Is this really true ?!

[The T-man]

Is this the real concept Tesla tossed in favor of the actual final design?!
If so, I want some of whatever the $%&# the design team were smoking when that decision was made.

I always thought the 1 labeled "reality" looked like revision 3 out of 8 and somehow got pushed back as the final as a joke.
If they really produced a truck that looks like this Concept I'd have already placed an order...

Maybe the buyer demographics / market studies they did show more people actually like the folded cardboard design?

If so WTH is going on with the next wave of buyers, I mean can anyone say they would rather have the current design for anything other than a remake of an 80's apocalypse movie?

 

[MountainRatMat]

Not true, that "concept" you put in that picture is just random musings from the internet. It was not released by Tesla.

 

[Puddles]

My understanding is you couldn't stamp those curved panels from the SS Elon likes to make stuff out of.

 

[doghousePVD]

That “concept “ was a piece of nonsense promoted by Teslarati. Truly stupid design with huge anti-aero hood and tons of wasted volume. Plus major fugly.

 

[The T-man]

So you think the final design is better?....

 

[Jonathantuba]

So you think the final design is better?....

I don’t think there would be 800k orders if the first image had been the real Cybertruck - nothing exceptional

 

[S'toon]

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Is this the real concept Tesla tossed in favor of the actual final design?!

No.

 

[doghousePVD]

So you think the final design is better?....

Absolutely!

That piece of embarrassing incompetence was totally silly for an electric truck. It is as stupid as designing an ICE vehicle that looks like a horse and buggy.

 

[dazedNconfuzed]

So you think the final design is better?....

Yes.

Allegedly earlier design is questionably aerodynamic, with large brick-wall grill and vacuum-drag insets on doors between wheel bumps. Looks like a designer tasked with "what might the future hold?" with little/no actual manufacturing & aerodynamics design.

Yeah, the actual CT is fugly - in a "growing on me" way. Aerodynamics look better, and even if the design doesn't endure long-term it has finally broken some key stuck points in vehicle design, opening the way for subsequent & competing designs to get better performance with lower cost without holding to entrenched bad choices.

 

[CyberGus]

The top photo is what they designed, but then they rendered it in 8-bit

 

[Uncle Paul]

The original concept was discarded when it could not pass the "Steel Ball thrown at a side window by an Executive Test"

 

[EVortex]

So you think the final design is better?....

I don’t know about better, but it is so different it’s attracting a lot of people and the radical design is growing on many. I like some of the renderings of CT with light bar, grill guard, and other accessories they offset the plain flat panels.

 

[cucubits]

The top photo is what they designed, but then they rendered it in 8-bit

The top one seems overdesigned and just looks like any other newer trucks out there. Hard for me to admit but I actually like the design Tesla chose and hope they'll stick with it.

 

[dazedNconfuzed]

I’ve long told my wife I want to get a vehicle so ugly and hard/weird to drive she’ll never want to use it. FSD Cybertruck is perfect.

 

[Dan Detweiler]

At this point, why does this thread even exist? The top photo was proven to NOT be an official Tesla concept. This was discernable through a simple Google search BEFORE the Cybertruck reveal. Why bring it up now? You obviously don't like the Cybertruck design and are looking to circle the wagons and rally any sympathy for your beliefs.

That boat has sailed. Buy your Rivian or Bollinger and more power to you.

Dan

 

[outdoors]

At this point, why does this thread even exist?

For you to find it?

 

[sperkin]

Final design is awesome. Wish it was the size of the real Tesla concept shared at the semi event though. I want a pickup that can pickup a pickup truck.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

No. It's just a rendering, which is even worse than a concept.

 

[Twiglett]

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Is this the real concept Tesla tossed in favor of the actual final design?!
If so, I want some of whatever the $%&# the design team were smoking when that decision was made.

I always thought the 1 labeled "reality" looked like revision 3 out of 8 and somehow got pushed back as the final as a joke.
If they really produced a truck that looks like this Concept I'd have already placed an order...

Maybe the buyer demographics / market studies they did show more people actually like the folded cardboard design?

If so WTH is going on with the next wave of buyers, I mean can anyone say they would rather have the current design for anything other than a remake of an 80's apocalypse movie?

What on earth are you talking about?
Basic fact checking shows that zero of the published "concepts" came from Tesla - not one.
Sticking the word "concept" on something doesn't magically attach it to Tesla

 

[Twiglett]

The top photo is what they designed, but then they rendered it in 8-bit

nope - Tesla had no part in that, just some unknown "designer" trying to get his name out there.
After that attempt he probably needs to look at changing career