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4. It turns out to be one of the least reliable, worst made cars on the road at any price.

5. Still uglier than an NFT.

That’s not all they inflated.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-speeds-up-odometers-avoid-warranty-repairs-us-lawsuit-claims-2025-04-17/

i remember it was 5 years before the cybertruck came out, when he showed the video and pics of the design, it hasnt changed since.

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.

Same. Wouldnt take one if they paid me.

And supporting and encouraging the richest man in the world. Instead of making him richer, we need to bankrupt him, nationalize Space X and Starlink, and shut down anything else he was worming on.

Not my country.

Still not buying anything from that cunt though.

I’ll bet the build quality is higher on that thing.

Hey in Simpsons Hit and Run that's a decent mid game choice.

Given your opinions are on the reasonable side of truck owners

What advantage does a truck have over a panel van for work use?

Yes I'm European. Yes I actually want a truck for some unknown social reason. But every time I look at trucks I think the beds are either too small or I think my shit is going to get wet back there. An enclosed panel van has a bigger converted storage area.

A vehicle as a real tool? Blasphemy! We don't do that here in America.

Where the hell would we mount the dashboard nacho cheese dispenser and 42" plasma touch display in a standard truck?

Just get a hybrid Sienna, it comes with a free preinstalled cap on, AWD and sliding doors which shit on normal car/truck doors in terms of practical utility and capacity to do work.

I know this isn't exactly what you were asking for, but this looks promising for people that want what essentially is the anti-cybertruck:

Telo truck preview by JerryRigEverything

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?

We gave them an exception in Canada even though they dont meet safety requirements. Absolutely fucked.

It's the new Dacia pickup truck!

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