Removing all those spiderweb cracks from people throwing iron balls at it would be a bitch, too.
I haven’t been to the Buell website in a long time and just took at gander. You aren’t freaking kidding! That initial page should come with a “could induce seizures, even if you’ve never had them” warning. 
My Buell is a 15 year old version built off an air-cooled HD engine. It looks more like this:
If that’s a risk, just buy the decal, so vandals will think someone else beat them to the punch:
Sold out immediately!
My garage is too small, and I don’t have much use for a truck. If I did, it would absolutely be in the running.
Jason Cammisa has a great preview:
And actually, you might just skip the preview (although the camera work and such are great as always) and listen to the podcast, if you just want something to put in the background:
He’s totally blown away by the tech, and the stainless steel is pretty much the least of it. The 48v architecture plus a gigabit comms bus are a huge leap forward and saves something like 3/4 of the weight of a traditional wiring setup. Although that’s no directly visible to the consumer, it does enable steer-by-wire and the weight savings gives a noticeable perf improvement. The Cybertruck is lighter any any of the electric competition and even lighter than some ICE trucks. Despite also having better cargo specs (not to mention perf specs).
Jason actually went into it with a pretty negative view (you know, brodozer for nerds, etc.) but came away deeply impressed by the engineering after talking with actual engineers at the company. Among other quotes, he said:
“I would hang myself if I worked for a traditional car company right now”
Ok, maybe a tad hyperbolic 
. But it’s clear that Tesla is yet again 10 years ahead of the competition. Even if the Cybertruck itself flops, the tech advances they made will trickle down to their other lines. And not in the bullshit way that car companies say their racecar tech trickles down, which it almost never does. 48v is a much needed advance and getting everything in the supply chain situated to ship even a single production car is something that no one else has done yet.
a small detail people are just finding out … the 6 ft. bed only has 3 ft. of usable space
Just pack a can of Fix-A-Flat and you’re good to go.
So the range extender is a relly big button cell?
yep 3V … you put one of those into your garage’s remote control and you are good for life!
If there was an electric F-150 with the features I need for a farm and hauling truck (4WD, tow rating, bed size, and load capacity), I’d get it. This ain’t it. This appears to be made for macho car nerds with a fat wallet, i.e. Musk and his followers.
I did a reverse image source for that photo and it appeared to come from the Tesla website, which sells an optional spare tire and tool kit for $1,250. The text on the website mentions the ability to change a tire even off-road, so they may expect that normally, users use fix-a-flat to address flat tires when in town.
And, to be honest, flat tires are relatively rare recently.
You haven’t driven around Chicago with low profile tires. My wife’s Hyundai has had 4 flats in the span of a year (mid 2022- mid 2023), once twice in the same month.
Yes, yes, I’m sure where you live, people have flat tires every other day. But based on my experience and that of friends and family, I believe they are much less rare than previously. (And to be honest, low-profile tires may be part of the problem for your wife.)
I’m 99% sure the low profile is the issue. I haven’t had a flat on my 2014 Mazda (but my 2004 Mazda suffered like 5 flats on regular profile tires. I got real good at changing those out in under five minutes. Then again, we had the same problems with the old Ford Focus, also normal profile tires, with her car. The potholes here are insane.)
Oh, and when did 6’ beds become acceptable, and even standard, for pickup trucks? Back in the day, if you couldn’t fit a 4’ by 8’ plywood flat in the bed, you couldn’t even justify calling it a pickup truck. Did the shorter beds become standard at the same time as the extended cabs?
yes, that happened around the same time and is the main reason …
there’s only so much space between the bumpers and you can distribute it to people or plywood.
the market spoke !!!
Where does the F150 Lightning fall short? I’ve heard that it’s not good at towing, but that seems to be true for all EVs so far.
So the broken window theory is not longer a thing? Frankly, if the decals are cheap enough I am tempted to buy them just to put them on other people’s cars to give them a fright before they notice.
Exactly. Same phenomenon.
Essentially what took place is that the pickup truck went from being, well, a truck - a vehicle that existed for the purpose of carrying small loads for work purposes - to being a lifestyle thing, a personal vehicle purchased because of the way it looked. That necessitated longer cabs so you could have lots of passengers, so a guy could take his kids to school and whatnot.
The cybertruck is sort of an offshoot of that - a vehicle people buy because of its association with Elon Musk.
I did once see a “pickup truck” which had, literally, a 2’ long bed. That’s not a truck; it’s an SUV with a funny-shaped bumper. The only purpose for that “bed” was for looks.
Though apparently, nobody was that stupid, because I never saw that model again.