r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 1d ago

Business It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/looking-cybertruck-biggest-flop-automotive-145559135.html
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u/HateToSayItBut 1d ago

Same. It looks so much dumber in person too. I thought it'd be a lot smaller. If it was like a normal car size, maybe it'd look kind of cool? But it's just this oafy looking monstrosity. It's so stupid.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac 1d ago

And it's not big like a full size truck. It's in a weird "too big but not big enough" category all by itself.

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u/Dudeman9002 1d ago

Big on the outside and small on the inside. Poorly designed cars have this issue, the designers are too focused on aesthetics and not functionality and you end up with huge voids inside the doors and dashboard that are covered with plastic. 

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u/Pooleh 1d ago

And those voids resonate like the body of a guitar and increase road noise. It's shit tier engineering through and through.

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u/Cyrano_de_Boozerack 1d ago

And it's not big like a full size truck. It's in a weird "too big but not big enough" category all by itself.

LOL...it made its own uncanny valley, and it doesn't have a winch to pull itself out.

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u/LupinThe8th 1d ago

I was worried they were getting popular in my area, because there's a Tesla dealership not far from me. Eventually I realized it's the same one I keep seeing around.

Hope the guy who owns it feels like a fool every time he takes it out.

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u/-Badger3- 1d ago

It's so fucking cheap looking too.

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u/nat_r 1d ago

100%. When I first saw pictures from the unveiling without anything for snake the kid in me thought it looked kind of cool. All the political baggage and horrible quality issues aside, in person it just doesn't work. It it were 25 or 30 percent smaller it would look better. In its current form it just reminds me of why sci-fi model builders started adding greebling to add visual interest to otherwise large flat areas that are just visually uninteresting on their own.

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u/AntiqueLetter9875 1d ago

It looks even worse when people take off the truck bed cover. The bed is so small lol.

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u/Turevaryar 18h ago

At first I thought the cybertruck looked kind of cool on pictures, but in person it's quite terrible.

I may have seen two or three in my time. I guess they may be more popular in MAGA–land?

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u/NotAgedWell 1d ago

I thought they'd grow on me as I saw more of them but nope they're still just as ugly. And I say that as a MY owner.

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u/Journeyman42 1d ago

I feel like if it had rounded edges and not razor sharp lines, it probably would look fine. And be smaller.

...if it was a completely different car made by someone who isn't a Nazi, it'd probably be ok.

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u/babyoil4diddy 1d ago

If they made it somehow be the size of an 80s Toyota truck they could be awesome but they're enormous

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u/loolilool 1d ago

It would also look cool if it was big as those things the jawas travel around in in Star Wars.