It’s like the G Wagon. Sorry if you like the car, but IMO it’s an overpriced ugly box that only shows off the fact the driver spent a shitton of money on an overpriced ugly box. But at least the G Wagon isn’t as stupid as this truck.
The G Wagon, as long as you don’t lower it and/or fit stupidly skinny tyres to it is actually pretty good off road, unlike the Tesla. Sure there are better cheaper options if you going off road, but at least the G Wagon can do that.
That truck goes through so much shit. The thing just keeps taking the abuse. It shows that abuse. But I doubt the shiny door wedge would suffer even half of just this before catastrophicly failing.
i saw one IRL today for the first time. was walking past the dealership in Chicago and they had one on display
there’s a Rolls Royce and Maserati dealer a few block away. what i thought at the time is that these are toys for the rich to show off, publicity for the South African, and nothing more
When the cybertrunk was first announced I kinda liked it. I’m utilitarian and don’t care what I drive looks like. The explanation I heard for the looks was because it was supposed to be really cheap to manufacture. So, a cheap ass EV pickup sounded pretty cool to me. Unfortunately, it’s not going to be cheap :(
The unibody is neither cheap nor easy to manufacture, and repairs are going to be a nightmare. The explanation is basically “Elron thought it looked cool”.
they are going to be totaled for stuff that’s a few K to repair on other cars.
They will also never be street legal in the EU, that fucking front looks like it’s designed to kill pedestrians, they couldn’t have made a sharper edge if they put a knife there.
They do. As someone who goes camping often and also takes care of a yard in America, I would never want to put mulch in a van. But let’s say I did, I couldn’t stack as much inside the van. A 4 wheeler doesn’t fit. It makes perfect sense for its use car just like every other object invented
Imagine driving everyday to work and not taking the trailer off the hitch because you need to get mulch two times a year and transport your bikes three times a year.
I need to own a school bus as a personal vehicle because sometimes we like to travel as a group of 12.
I load it into the bed of the truck, I don’t own a trailer. I’ve moved tvs, a piano, mattresses. These things don’t always fit in a covered location with a finite amount of space. Do you genuinely hate all pickup trucks?
Yeah I honestly hate all pickup trucks. I don’t hate you, though. From what I know, in your country most sensible cars have a very low towing capacity on paper. And although they could tow a trailer with a piano in other countries, they’re not allowed to in the US. So even for towing trailers, most people use pickup trucks, if I’m not mistaken.
In my country, I would tow a piano with a sedan, station wagon or a compact car. If I owned none of that but like a Ford fiesta or something small like that, I would hire a moving company for that one trip. It’s still cheaper than maintaining a truck 365 days a year.
Fair enough. I can’t vouch for the legality, but you are not mistaken. I would rent a uhaul if I found it necessary to move a piano, but I’ve used the bed of my pickup an awful lot. Most recently to bring in the Christmas tree. But I do a LOT of work around my house so I know I’m in the minority here. But being from rural-ish America I find that there are people who have a stock pickup that they use frequently as a pickup.
Meh, fair enough. I drive a Leaf, but have an old F250 that I use at least a couple times a month. I’m either hauling firewood, mulch, compost, rock, lumber, flooring, siding, appliances, large tools, junk, etc (I live in an old house that needs a lot of work, heat solely with wood, and make furniture and garden as a hobby). Not sure I would want to tow much with my little Leaf. I guess could rent a pickup a couple times a month, but that would be pretty inconvenient.
Good point, owning it as a side vehicle like an old tractor makes more sense.
My gripe with pickup trucks is more when they appear in traffic, in parking lots sticking out at every corner, in too narrow streets, around children who they can’t see cause they have their eyes 5 yards in the sky and a bonnet obstructing everything apart from the horizon, having a fuel economy and co2 emittance of a lorry without the contribution to our essential goods infrastructure.
I wish they would make like generic vehicles. Like, basic shit. Give me that nokia brick vehicle that I can drive forever and is dead simple to work on.
Soviets did that, they had a few types of vehicles that were cheap to make and that ran forever. some likely still running now. Really great stuff. ( I’m not a tankie I just like Soviet history.)
Too bad it’s gotten huge like every other car. I had an '86 Corolla and it was a good 25% smaller than the Corolla now. It was a really great car though.
Not to mention for civilization to collapse a hell of a lot of people have to die; which probably means environmental collapse; which means the oceans are dying; which in turn means there’s no oxygen being produced because the keystone species (phytoplankton, algae, etc) are mostly dead or switching to toxic modes of energy production. This means that everyone is dying, no matter if they have an ugly DRM controlled polywagon or not.
Past civilisations weren’t even close to industrialised, nor did they span the entire globe. The closest was the Roman Empire of course, and they just sort of faded away over the course of a few thousand years if you count Justinian’s Byzantine Empire as a direct continuation.
Our present situation is much more dire, with global consequences for reasons you are likely already aware.
I remember the power in the eastern half of my state being knocked out because of an ice storm. I remember that a lot of gas stations were closed, because the pumps run on electricity.
on one of the IASIP podcasts Glen Howerton who plays Denis on IASIP tells his story on how he got his Tesla stuck in a parking garage, because there was no signal there, so he couldn’t use his phone to open it, then called a tow truck after buddying up to the parking garage attendant, but that they couldn’t do it, because the size of the tow truck to lift the heavy tesla couldn’t fit into the garage.
it also inspired an episode in the latest season, brilliant stuff, how stupid it is.
I will def. have the last laugh: with no electricity (because remember, apocalypse), owners will starve or suffocate as they can’t even open their doors DAYS before i die of radiation induced cancer, laughing
There’s an Easter egg in Satisfactory (3d base building/logistics video game) where you can craft a “Cyber Wagon”, which looks exactly like a Cybertruck but with square wheels, and has the highest fuel consumption rate of any vehicle aside from the personal jetpack. It also handles like absolute shit on account of the square wheels.
It’s been said before, and it’s the kind of comment that essentially implies this community shouldn’t exist, but it’s extremely ironic for a community called “enough xyz spam” to essentially spam everyone’s feeds with posts about xyz. Imma go ahead and block this community, don’t take it personally peeps, I just actually have had enough of musk spam.
The title is a holdover from reddit where for far too long people sucked this guy off in basically every thread that they had a chance.
I kind of wish that they went with a different title for Lemmy just to avoid the apparent contradiction of only posting about Elon Musk in a community called “Enough Musk Spam”, but it is what it is I guess.
I’ve never seen the cyber truck from behind. But is it just me or does it look like the cyber truck not have a bead. Is there just like a super stylish tano or is there seriously not a bead on the cyber truck.
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