Cybertruck unveil (CYBRTRK)

[J0hn.r]

You can see the screen in operation here

 

[Artiste]

Elon did look rather silly standing in front of a truck with two smashed windows

 

[bjbrown]

This is what I imagined I would be driving in 1999 when I was a kid in 1979. I love it. Tried to put my £100 down but the web site is not working. A truck without the environmental impact, you have to love Tesla.

 

[MaDProFF]

its awful

 

[SirRob]

It's perhaps the worst looking thing I've ever seen. I made some concessions when getting a Model 3 as it's not particularly to my taste, but this thing is hideous. The fact people are able to get excited about it genuinely boggles my mind.

 

[KennethS]

This is what I imagined I would be driving in 1999 when I was a kid in 1979. I love it. Tried to put my £100 down but the web site is not working. A truck without the environmental impact, you have to love Tesla.

I was able to put my £100 down and got a reservation number.

 

[IanB]

OMG, it is so ugly!!!!!! Just like they couldn't be arsed

I can imagine parking this outside my dads house in Liverpool and all the kids throwing bricks at it trying to break the windows, just to see if they can, or maybe shooting at it.

 

[Keeper]

Not sure if anyone else noticed or seen, but the new UI on the screen in the truck looks completely different!

Might be the next big update to all cars - the quick access buttons are down the side (not the bottom) and maps are 3D

Customisable UI

 

[Jason71]

They laughed at the stainless steel Delorean and that's a classic now.
I mean the company went bankrupt and the founder should have ended up in prison but the car is cool these days.
all we need now is a Back to the Future reboot and it's an instant classic. "You built a time machine? Out of a CybrTrk!!" I can see it now

 

[MaDProFF]

It's perhaps the worst looking thing I've ever seen. I made some concessions when getting a Model 3 as it's not particularly to my taste, but this thing is hideous. The fact people are able to get excited about it genuinely boggles my mind.

I am excited about the concept, just not the look. when you are driving it, you are not looking at it, but you do see other peoples faces gurning at you thinking wtf

 

[Dejavus]

Am def pre-ordering one, dunno what for but who cares

 

[elecTED]

Elon did look rather silly standing in front of a truck with two smashed windows

Text book example of demo failure - doing something for the first time with a live audience.

 

[Roy W.]

The design is certainly ... strange. It looks like something that was designed in the 1980s intending to look futuristic. I’m sure it’ll be a big hit in the States. Elon needs to design an add-on for the back end for coal rolling

 

[davidmc]

Unilever have ordered a load to deliver their famous toast spread

 

[JCremonini]

I wasn’t keeping tabs with this but saw it on the news this morning. I assumed the “truck” was simply some elaborate mockup purely to demonstrate the windows but , Jesus, it’s actually the real thing.

Cant believe anyone signed that off.

 

[Cogarch]

You can see the screen in operation here

Seeing it operating in the flesh helps -- the design on its own looks glib and facile, but the fact that engineers have made it into a functioning machine goes some way to overcoming that perception.

 

[DanThor]

I feel like I don't want this to sell as it's horrible from the front however I think this will sell.

People seem to have Tesla blindness (where they forgive Tesla for faults when they'd slate any other manufacturer for the same faults). If Ford, BMW or any other brought something like this to market everyone would be calling it ridiculous.

Anyone else feel the same?

 

[Yev000]

I can see it being popular in places with a lot of offroading. I bet they are not planning to sell may as they don't have the capacity with the Model 3 and Y.

One thing that does make me wonder is the crumple zones, if you can hit it with a hammer and not dent it what happens in a crash? Does the bonnet shear off and decapitate you? Maybe it's designed to be able to take a dear to the face then back up to pick it of for dinner?

I have to say I don't hate the look... Yes it's bonkers, but that was kind of the point. It's not the soul-destroying cabin design like what you get with a Fiat Multipla or Nissan Cube - dreery box on wheels for those who gave up on owning nice things in life.

And it looks much nicer in motion than just standing still.

Of course completely impractical in UK

 

[LukeT]

Wonder what that sheet steel that'll take a sledgehammer blow weighs? Look like some sustainability questions there, not that there aren't with any decision to buy a truck.

 

[IanB]

People remember the story of the emporers new clothes, reminds me that. Erm, yes, it lovely Elon, well erm done, you da man!!!!