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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 8 months ago (24 children)

You buy a vehicle that literally looks like a broken brick, from a fascist with no concern for the well being of human beings, who supports racists and every other piece of filth, you are getting what you paid for and exactly what you deserve.

[–] johannesvanderwhales 8 points 8 months ago

I think people who are very online tend to greatly overestimate how much attention the average person is paying to Elon Musk.

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[–] malloc 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I still find it hard to believe people paid money for this trash. Have seen a few on the road and it looks even worse in person. Almost convinced the few people I see are paid by Tesla to “show them off”

I don’t even know what the marketing pitch is for this thing. Middle aged Tesla fanatics with too much money than brains?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

A fool and his money…something something…

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I watched DeMuro's video on it, because it's the first close look I've been able to get without it being marketing nonsense.

The tonneau cover is neat. It's like a rolltop desk cover, motorized.

Literally every other design choice is either stupid or dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The hard tonneau cover is often an option on most trucks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Motorized tonneau covers are aftermarket addons that add around 2k to the price of the vehicle, plus installation.

They also take up a not insignificant amount of space near the front of the bed with the canister.

Teslas solution genuinely looks pretty good all things considered. Time will tell how they hold up. People are usually 50/50 on if they like their tonneau covers or think that they’re leaky garbage.

[–] Donjuanme 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My Internet education has learned (sic) me forums are a place to complain no matter how good the product is. Also ice publications love shitting on ev's any way they can. This however I'm absolutely believing.

[–] Glowstick 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah the cybertruck is garbage, but forum complaints existing is a meaningless measure. Every product in existence has forums where you can find people complaining about the product.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

when the garbage product is so inexorably tied to the garbage piece of waste that owns the company as it's figurehead, these things are bound to happen

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unless that product is a Brother laser printer

[–] psycho_driver 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have had to perform a repair on my 13 year old Brother laser printer. I'm a little sore about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I found mine in a bin ten years ago, bought a toner cartridge, and have only printed a dozen pages since then. What waste of money, I’m furious!

[–] reddig33 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How much longer until Tesla cancels this project and proclaims this model is a “limited edition”?

[–] Chocrates 15 points 8 months ago

Musk is too ego driven to let this fail, he would bet the company if he had too, is my guess.

[–] tpyo 25 points 8 months ago

This was the first post I saw after seeing one driving the opposite way on the highway;

it's hideous

[–] thorbot 22 points 8 months ago

CyberFucked

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So the vehicle that looks like it was constructed after the apocalypse happened is actually living up to it's looks. This is literally a prop from a MadMax movie.

[–] Valmond 16 points 8 months ago

It looks like a lunar vehicle that has a max speed of 12 km/h.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I still can't get over the design. It looks so aesthetically unpleasing and like something out of a dystopian future from a 1980s movie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

That actually was the idea. Personally, I like the low-poly, 80's cyberpunk look. I just hate that it's a Tesla and has tons of other issues besides what it looks like.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Total Recall would like a word.

[–] FenrirIII 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Freejack would like someone to remember it exists.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're gonna need to install the Foxconn nets outside their customer service call centers if they keep selling these trucks

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Glytch 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

DeLoreans were better quality steel and didn't rust in the rain.

[–] Valmond 13 points 8 months ago

Stainless steel even.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They were also made by people with actual industry experience. They sucked at making a product people wanted but they didn't such at actually making a product.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm definitely kidding

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I just saw one of these fucking things IRL for the first time driving down the opposite lane as me on my way home.

It's bigger and uglier than it looks in pictures. I thought it was like the size of a Model 3 or there abouts. Shit was bigger than an Escalade.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

LOOOOOOOOOL

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