# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 320
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6386 "2023-08-24T10:23:04Z")
“If Lego can do it, we should be able to as well.” I don’t necessarily disagree with him (though I don’t really know anything practical about the materials involved), but it does tell you that what was delivered to him was not pleasing. > **[Elon Musk says 'if LEGO can do it, so can we' about Cybertruck quality in...](https://electrek.co/2023/08/23/elon-musk-lego-cybertruck-quality-leaked-tesla-email/)** > > In a leaked email to Tesla employees, Elon Musk highlighted the need for high standards of quality and “single-digit micron”... ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6387 "2023-08-24T10:53:30Z")
One _would_ expect a company that makes five-ton electrical fires on wheels to have the same eye for precision as a company that makes plastic building blocks for children, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6388 "2023-08-24T11:30:59Z")
I wonder how long those micron tolerances will last after someone loads 1,600 pounds of concrete mix into the bed. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6389 "2023-08-24T11:49:36Z")
No Tesla truck will ever carry more than a tent. I said this before: That thing is a child’s idea of what a cool truck would look like. Much like Trump’s aesthetic taste is a trailer park’s idea of what a rich person’s house looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6390 "2023-08-24T12:00:26Z")
How do you even access the bed of the truck? Can you put tall stuff in it? [https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/vxKk04/s1/tesla-cybertruck-vs-ford-f-250-super-duty-size-comparison.webp](https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/vxKk04/s1/tesla-cybertruck-vs-ford-f-250-super-duty-size-comparison.webp) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6391 "2023-08-24T12:40:50Z")
That’s why it irritates me so much. It’s not a truck. Not by any definition I’d ever use. ETA: Hell, it’s not even as useful as an El Camino ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6392 "2023-08-24T13:53:07Z")
Or a [Subaru Brat](https://achewood.com/2003/12/01/title.html). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6393 "2023-08-24T14:13:24Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > “If Lego can do it, we should be able to as well.” So, he’s going to give all his employees [extra holidays](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/30/lego-gives-its-20000-employees-three-days-extra-holiday-after-profits-rise-140) when the company performs well? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6394 "2023-08-24T14:32:47Z")
When I was in Cub Scouts, we used to do a thing each year called the [Pinewood Derby](https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/how-to-build-the-fastest-pinewood-derby-car/). You had to take a block of wood and turn it into a car (by cutting and painting it, and then nailing wheels on it). You’d then race it against other cars by rolling it down a ramp. The cybertruck looks like what would happen if you woke up the morning of the contest and realize you’d forgotten to make your car and only had an hour to finish. It’s as much a truck as my Chevy Spark is a truck. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6395 "2023-08-24T14:51:04Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Or a [Subaru Brat](https://achewood.com/2003/12/01/title.html). Hey, don’t knock the Brat - it was perfectly fine at what it did. Back in Israel in the 80s-90s, every electrician and plumber in the country had one of these: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Subaru_Brat_in_Tel_Aviv.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Subaru_Brat_in_Tel_Aviv.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6396 "2023-08-24T14:52:24Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Back in Israel in the 80s-90s, every electrician and plumber in the country had one of these: That Johnnie Walker logo just adds so much class to it. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6397 "2023-08-24T15:11:47Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Hey, don’t knock the Brat Ah, fond memories of sitting in the back of a Brat while the driver was four-wheeling. Those were great. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6398 "2023-08-24T15:28:15Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Ah, fond memories of sitting in the back of a Brat while the driver was four-wheeling. Those were great. Something I heard at the time was that the seats were added in the bed so that the Brat could be imported as a car rather than a truck. I guess a truck was defined as having two-seats and a car having four? It allowed them to avoid whatever extra taxes/tariffs applied to imported trucks. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6399 "2023-08-24T15:54:36Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > Something I heard at the time was that the seats were added in the bed so that the Brat could be imported as a car rather than a truck. Yep. > **[Cheap American Chicken Gave Us This Weird Subaru Pickup](https://www.wired.com/2014/12/subaru-brat/)** > > Way back in 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson initiated a series of tariff increases on brandy, dextrin, potato starch and, weirdly, light trucks valued at more than $1,000. He did this in response to a trade war with the Europeans, who were in a... > In the late 1970’s, Subaru—which was just gaining a foothold in the US—was looking to enter the light truck market with the Brat. That’s an acronym, for Bi-drive-Recreational All-terrain Transporter. Subaru was marketing it as a so-called coupe utility truck similar to the venerable El Camino. And to get around the Chicken Tax, Subaru welded a pair of seats to the cargo bed, then added carpeting, seat belts and grab handles of questionable utility. > > Voila! The Brat was no longer a truck. It was, under the law, a passenger vehicle and therefore exempt from the 25 percent Chicken Tax. (Light cars were, at the time, subjected to a 2.5 percent tariff.) ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6400 "2023-08-24T16:25:56Z")
did you not get the Baja? … that is a way more contemporary vehicle in the same format [![](https://acnews.blob.core.windows.net/imgnews/paragraph/NPAZ_557b3981bfa447d8bcf3b72c1e523478.jpg) ](https://acnews.blob.core.windows.net/imgnews/paragraph/NPAZ_557b3981bfa447d8bcf3b72c1e523478.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6401 "2023-08-24T17:29:36Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Ah, fond memories of sitting in the back of a Brat while the driver was four-wheeling. Those were great. They had grab handles that looked like they came off of ski poles. And thank God they did, you had to hold on for dear life. Fun times! ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6402 "2023-08-24T19:09:52Z")
Jesus Christ. > ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6403 "2023-08-24T19:16:11Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@ParallelLines](#): > > > > Am I the only one looking at the image of the side of a building that @Smapti linked and saw the haloed lightpost as a meteor heading straight for the X? > > Trident missile “Judges?” -nods- “We’ll allow it!” ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6404 "2023-08-24T19:18:23Z")
Musk is all excited and gloaty on X about how many people watched the Trump-Tucker Carlson interview. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/6405 "2023-08-24T19:25:37Z")
Hearing that kind of line as an employee would make me turn to a coworker and ask “Is Lego run by a rich nutjob too?” Tesla has a widely-known disregard to tight tolerances. They tell customers with misaligned panels that it’s within _their_ specs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=319) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=321)