Tesla CyberTruck
 

He's either completely mad or a genius. I really don't know what to think...

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I don't get it, and what a huge blunder with the rock. I can't imagine that goes into production? Very mad max

As soon as I saw it I thought of this car. From the movie Wraith (Charlie Sheen)

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Ugly!

That car is bad a$$....movie not so much

I saw it...still thinking that it has to be a joke.?.

so ugly I put a deposit! Already applying for the tag

So what bad news is Musk trying to cover for?

if this goes into production, there will be hundreds of them crashing over our NYC metro potholes...I guarantee it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9gaEiQAxY

The first video comment references "cybertruck" LOL:D

He's going to generate a ton of publicity and talk. Everyone is going to talk and argue about it.

It'll probably be a flop, and then 10-20 years from now, they'll all look just like that.

I wonder if anyone believes a word that comes out of his mouth about pricing.

...still waiting for that $35k Model 3

You waited too long.
Could have got one for less than $35k (with the Fed tax credit) earlier this year.
Now it's $37k.

Did the designer come from the Navy?

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I like the flat everything.
Makes it easier to fix with plywood and cardboard.

As soon as I saw it I thought “you’re kidding, right?!”

It’s what a 4 year old would draw...

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

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

Lead designers:

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I blame gostraight. Too bad he's no longer on these forums.

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.)

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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!

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.

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.

The crew of ARK II approves!

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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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Flow structures in the near-wake of the Ahmed model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889974605000514
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I suspect this Tesla has the military market in mind, and not so much civilian, why else the special unbreakable windows?

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.

EDIT:

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

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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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The 70s are back!

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Yes, even Porsche
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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.

The ARC , +rep.

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