fucking hideous.
If he had the decency to write all over it with chalk it would be one thing but no
On one hand I’m happy they aren’t for sale here. But on the other hand I am perversely curious about seeing the abomination up close.
It truly is a magical experience when you first see one in person. Despite how they look when photographed, somehow cameras make them appear less absurd than they actually are. It’s just so large, so ridiculous, it doesn’t seem like it should be real—and yet it is. The first time I saw one in a parking lot, I genuinely couldn’t stop laughing and had to reign it in, despite seeing them online a hundred times before then.
That was my reaction, pure mirth. Like how ridiculous does someone look behind the wheel of that thing.
I saw one of the silver ones yesterday (I saw one with a black wrap on it at a distance once), and there’s no preparing yourself from pictures how damned ugly it is.
The pewter or whatever that brown color is called it even worse.
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