Cyber truck is 100% a novelty car designed to make an annoying CEO happy and presumably away from the serious projects.
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GiveMemes@jlai.lu 10 months agoHe created a massive failure with a cult following? Because that’s what the PT cruiser was. The difference with the cybertruck being that it won’t sell to rental companies on account of the price.
“It was a novelty car, and like all novelty items the enthusiasm faded,” says Keenan Mayo, associate editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, who wrote an obituary of sorts for the Cruiser. “The only people who were really buying it for much of the last decade were the rental car companies because it was cheap.”
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KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Cybertruck is a mistake made in ~~Blender ~~ Solidworks allowed to go to production.
commandar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The PT Cruiser was more or less a Dodge Neon with a funny looking body shell on top, meaning engineering cost to bring it to market was pretty minimal.
The Cybertruck is… pretty much the opposite of that. Tesla has spent literally years trying to get the thing to market meaning it’s failure will be far more painful than PT Cruiser sales tapering off was for Chrysler.