I saw a matte black one yesterday. It looked pretty dinged up.
Interesting.
Wraps are not very physically durable. They’ll survive car washes, sun, snow, & salt just fine, but get torn up off-roading or if used on a real work truck with stuff thrown in and out of it.
Which suggests either this was an especially cheap-ass wrap job or this person actually uses their CT as a truck, not a fashion / Fascist statement.
They should be like armor for what they cost. I foolishly asked for an estimate on a Ford Escape and had to dispose of the boxer shorts I was wearing when I read it.
Like paint jobs, you can get the $29.95 loser-poseur special from Earl Scheib or the $5K one from a skillful body shop.
As I often say:
You don’t always get what you pay for, but you almost never get what you don’t pay for.
Earl Scheib. Now, there’s a name from the distant past. I’m trying to remember if was originally $19.95 or $29.95. That awfully nasally voice?That is seared in my memory.
The voice is indeed eternal. "I’m Earl Scheib and… ". I will die with that memory intact. Damned shame, but it’s true.
I was born in 1958; the lowest price I remember is 29.95. Might he have been advertising 19.95 before I remember? Sure. Although IIRC you’re at most 2 years older than me & maybe only 1.
I hope you remember Dr. Stienchroin the budget dentist with clinics all over Greater Los Angeles. Another ruthless self-promoter with a painful voice and pitifully amateur commercials. Whose memory time cannot erase. KTLA has a lot to answer for in my psyche. KTTV too.
For me it’s those old Carvel commercials that aired around Boston when I was a kid. I will never forget Fudgie The Whale sounding like it came through a torn speaker on a 13" TV
Long ago, I once worked in a business that had car dealerships as clients ( they were thieves… the lot of them ). One of the things that I learned, other than to stay out of car dealerships, was that the three worst colors for cars were red, white, and black.
Red always fades and pisses off cops, so you get lots of tickets and high insurance rates. Red cars draw cops faster than a “free coffee and donuts” sign at a Dunkin Donuts.
White always looks dirty; you can’t scrub it enough to make it look clean.
Black is similar, but every micro dent or scratch shows up to the naked eye (and it’s hot as hell in summer).
Whatever happened to Musk’s philosophy that “the best part is no part”? In my 2005 Toyota, the automatic door opener is No Part. Automakers already figured out how to do without that part. Why is it here now?
Muskrat logic.
It’s like muskrat love, only wackier and with more Captain and less Tennille. Now with even more ketamine!!
Vague memory of the Pentagon poised to buy a little fleet of Cyber trucks before something nixxed the deal.
State Department order for $400 million. Until word got out about the size of the deal and it got nixxed.
Not that there isn’t other grifting going on, but this particular one was curtailed.
Oh my! I’m picturing them in the modern equivalent of Iraq. Buttleproof my ass. I could see them littering the highways and roads, blown to bits by IEDs. If they even get out of the motorpool for lack of parts.
Though, to be fair, I could see them rolling around DC, going to the Pentagon, with their cute camo wraps looking all “badass”. “Who’s a tough truck? You are, so cute!”
I’d say the military could put the nation’s enemies in them, but that might be considered a war crime.
Just to keep the facts straight, or at least what is known about it today. It was originally a Biden era plan for the State Department to spend $480,000 on EVs. Somehow, in a public spreadsheet on expenditures, this was changed into $480 million for armored Teslas.
Once the story started to get out “Teslas” was changed to “EVs”.
This isn’t for armored combat vehicles or troop transports, but rather for the type of armored SUVs that look like normal cars, and are used to transport diplomats and such in dangerous locations. Spending $500,000 to investigate the feasibility of armored EVs seems reasonable.
Fishy as hell, and the kind of thing that 25 years ago the congressional investigation would have been months of CSPAN content. Now, trying to steal half a billion falls off the news cycle after a few days. If there’s ever a reckoning for anything that is happening, maybe we’ll get answers.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/g-s1-52618/lawmakers-question-400-million-dollar-tesla-plan
There’s so many billions more on corrupt Musk related contracts that half a billion seems like a rounding error.
That we’ve regressed more than a century in terms of public corruption is sickening.
Just for a change of pace, I actually had someone make a compliment about a cybertruck to me yesterday.
Well, sorta. Not about the truck itself, but it was painted some sort of iridescent shade and as you walked by the car it would seem to shift hues from blue to purple and shades in between. “That’s so pretty” she gushed.
I mean, a dumpster can be pretty if you paint it right.
It doesn’t make it smell any better.
The only custom Cybertruck I ever saw, I actually saw a week ago when I was driving my wife and daughter to the airport. It was done all in white. I mean, it was better than the standard “stainless-but-prone-to-rust steel” finish, but it didn’t suddenly make it look good. It sorta looked like a giant mobile toilet from a dystopian future.
I feel like a giant mobile toilet is the opposite of dystopian.
The idea of a mobile toilet is kind of cool, but only someone nefarious would make one that looks like that.
It’s like if you watch any sci-fi movie with space battles, you can probably tell at a glance who the bad guys are because they are careful to make ships that just scream “evil”.
Or maybe another way to put it is, when it comes to designing a toilet I don’t think “brutalism” should be the inspiration. Or at least I would rather prefer some other inspiration for a toilet. Like, “comfortable” or “won’t cut something delicate by sitting on it”.