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.
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.
Liberals purchasing vehicles didn’t boost his wealth, stock speculation did that.
That speculation was fueled by liberals buying Teslas.
Let’s take this in a different order without changing ideas presented:
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 …
… 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 .
Claiming this as a fact is just beggaring the question. And that’s what I hate.
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.
I don’t even think I’d take a Freebie unless it was to immediately sell for cash.
They’re dangerous, expensive to own (iphone repair cost model applied to a fuckin car) and you look like you support this sort of thing, which is bad look.
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…
If I got one for free I’d spend an afternoon dismantling it with a crowbar separating the steel from the aluminum to sell it for scrap, and I’d be the first person to make a profit from a cyber truck.