You ever been driving down the road when a crazed band of gangbangers rolled through your suburban neighborhood and blasted up the side of your truck with Uzis and Gatling guns for no reason? No, but you could easily imagine a scenario where that happens, right? Well, if your imagination became a reality, you’d need the only truck on the market that keeps pointing out it’s bulletproof for some reason.
Does your neighborhood have a billionaire who throws rocks at your truck window? No? Good, Cybertruck can’t handle that.
What if an anvil falls from the sky, or what if you drive into what seems to be a tunnel but turns out to be a realistic painting on the side of a mountain? It happens, dude—I’ve seen it on TV. Cybertruck could withstand that kind of stuff, but like, even more, Cybertruck is the only truck that will keep self-driving itself into the side of the mountain until it makes a real tunnel. In fact, Cybertruck could make a tunnel for a hyperloop from LA to San Francisco.
Edit: In case it isn’t clear, this is satire.
I live in truck country and I haven’t seen one of these yet. I’ve seen some Rivians out and about though.
Apparently they only have manufactured 3800 of them so far, so I feel like it’s gonna be a while before we actually start seeing them
I live near a super charger on the Bay Area. They’re definitely around and I don’t enjoy it for a few reasons.
Unsafe, heavy trucks with hoods that poke out past the bumper (or that’s how I eye it when I look).
The sharp bumper is the most frightening part, considering the weight.
Complete agree. “Perfect” height for head strike on young or shorter people.
It’s not enough to be that height, they pushed it out.
Plus it’s much thicker stiffer steel (that still rusts) so even a 6 footer like me is fucked if I get hit crossing the street.
Trucks need pedestrian safety standards and designs like this (and all the other stupidly tall grills) need to go first.
Here’s what’s crazy to me and this isn’t even a Cybertruck thing… I live in Indiana. There is, as far as I know, one Tesla dealership in the state and it’s a 90-minute drive. Almost 100 miles. I see so many Teslas driving around town. If anything serious goes wrong with any of them, they’ll have to have it towed all that distance. So crazy.
I live in the Bay Area and a coworker tells me he sees them every day. I walk to work, he drives. I’ve only seen one and it was parked.
I work in Irvine CA and I see them a couple times a week when I’m out for lunch. Might be the same guy or two though going to lunch at similar shopping centers.
Despite technically being a truck, they don’t really compete with trucks. Maybe they compete with Ford Raptors, but not “real trucks.” The only people that are going to buy them are the ones that think it is cool, which are probably not truck guys.
Ford Raptors are most certainly real trucks. It’s a souped up F-150.
Yes, but you buy it for the cool factor more than needing a work truck. It’s not a good comparison, just the best one I can think of.
True. I thought about buying one because they do indeed look cool. But they’re too damned big to park in the city, and the extra wide wheelbase makes them a poor choice for small, back-country fire roads that lead to backpacking trailheads, which is what I mostly use my truck for.
I live near Seattle and have seen them around me. I also went to San Francisco a few weeks back and saw several there.
We have TONS of Rivians too.