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I like it.
Zero to sixty in 4.5 seconds.
10,000 lbs towing capacity.
300 mile range.

I am not a millennial...

There is a segment of the market that enjoys things like this

( the problem with the mainstream car companies is that if the cone out with something appealing to a small segment, eventually they try to appeal to everyone and everything evolves into a minivan -just as the Honda CRV eventually did.)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1574441814.jpg

the Pontiac Aztec of EVs

what's the range when its pulling 10k?

Bizarre. I blame drugs.

Tesla should have stuck with vehicles like the Roadster, and this "truck".

High priced luxury toys that aren't subsidy dependent to make a profit.

Maybe he thinks there is a market for it on the moon?

So...you want me to believe that a man that put a rocket in space, orbited around the Earth AND landed it upright on a landing pad didn't know those windows would break? His reaction wasn't even believable!

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Originally Posted by legion (Post 10666150)

Well, Musk does have a habit of firing anyone who disagrees with him. Maybe the prospective talent pool has gotten that thin.

True, but the real firing fool was JB Straubel, the CTO. He used to brag that Apple was the place where Tesla folks who couldn't cut it went.

Still and all, my daughter's Model 3 is a nice car, albeit ugly from the front.

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Originally Posted by nikita76 (Post 10666359)

There are people who love to find and share a flaw.

It is an old trick to include something easy for them to find, then they go share with lots of people.

Like you, I'm skeptical that this was a "fail".

I put in a pre-order.

The thing I was mostly disappointed about was not seeing some version of the magnetic wiper system they recently patented, but no such luck yet.

The comparison I find funny on other forums is people say they are now going for the Rivian because it's less ugly. Style-wise, I'd take an F150 or new Chevy over the Rivian's weird headlights. Cybertruck is cool because it's entirely different.

I bet it has a low radar cross-section...

I'm suing Musk for copyright infringement! I'm certain I drew the exact same truck on my notebook cover in 7th grade social studies class back in the 60s.

I like the electric ATV

I'll do a partial Copy & Past of what I posted in another forum.

Aerodynamically speaking, lots of drag from those wheel flares. I know this first hand and not just by looking at CFD images online because I've done stuff to my pickup truck.

I also expect a lot of flat plane rolling vortexes of which numerous diagrams have been posted in the forum over the years. That roof plane change isn't exactly a friendly transition.

From the Random Aerodynamic Oddity Thread:

Strouhal Numbers of Unsteady Flow Structures Around a Simplified Car Model
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-40371-2_26
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is work aims to gain relatively thorough understanding of unsteady flow structures around an Ahmed body and associated predominated Strouhal numbers St x SQ RT "A" based on the square root of the frontal area A.

Flow structures in the near-wake of the Ahmed model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889974605000514
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/imag...000514-gr1.jpg

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Time-dependant analysis revealed that the shedding behind the model is analogous to vortex shedding behind bluff bodies, with most of the fluctuations confined to the axial direction.

I suspect this Tesla has the military market in mind, and not so much civilian, why else the special unbreakable windows?

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Originally Posted by nikita76 (Post 10666183)

I don't think that's the actual truck.....I think it's a decoy.....

I'd lay money that street version will be a scaled down version of the Tesla Semi-Truck but on the same chassis/platform as this mock-up. I recall seeing a rendering of it a while ago.

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Found it in my Aerodynamic folder, do not recall where I got it from.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1574451037.jpg

Well, before it was unveiled he said it would be unlike anything out there. He delivered.

Now that the shock has worn off I do think it has some redeeming qualities. He won’t sell a high volume of these but other manufacturers will be copying aspects of it for years.

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It looks like it was designed by grade school kids to be made by grade school kids. No curves to complicate things, that is perhaps the simplest looking ugliest truck I have ever seen. It truly is like a parody, between the crappy looking construction, the broken armored glass and Musk generally fumbling about on stage. Like a Saturday night live skit, at best. One picture I saw online even showed the back left wheel appearing about ready to fall off. And his active air suspension is crap, the sag when they loaded the ATV was very pronounced.

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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951 (Post 10666439)

The crew of ARK II approves!

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The ARC , +rep.