Remember those million pre-orders Tesla allegedly had for the Cybertruck, according to CEO Elon Musk? It’s getting tougher and tougher for the company to explain where all of them went.
After putting around 50,000 Cybertrucks on the road, according to a recent recall filing, the company appears to be out of pre-orders and desperately looking to juice demand. Case in point: It’s now offering up to $10,000 off certain Cybertrucks it has in inventory.
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buying anything from Tesla is supporting the destruction of a country
Not my country.
Still not buying anything from that cunt though.
He’s working on it.
that’s the only compelling argument in favor of Tesla
Accelerationists belong alone in a room with an accelerant and a book of matches.
At this point, I literally wouldn’t drive one for free. My fury at Musk for the pointless destruction he’s done to this country overtook my curiosity for what it’s like to drive one of those huge, dumb, ugly vehicles with the glued-on panels.
I won’t drive the cybertruck or any of the other newer generation X’s and S’s since they all have yolks instead of steering wheels. A few years back I was rear-ended by a drunk driver on a highway. With about 1/2 second warning I suddenly found myself spinning 360 degrees across 3 lanes, and I was trying my best to steer out of it. I seriously doubt I would have been able to do that with a yoke. My hands likely would have missed as I tried to reposition them.
The yokes, like so many other “features” seem like nothing more than glitz that Musk demanded to differentiate Teslas from other cars. If an independent authority tests yokes vs. wheels in situations like that crash and finds the yokes are as good or better then I’d consider driving a car with one. But given Musk is now trying to kneecap things like NHTSA I’m most definitely not going to hold my breath.
Don’t they also lack fucking door handles to get out in an emergency quickly? Tesla and genuinely shit made cars, from start to finish.
I just hate the fact that liberals helped boost his wealth by buying his shit.
They do have emergency handles underneath some paneling, but the defacto way of opening is a (touch) button
It’s not underneath anything, you pull up behind the handle in the door. It’s mechanical, so you can always get out. Not that you’d want to get in one in the first place.
Liberals purchasing vehicles didn’t boost his wealth, stock speculation did that.
Let’s take this in a different order without changing ideas presented:
liberals […] buying his shit
That pushed correlation == causation by labeling environmentally concerned people and people who like a post-petrol system as liberals. Not an accurate overlap, and inherently a bad-faith comparison …
helped boost his wealth
… used to demonize ‘liberals’, whoever the fuck that villianized label means today
I’d assert no one on the planet said “I want Elon to be richer and so I will pay way more for this car” despite its - honestly when it had lidar - best positioning for one-day self-driving and raft of amazing features alongside those abjectly dumb decisions about door-handles and (now) frame concerns and other safety requirements.
I’d want to see some kind of justification to this accusation those mean librulz were conspiring primarily to make fElon richer .
I just hate the fact that
Claiming this as a fact is just beggaring the question. And that’s what I hate.
Same. Wouldnt take one if they paid me.
I’d take it for free and sell it at a big discount to one of his fanboys.
If someone offered me one for free or the option to pay them $10,000 for a Hummer EV, I’d have a new Hummer EV and a very unhappy partner.
I’d take it. Wouldn’t drive it, but if they want to pay me to store their dumpster…
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musk inflates numbers to match his ego.
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many, many, people canceled their preorder when they discovered he’s a fucking asshole.
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several orders of magnitude more got tired of waiting and canceled because it too long to come out (also the base price went up by 20k,)
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It turns out to be one of the least reliable, worst made cars on the road at any price.
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Still uglier than an NFT.
And it’s the only Tesla designed by Elon Musk. The fraud bought his way to fame.
I love how you can tell exactly how it went down just by looking at the thing. Elon wanted a ton of specific and basically contradictory things, which led to a ton of compromises being made and corners being cut just to get it “done,” and the result is a literally flaming pile of shit.
Kinda feel bad for the engineer that had to bring a toddler’s drawing of a car to life but also fuck man, have some dignity. I’m sure his resume is good enough to go somewhere else if Elon fired him for telling him to pound sand.
I have a colleague who knows someone working at Tesla. Apparently Musk would walk the floor and declare “this isn’t cyber enough, make it more cyber” like the awful client in every freelance webdev joke of the last 30 years.
Bu but he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else alive right now! I laughed so hard when he said that, I dislocated my jaw.
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Tesla couldn’t pay me to take possession of one of their vehicles, especially a Cybertruck.
i would take one for money… but i’d cover completely in anti-musk stuff.
also, no autopilot
Just sell to the UK or Europe. What’s that? It doesn’t meet road safety standard in the UK or Europe, well then guess someone fucked up
This pile of crap is completely impossible to bring to market in any country with reasonable consumer protections and road safety standards. Maybe they could export them to Russia?
One is already on the front lines in Ukraine. On the Russian side, naturally.
Even the Russians will probably prefer to attack riding donkeys.
We gave them an exception in Canada even though they dont meet safety requirements. Absolutely fucked.
Hey in Simpsons Hit and Run that’s a decent mid game choice.
I’ll bet the build quality is higher on that thing.
It’s getting tougher and tougher for the company to explain where all of them went.
The price was the big one. It delivered at twice the initially advertised price. Took it from being very competitive with ICE trucks to costing much, much more.
Took it from being very competitive with ICE trucks to costing much, much more.
If you figure that most pickup trucks in 2025 aren’t really being used in the role that historically they held: inexpensive, no-frills utility vehicles — but as status symbols, expensive, large, luxurious vehicles — that’s not necessarily bonkers. In fact, it’s possible to make a vehicle more-desirable by making the price rise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.
The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a status symbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. A product may be a Veblen good because it is a positional good, something few others can own.
Veblen goods such as luxury cars are considered desirable consumer products for conspicuous consumption because of, rather than despite, their high prices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/ausbav/average_pickup_truck_prices_went_up_61_in_the/
Average pickup truck prices went up 61% in the last 10 years, far outpacing the market as a whole (up 28%) (paywall less article in comments)
I don’t know if I’d normally cite wolfstreet.com, but they’ve helpfully graphed the price of a new Ford F-150 versus a Camry over the years:
The pickup truck is primarily selling to a different market segment than it once did. If the reason you buy a vehicle is to demonstrate to others who see you that you can afford to buy the vehicle…then having a higher price permits for the thing to be an even more potent demonstration.
The announced price was better than most EVs. I’m not interested in a truck but was tempted to preorder for the announced price and features. Now, years later, no effing way would I have followed through
Excellent.
Don’t worry, papa Elon will pull some strings to get the government to take these turkeys off his hands.
Efficiency!
Tesla earnings call in 3 days!
It’s the new Dacia pickup truck!
2025 model looks good to me. I need something I can do light towing with.
Tesla has started putting up to $10,000 on the hood of Cybertrucks.
Well that’s nice. Is this $10,000 up for grabs, or do you need to buy the truck first? Is it in one of those silver suitcases?
