Just saw my 2nd "wank panzer" (cyber truck) in the wild! It was parked in Santa Barbara, so I got to walk past it. Those things are huge! But really fucking ugly and stupid looking. As someone who has owned practical work trucks all their life, that thing is clearly for show. I felt kind of embarrassed for the owner.
Thinking about the many times I've had a #TeslaBro tell me 'that's impossible, the driver had to be doing it on purpose' in response to rock-solid evidence (e.g. video of the same car taken by a series of cameras over a distance of a mile or more) of runaway acceleration. #Tesla#Cybertruck https://mastodon.social/@Sadsquatch/112277620446734346
「 "CT [Cybertruck] windshield did not withstand a freak sudden hailstorm in Austin, rest of vehicle seems fine," writes Redditor xanderhud in r/cybertruck. "None of the other cars parked next to it had windshield damage but they had lots of dings in their body. Pretty disappointing, will let y’all know how much it costs to fix." 」
Trucks were once (not long ago) reasonably-sized and useful vehicles. This Tacoma is roughly the same size as my Bolt, has a bed as big as larger than a #Cybertruck. (Edited, because the Gen 1 Tacoma bed is actually several inches larger than the Cybertruck, lol).
'On another discussion board, Tesla Motors Club, a Cybertruck owner wrote a review so critical of Tesla’s supposedly highest-tech vehicle that the user was barred from the Cybertruck Owners’ Forum.'
As you know, I go to a ton of #carmeets. Well, #Cybertrucks have started showing up to a couple of morning meets the past two weekends.
And I noticed something interesting: car people ignored them. Nobody stopped their conversation to look. Nobody got on their knees to take photos. Nobody got their phones out to make reels. They just glanced at the truck, and went right back to talking with their pals. Absolutely zero interest.
It’s fascinating because the weirdest-looking, ostensibly most technologically interesting vehicle to have come out in decades shows up, and car enthusiasts treat it like it were a Kia Sedona. Every reviewer of the Cybertruck says they constantly get stopped by people wherever they go—well, apparently, this does not happen at car gatherings.
And it’s not about EVs, either. Bring a Rimac Nevera, and I guarantee you’ll get a crowd forming around your car. It’s the Cybertruck in particular.
I'm a car geek and have been to my share of car meets and what I think is going on is not a lack of interest but an intentional shunning of the CyberTruck owners because, if you showed any interest in one, your car geek friends would say: "WTF's the matter with you!!! 🤦♂️
Outside of the meet, I'd like to take a look at one, just to check it out, but at a meet, no way I'm going to show any interest in one. 🤷♂️
@drahardja I read someone refer to the #cybertruck as the "Incel Camino".
Feels like the car for people who try too hard to be cool, not unlike Musk himself.
@gabriel To be fair, I’m sure that the #Cybertruck and carry far more than that cart. Calling this a “heavy load” is like praising a pitcher for being able to hold a single shot of #vodka.
Spotted a #Cybertruck in town the other day. If you think that it looks strange in photographs, it is downright hideous in person.
It’s the perfect vehicle for people who grew up on a daily diet of Fox News FUD (fear, uncertainty, & doubt).
It is designed to look like an urban assault vehicle; to broadcast the message that none of us is safe and that we need to protect ourselves from our fellow citizens.
“Howdy neighbor!” has been replaced with “stay the fuck away from me.”
Welp. Saw this piece of shit at my doc’s office parking lot today. It’s not so clear but it looked like it had a brown hue to it. Looked old, dirty, and rusty. What a joke of a car. Probably broken down too. #cybertruck#tesla