I saw the glass fail all over the new this morning, but WTF is that odd shaped, angular vehicle?
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That is One Ugly Truck?
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PWlakewood
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I'm betting the windshield has the tesla armor glass and not the side windows. Elon must have missed that meeting.
PWlakewood
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I'm having a hard time seeing who his target audience is with that design. I live in Washington state and as anyone that lives here will tell you we have a very large concentration of trucks here. There are so many pavement princess drivers that I don't see them buying something as radical as this departure from the normal red neck 100 year old design that is so prevalent in all brands of full size trucks. As a fan of tesla I can appreciate his future forward thinking design but I'm still on the fence.
I dunno, I wouldn't say I LOVE the design, but it's far better than any of the renders that were going around pre-reveal. I almost considered ordering one due to the super low prices, but can't justify getting another car that I'd only need a handful of times a year. I never thought it was ugly, I thought it looks sort of... unfinished, but it's growing on me.
That said, I have two friends that told me they preordered one, and supposedly they have somewhere around 200k preorders as of this morning (Does Tesla Already Have Over 200,000 Cybertruck Reservations?) so I guess enough people like it!
My take is that truck ought not be pretty...it's a utilitarian vehicle that should focus on payload, towing, off-road, ruggedness, and cheap jerry-rigging fixes. I'm not sure this vehicle does any of those things particularly well. Done well and the vehicle should tow like GM Duramax and have the low maintenance of a Toyota Tacoma. Although I will say it does have a Mad Max-dystopian- zombie apocalypse-"Black Mirror" look to it.
As for the window smash, I think it was rigged to smash to grab as much attention as possible...it only cost them two units of glass and look at all the buzz. There's no way they didn't test it ahead of time.
As for the window smash, I think it was rigged to smash to grab as much attention as possible...it only cost them two units of glass and look at all the buzz. There's no way they didn't test it ahead of time.
PWlakewood
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I completely agree about them knowing the glass would break. Negative or positive publicity is still publicly.
Obsoletion
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I have to agree on the glass. They spent A LOT of time showing how the glass wouldn’t break in the ball drop demos just to have both break too easily. It had to be a setup
ucmndd
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I think you're attributing too much organization and forethought to this company.
Design-wise it's an unmitigated disaster. I get they wanted "unconventional" and even "cyberpunk" but there's got to be a path to that other than "unfathomably fugly".
Beyond the design itself, the most obvious comparison I can draw is with a Hummer H2. Like the Hummer, it's the type of vehicle where you can't help but look at the occupant and laugh. Who could ever be taken seriously in such a machine?
i hate it, very disappointed and would much prefer an upscaled ModS in truck style. This will turn out to be a mistake.
ucmndd
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Time to clean house and hire the guy that made these renders to reboot the program.
https://ww.electrek.co/2019/04/24/tesla-pickup-truck-render/
https://ww.electrek.co/2019/04/24/tesla-pickup-truck-render/
quickstrike12
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I believe Elon said on Twitter when asked that they had thrown the steel ball at the same window twice before the show, and said it bounced right off. he sounded genuinely shocked when it broke. But he seemed to handle it well.
turns out that got him more free press than he could have hoped for.
turns out that got him more free press than he could have hoped for.
Yesterday: It's ugly as hell. No way will I buy one.
This morning: I placed an order for AWD.
This evening: Wife asks why I didn't get the long range performance instead.
Also 5 people in my office ordered it today. That's more excitement than model 3 had here.
This morning: I placed an order for AWD.
This evening: Wife asks why I didn't get the long range performance instead.
Also 5 people in my office ordered it today. That's more excitement than model 3 had here.
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