Yesterday I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild (Atlanta area). It was parked overnight at a local tinting/painting/customization shop that often has unique vehicles parked in front of it, from vintage to donks to kaleidoscopic weed trucks.
My impressions:
Side view: not too bad. Door handle area covered with visible fingerprint grease.
Front view: stupid
Back view: extremely stupid
Overall impression: As the owner of a stainless steel fridge, I don’t think I could pay for a car that looks like a stainless steel fridge. Reasons:
The fingerprint oil stains are impossible to keep up with.
I would feel stupid driving a car that looks like my fridge.
I think there is actual market potential in the moon-car aesthetic as a novelty car, but I don’t find this vehicle to be a compelling avatar of the form. It needs more ornamental surface angling, something along the lines of this.
In short, this experience has decreased the likelihood of me buying a Cybertruck from “quite unlikely at market prices” to “comically remote even at a deep discount”.
Travelling back from Amarillo to home this past week, I saw two in the same day! One was parked at the Clines Corners, NM tourist/rest stop, while the other zipped past me on St. Francis Drive in Santa Fe!
Tripler
My impressions: Not only are they ugly, but they’re migratory too!
I saw three of them on a car transporter yesterday on I-84 in Connecticut, along with several normal cars. I didn’t know what is was until I googled it, then found this thread. Hideously ugly, like a tank from a 1970s video game.
Saw one parked outside a Petsmart a couple weeks ago, then saw one driving in my neighborhoor later the same day. Not sure if it was the same car or not. But apparently I may have a Cybertrucked neighbor.
It’s kind of the opposite of a low rider – a car, usually an older American sedan, that’s been modified with oversized wheels so that it rides much higher than normal.
