# First Cybertruck sighting in the wild **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801 "2024-05-20T12:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/1 "2024-05-20T12:18:19Z")
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](https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/M577_Armored_Personnel_Carrier?file=M577_Armored_Personnel_Carrier.png). 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”. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/2 "2024-05-20T12:23:02Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/3 "2024-05-20T16:35:16Z")
I haven’t seen one in the wild yet (I’m in Europe), but judging from the pictures, they look like they’re straight out of Minecraft. I don’t drive and I really don’t care for cars but even I can appreciate elegantly designed cars when I see one. The Cybertruck… is not one of them. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/4 "2024-05-20T16:59:34Z")
I saw one parked at a Starbucks about a week ago. It’s truly the ugliest car I ever saw. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/5 "2024-05-20T17:19:16Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > I would feel stupid driving a car that looks like my fridge. But a mobile ice maker would occasionally come in handy. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/6 "2024-05-20T17:23:15Z")
I saw my first one in Little Rock outside of a small business this past Saturday. It’s a really, really ugly vehicle. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/7 "2024-05-20T17:37:59Z")
I was driving next to one on the highway last Friday in the east suburbs of Cleveland. Ugly as sin, and I can’t imagine how bad the visibility is with that window configuration! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/8 "2024-05-20T17:44:01Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Ugly as sin, and I can’t imagine how bad the visibility is with that window configuration! That’s what Full Self Driving—coming out in ~~2018~~ ~~2019~~ ~~2020~~ ~~2021~~ ~~2022~~ ~~2023~~ ~~2024~~ 2025(?)—is for. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/9 "2024-05-21T13:51:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/10 "2024-05-21T13:59:56Z")
Haha! Yeah, a tank from Battlezone! I saw one the other day in Northern NJ – not any prettier in person. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/11 "2024-05-21T14:05:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/12 "2024-05-21T14:10:48Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > and I can’t imagine how bad the visibility is with that window configuration! I drive into the early morning sun quite a bit. The inside of the front window REALLY needs to be clean. I can’t imagine trying to clean that glass. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/13 "2024-05-22T00:50:51Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > shop that often has unique vehicles parked in front of it, from vintage to donks Sorry, what’s a donk? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/14 "2024-05-22T01:10:01Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Sorry, what’s a donk? 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. [Wikipedia claims the proper term is “hi-riser”, and that to those in the hi-riser enthusiast community “donk” specifically means a 1971-76 Caprice or Impala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-riser). But to us normies the word has come to mean any car that’s been customized in this fashion. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cybertruck-sighting-in-the-wild/1001801/15 "2024-05-22T01:30:51Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > [Wikipedia claims the proper term is “hi-riser”, and that to those in the hi-riser enthusiast community “donk” specifically means a 1971-76 Caprice or Impala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-riser). But to us normies the word has come to mean any car that’s been customized in this fashion. Yes, this is correct, I was in a rush and meant to say “hoopty”.