# 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:** 383
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7646 "2023-11-15T01:22:29Z")
Me: So, what advantages does this motor car have over, say, a train? Which I could also easily afford. Elmo: Well, you see, Count Smapti… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7647 "2023-11-15T01:39:08Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > If you could convince 360 strangers to spend an hour pretending to be interested in a cybertruck for $50 each, you’ve just gotten a cybertruck for $18K. No, you’ve just gotten a cybertruck for $18 K _less than sticker price._ ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7648 "2023-11-15T01:52:42Z")
360 x ($275 - $50) = $81,000 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7649 "2023-11-15T01:56:37Z")
Pretty sure any such offer will be one discount per truck purchased. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7650 "2023-11-15T02:16:12Z")
I’d have to imagine so, otherwise Cybertruck purchasers would just have to network together to trade test drives with each other for free on the honor system so that they each got 360 other future Cybertruck buyers to test drive, and Cybertucks are now free. It brings me no end of happiness that Cybertruck isn’t recognized as a word and it gets a spell check warning. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7651 "2023-11-15T02:39:36Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > $275 just to test drive a truck is a lot of money. Just to be clear - we will test-drive a Tesla _car_ so the guy can get his discount, not a truck. (I’d be surprised if the Cybertruck will be seen in the Hawaiian Islands for quite some time.) ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7652 "2023-11-15T02:53:02Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I’d be surprised if the Cybertruck will be seen in the Hawaiian Islands for quite some time. Elmo did say it can function briefly as a boat. Sounds like the perfect island-hopper! ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7653 "2023-11-15T03:06:55Z")
😆 😆 😆 A favorite story told by a friend of mine was when he was advising a couple of tourists staying at his B&B on the Big Island (Hawai’i Island). After several days of enjoying the local attractions, they were ready to move on to the next island on their itinerary - with their rental car. So they asked my friend, “How do we get to the bridge to Maui?” (Not sure where they got that idea, other than that (a) you can see Maui in the distance from parts of the Big Island, if the day is clear; and (b) over the years there have been discussions of a ferry - so far unrealized - among various islands, so people could drive their cars onto the ferry and bring them to other islands. But it’s a pretty big leap from those things to a bridge.) ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7654 "2023-11-15T03:13:33Z")
If not one, at least limited. A friend got some sort of kickback if someone cited him when they **bought** a new car and they told him I was the last they’d pay him for; he’d brought them five paying customers, not just test drives. He thought they were joking. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7655 "2023-11-15T03:33:54Z")
Probably because they suspected that he was intercepting customers somehow who were going to buy anyway. Party A posts a message on social media “If you are going to purchase a car from Benchmark Mazda, I will pay you $100 if you say that I referred you”. Ten parties take him up on the offer and five of them actually go through and buy a car. Dealer asks them how they know Party A, and their answers are not credible. Not saying this is what your friend did, but this is something that the dealership might suspect. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7656 "2023-11-15T03:40:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@CairoCarol](#): > > > > I’d be surprised if the Cybertruck will be seen in the Hawaiian Islands for quite some time. > > Elmo did say it can function briefly as a boat. Sounds like the perfect island-hopper! “Island-hopper”? I’m sure Elmo will be driving ze Cybertruck from San Francisco to Honolulu. I haven’t seen any actual news reports, but I just know he is, because, like, this is Elmo. It’s amphibious, dontcha know? Which means it can get wet and still work. So what better heroic macho reason to drive the Cybertruck across the Pacific Ocean, which is known to the State of California to be wet? And then after that (because this is Elmo, after all) off to Mars, and then, to infinity, and beyond! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7657 "2023-11-15T03:42:59Z")
The more I look at that thing, the less truck-like it looks. More like a funky sedan with an extra-funky rear end. Heck, you could (and people do) take a real sedan, chop the roof off and seats out of the back end, do a little more work, and you’d have a [way more useful pickup](https://www.hotcars.com/these-15-cars-were-turned-into-pickups-by-their-owners-and-were-not-impressed/) than the Cyberthingie. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7658 "2023-11-15T03:54:02Z")
I’d like to see somebody vandalize their new Cybertruck into a BRAT. By far the best part would be the open air rearward-facing seats. But now with ~~cupholders~~ beercan holders! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7659 "2023-11-15T04:08:55Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > The more I look at that thing, the less truck-like it looks. More like a funky sedan with an extra-funky rear end. It’s the Cyber El Camino or Ranchero. Mind you, I owned a Ranchero that I liked a lot, and there’s nothing really wrong with an El Camino or other utes. But the Cybertruck comparison to a Delorean is especially apt. They both seem to be big piles of overpriced suck. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7660 "2023-11-15T04:10:00Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > Totally real and totally drivable. > > The Big Trak?! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Afofc_Jt86s/maxresdefault.jpg "1984 - The Animal Truck Toy Ad") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afofc_Jt86s) ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7661 "2023-11-15T04:25:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Elmo did say it can function briefly as a boat. And some boats (eventually) function as an artificial reef. So he’s not wrong. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7662 "2023-11-15T05:17:59Z")
I haven’t even watched that video yet, but I saw the still and in my brain I heard… “The Animal… The Animal… Can anything stop… THE ANIMAL?!” There are things that were burned in my head as a kid and that commercial was one. I wanted one of those toys so badly. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7663 "2023-11-15T05:21:51Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > the less truck-like it looks. More like a funky sedan with an extra-funky rear end. In other words, an El Camino drawn by a talentless 8-year-old with a straightedge. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7664 "2023-11-15T06:27:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Elmo did say it can function briefly as a boat. That’s nothing. Every car in the world can function very briefly as a submarine. > [@CairoCarol](#): > > “How do we get to the bridge to Maui?” If you ever get this question again, tell them there’s no bridge, but if they drive to the summit of the volcano, they can attach their car to the zip line. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/7665 "2023-11-15T06:32:11Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Every car in the world can function very briefly as a submarine. And with enough cars, you can [make that bridge to Maui](https://what-if.xkcd.com/160/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=382) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=384)