At first glance it reminds me of a 1990s video game where they don't have the polygons and the graphic card horse power to display what a Pontiac Aztek would look like.
Yea I started watching the MKBHD video on it and turned it off at the part where he was kinda justifying how sophisticated the metal pressing process had to be because it has some elasticity or something and was hard to get consistent … the upshot of which was, as MKBHD admitted, that the panels were inconsistent and you were going to get random gaps in the plating. He kinda showed some examples, and to me, even over YouTube, it just felt cheap and I no longer understood how someone could feel ok spending the money.
The exoskeleton design didn't work, so they did the traditional frame with the fancy paneling on top, negating the potential cost savings actually making it more expensive.
"'last one produced" meaning never produced in elon world.
It's bait to get bros interested and impatient so they eventually cave and leap on one of the other models. Also, if they miraculously did get to the "cheap one" by the time that would happen, they'd raise cost of all models by $20k so it's still the cheapest or some other similar bullshit.
I love taking the wind out of Elon's sails because he is just a horrible and cringe person to an extreme degree, but I personally like the cybertruck aesthetically. It definitely different from anything we have seen in a truck, and I'm all for it. It's also basically a concept car that is somehow actually making it to market, and if it motivates the bigger auto makers to take more chances with their designs and ideas, I think it's great.
That said, its so ludicrously expensive, and so impractical/not advisable for all the reasons I would personally use a truck, because it's basically an SUV with a bed. It's like a Chevy Avalanche/Honda Ridgeline mashup. This thing is the ultimate pavement princess. If there's one thing I wouldn't be an early adopter for, it's something thats whole purpose is to get beat the fuck up.
I really can't fathom anyone seriously thinking this is good aesthetically without assuming they have a serious bias affecting their judgement in form of payment, cognitive deficiency, misplaced Musk sympathy, or otherwise.
Other auto makers are doing just fine with their designs overall, we don't need to include children's scribbles of a car when talking about where car designs should be headed.
I can understand liking the idea of the cyber truck but its aesthetic is so different from convention that I think people need to see it in person to decide if they like it.
There are so many things in it that are different in ways that might be better it is hard for me to imagine it selling well.
Don’t forget that you can’t haul much because the dumbass designers sloped the walls of your bed. You have plenty of room for friends though, if you could make any.
True tho. In some episodes they just solder random panes of metal together for a joke and those look better. Id rather drive the two sided car than this.
Plus you can't leave it parked anywhere. Anyone who sees it will want to recreate the famous steel ball test. Dude will spend a fortune at the tesla dealership getting his "bulletproof" windows replaced every week.
Honestly this just seems like the best way to have both sides of the relevant conversation hate you. The urbanists will hate you because you bought a Cybertruck which exemplifies all the problems with large cars in urban areas and car dependency in general, not to mention techbro dependency. And the truck people will hate you because you bought a liberal socialist soy boy electric truck instead of a noble, God-anointed, by your bootstraps diesel truck.
Wouldn't be surprised if someone comes back to the parking lot to see a line of alternating rednecks and railfans all taking turns keying their truck.
Really not what I meant. I mean you don't chase after happiness with purchases. You know how like people chase after happiness with alcohol, drugs, etc. These things won't make you happy, you have to find happiness in life at a more fundamental level.
It's OK to go into debt over a depreciating asset if you can afford to default on the loan, and it substantially improves your ability to make money. Businesses do it all the time. If a sole trader could work better with the cybertruck for some reason(I've got nothing) and could borrow off their house as collateral, that's a financially savvy business decision.
But a lot of people fall victim to predatory marketing. We need to recognize that it's not just them being dumb, they were manipulated, tricked and lied to by a powerful machine.
Doesn't look too bad in this light, it's the even daylight where the idea of it doesn't show. I think it's ugly but can look cool in certain light like this, the top section bright and the lower shadowed. Should have been a concept car cause of obvious reasons producing it at scale.
Part of me respects a design that can be so provocative. It shows how people care about design, and reminds me how boring and "nothing" a lot of the objects we interact with on a daily basis are.
This kind of post on here gets auto praise. There are specific buzz words/images/brands/rich people you can use on Lemmy to be praised how they’re saying people praise Elon.