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Well, he said it was going to be different.

The #Cybertruck, Tesla’s all-new electric pickup truck, is here, and it can take a sledgehammer to the door while nary a dent. The all-electric pickup will offer up to 500 miles of range and start at $39,000. https://t.co/7a8YBicIkC
— WIRED (@WIRED) November 22, 2019

Starts at $40k, though. That's impressive.
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Originally Posted by DaFace:
This is just a concept car, but they'd sell a ton of these if they ever brought them to production. :-)

You could do it yourself, Ford sells the electric motor used in that truck as a crate motor now. Though I don't how the hell you convert the motor to electric, hope you know a good shop.
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Originally Posted by notorious:
The current Tesla concept truck is for the dude that tools around the city in his 1500 High Country and loses his shit if the pickup bed liner gets scratched from hauling his wife’s IKEA purchases.

Sounds perfect for me, I’m glad I ordered one a few years ago. Hopefully I’ll have it in 12 months or so.
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Originally Posted by Great Expectations:
Sounds perfect for me, I’m glad I ordered one a few years ago. Hopefully I’ll have it in 12 months or so.

Nice. When it comes in please give us a review. I hope Tesla does a 3/4ton work version.
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I imagine some folks think that entire photoshoot looks absolutely badass.

I also imagine those folks eat cucumbers with their buttholes.
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That's gayer than two dudes sharing a banana split
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So are we pencilling this thing as a massive flop yet or are we still waiting for reasons?
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Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch:
So are we pencilling this thing as a massive flop yet or are we still waiting for reasons?

The main reason will be the LBGTQ+ demo doesn't have a high enough income to finance it
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It looks dirty even when clean, but I guess that's part of what they're going for.
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Originally Posted by DaFace:
Starts at $40k, though. That's impressive.

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The stainless looks pretty bad there, and I see what people are saying about how it appears that the doors' lines don't really align with the body panels.

And I guess I still don't understand why they would go to market with this.

Is it some sort of an attempt to prove they can sell anything that says Tesla on it? Why not make it look attractive in some way? Why bring a truck to market that apparently has little off-road capability?

The cars demanded to be taken seriously, why not make a truck that does as well?
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Originally Posted by Eleazar:
The stainless looks pretty bad there, and I see what people are saying about how it appears that the doors' lines don't really align with the body panels.

And I guess I still don't understand why they would go to market with this.

Is it some sort of an attempt to prove they can sell anything that says Tesla on it? Why not make it look attractive in some way? Why bring a truck to market that apparently has little off-road capability?

The cars demanded to be taken seriously, why not make a truck that does as well?

Elbo wanted a vehicle that "looks like the future", his words. The vehicle needed regular truck functionality but he wanted it to represent a new industry and not just compete with the existing.

Honestly, this vehicle was never intended to be for regular truck buyers.
But a lot of truck owners don't need a truck for anything more than an ego boost so maybe the cyber truck makes a lot of sense.
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