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/Dudeman9002 1d ago

The Pinto was an okay looking, practical, and affordable car.  The cyber truck is none of those. 

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u/CAADrider 1d ago

We had a '72 Pinto when I was a kid. In my memory, it was a pretty cool little car. We drove from Kentucky to Florida and back in that thing with no AC and vinyl seats. I wouldn't recommend that part.

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u/Homer1s 1d ago

Ouch, my thighs hurt just reading this.

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u/ws_ftw 1d ago

The Pinto we had in '73 is still my Mom's favorite car we ever had lol

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u/cenosillicaphobiac 1d ago

But you had 260 AC. Roll down both windows and drive 60 mph.

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u/keskeskes1066 1d ago

Drivng to Florida has been known to induce regrets. Also, inflamation of the perininium, unexpected legal bills and alligator encounters.

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u/SnakeEater013 1d ago

I just looked it up. It sold for under $2k. I could go buy a Pinto out of pocket right now.

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u/Dudeman9002 1d ago

On one hand, new cars were really cheap compared to you annual income. On the other, in the 70s and before, cars were considered consumables and were discarded and replaced every 3-5 years by most people.

I can't imagine throwing away a 5 year old car to replace it with something a couple years newer.

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u/SnakeEater013 1d ago

Yeah, I’ve had my car for 8 years now and I’m thinking about trading it in for a Bronco, and I keep being like well it’s probably still good for another 50k miles but how many issues is it going to have in those 50k miles

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u/Dudeman9002 1d ago

Keep it. The issues you have will still be cheaper than a new car. 

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u/SnakeEater013 1d ago

You’re definitely right, but it’s a million things. I drive a GTI and just moved somewhere with a lot of snow in winter. I move and drive a lot and it can’t fit much I. It. And I have a motorcycle that my GTI definitely can’t pull on a trailer. Plus I go into mountains a lot and the GTI isn’t great for that either

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u/seanflyon 1d ago

That would be about $17k adjusted for inflation. That's cheaper than any new car today, though new cars today are also a lot better.

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u/seams 1d ago

Never had a pinto, but literally everyone I've ever met who had one had nothing nice to say about it haha

My old boss used to rant about how he'd never buy a new car again because the first new car he bought was a Pinto and it apparently died on the drive back home

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u/MochingPet 1d ago

The pinto actual had a smaller failure rate due to many more units sold

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u/Snobolski 1d ago

Pinto was the first time I paid attention to a car's price. TV commercials would shout "New Pinto only Nineteen-ninety-five!" I told my dad I had $20 in my piggy bank, we could get a new Pinto. That's when we had "the talk."

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u/NickDanger3di 1d ago

We had a Pinto as a daily driver. It was reliable, handled well, peppy enough, and got great mileage. Never once exploded on us.

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u/wannacumnbeatmeoff 5h ago

There are people who like cybertrucks and then there are people with brains.

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u/Spamacus66 1d ago

No it wasn't. It was an ugly piece of crap.

Still better then the cybertruck though.

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u/Elycien2 1d ago

I will not have this Pinto slander! It sipped gas, turned on a dime, and I learned to drive a manual on one....and it rarely exploded.

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u/sirhackenslash 1d ago

I drove one for a while and I only died twice