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…
No, you’ve just gotten a cybertruck for $18 K less than sticker price.
360 x ($275 - $50) = $81,000
Pretty sure any such offer will be one discount per truck purchased.
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.
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.)
Elmo did say it can function briefly as a boat. Sounds like the perfect island-hopper!
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.)
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.
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.
“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!
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 than the Cyberthingie.
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!
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.
And some boats (eventually) function as an artificial reef. So he’s not wrong.
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.
In other words, an El Camino drawn by a talentless 8-year-old with a straightedge.
That’s nothing. Every car in the world can function very briefly as a submarine.
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.
And with enough cars, you can make that bridge to Maui.