Please describe this vehicle

Kinda funny that the Rivian, despite itself being pretty unusual-looking, is still by far the tamest design between them, Bollinger, and Tesla.

Well, Musk at least has been hinting since the beginning (if the name wasn’t enough of a giveaway) that the Cybertruck would be polarizing at best. And that they might make a normal truck if the demand is too low:

The thing is, if even 5% of the truck market thinks it’s badass, or doesn’t care about the looks and likes the practicality, that’s probably enough to saturate Tesla’s ability to produce them. Performance seems decent, at any rate.

Wow. That Tesla truck is really ugly, perhaps even uglier than the Bollinger.

A great vid explaining theBollinger B1 and B2 features. I’d drive one if I had the means.

I have to agree. it looks like a prop from Robo-cop or a bad 80s sci-fi movie. The ideas in the truck are good, the execution is, bad.

The other thing is I notice that a lot of the pickups used for actual work by tradespeople often have a rack above the bed attached to the hood above the passenger compartment. Real pickup trucks also have holes along the sidewalls, where supports can be inserted, or tie-off points along the outside. This truck is missing all of that, although I do see a couple of tie-off points on the inside of the bed, towards the bottom.

One more thing. Apparently Musk tried to demonstrate the shatter-proof glass used in the windows, but they shattered on impact.

It’s just a concept.

It is not. They are taking reservations. https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck

ETA: and that is the ugliest car I have ever seen. I have to go look at a Pontiac Aztek just to cleanse my eyes. In the Breaking Bad reboot in 2040, Walter White will be driving the Cybertuktuk (or however it is spelled).

My theory is that Musk came up with this live “test the windows” idea on the day of and none of the engineers who knew better were around to tell him, “Hey, we only put the armor glass on the windshield!” The windshield is huge and doesn’t have the compound curves that most cars have to provide it with strength, so my thought is that maybe they had to develop a special glass for it.

Just a hunch.

Yes I went there. $100 to reserve. That”s fine, but I still think it’s an early concept and when it goes to production it’ll look significantly different from those images, which I just captured and posted to imgur for eventual comparison — Tesla Cybertruck — site accessed 2019-11-22 - Album on Imgur.

Let me know if there are different images for this concept that aren’t represented by the images I captured.

Uhm, Elon Musk just had a big event unveiling the truck; it’s advertised on the website and the company is taking money from customers to reserve it; production is starting in about a year and a half; and you’re saying “Nope that’s not what they are going to build?”

What is your basis for this statement? Where, exactly, did you see that this is nothing but an “early concept?”

I am sharing my opinion. That’s based on car companies frequently building concepts to try ideas out and gauge public responses.

You may be right, it may be the truck that will be in production.

Wall Street Journal, this morning: Tesla Unveiled a Bulletproof Pickup. Then the Window Broke.

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