Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t think I’d call that thing a pickup. I’m not gonna run to the farm and pick up a 1000lb bale of hay in that thing. A Baja looks like it has more bed space.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A bad pickup truck is still just a pickup truck.

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    • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yep, what else could you call it? It’s not a hatchback, a sedan, a convertible, a sports car, etc.

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Swasticar

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        An enormous mistake?

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s an Ute, like the old El Camino etc.

        Real pickups have body-on-frame construction with cabs and beds bolted onto the chassis separately, so that the bed can be removed and replaced with a specialized/custom one if necessary.

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      • Glent@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The worst El Camino ever?

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      • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        A kid’s drawing of a car come to life.

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      • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hakencruiser

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      • Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Trash.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Most pickup truck owners don’t do that either.

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    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Maybe in the US they don’t…

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And more ground clearance

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• Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It makes more sense if you start from the other side - EVs are a niche market, and an electric truck is a small subset of that.

  The Cybertruck sold 38,965 units last year, vs 33,510 for the Ford F150 Lightning.

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  • faltryka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    One of the things I love about my Lightning is that it doesn’t look like a fucking cybertruck

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    • SouthFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Other truck makers tend to let their vehicles fully render.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I will hand it to Tesla, iterating on the Cybertruck design must have been really fast.

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      • radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Gotta save some polygons.

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    • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The Lightning really is a nice looking truck.

      The trapezoid Minecraft Cybertruck Deplorian— not so much…

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Deplorian

        I’ll be borrowing that one.

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      • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Image

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      • ProgramingPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hey, that is a very hurtful thing to say about Minecraft. Please don’t compare it to that rolling dumpster fire

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      • Hezzmana@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Deplorian… Made me snarf. My previous go to, overheard a while back, Incel Camino.

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    • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not a Ford guy, but they do look pretty good.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They shipped 39k cybertrucks for backlogged preorders that were based on a completely different description of what the truck would be.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well yeah, but to be fair, they were lying.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Which is mind boggling, as the Lightning seems like a good, attractive vehicle, while the cybertruck seems like a pile of shit

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    • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I have no need for a truck, and I still considered getting one. The Lightning is very impressive all around.

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    • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The Lightning has also been out for a few years now, so it’s not the “new” thing. Also, I feel like half of those cYbErTrUcK purchases were people trying to resell them.

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      • TehWorld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hopefully these people get double-fucked. Moreso because they bought a swasticar from President Musk, but also because fuckyou to people who buy stuff just to resell at a higher margin.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m assuming the electric f150 has greater than 1 wheel drive?

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    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I guess making a search online is the one thing slightly more difficult than making an assumption.

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      • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You gotta love these comments in forums. Like the whole point of being here is to discuss and people like this are literally telling you to leave the site. Very useful, much contributions.

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Actually most vehicles are only 1-wheel drive unless they have a locker or similar installed (4x4 would be “2-wheel drive”).

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Which vehicles have that? The base cybertruck has two motors for AWD.

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      • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s just to make OP feel smart. A single driven axle with an open differential with one wheel on more slippery ground than the other would result in only one wheel transferring torque.

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Regular F150s have single wheel drive.

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To be fair, it’s valid to cater to niche markets.

  However, that wasn’t what Tesla was aiming to do.

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  • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    cybertruck is barely even a truck at all. its a truck shaped car for rich assholes to look rugged.

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    • reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Try and fail to look rugged.

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      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They’re a comedy show on wheels. They always lighten my mood when I see them. I’m a little smug too, knowing if I had that much money to blow, it wouldn’t be on one of those.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Which is a very niche market

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  pickup trucks are hardly a niche product

  Tanks camouflaged as pickup trucks are.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When did they start importing the Hilux?

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• EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And the cybertruck is hardly a pickup truck. What were you saying?

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