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I heard with this new Tesla truck that the accelerator won't work unless you have the Marty McFly shoes on. |
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That thing looks stoooopid.
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Never heard of him...
Have we signed this piece of shit yet? |
I don't know how anyone who uses a truck for anything useful aside from hauling your boat or RV can think that design is remotely close to functional.
Where do you put the toolbox, since the bed wall is so slanted? What if you need to grab something that's up at the front of the bed? In a regular truck you can just reach over - good luck with that with the Cybertruck. Feeding cows in the winter - usually one guy drives and the other sits on the bedwall and chucks the hay every 40 yards or so. Can't do that on the slanted bedwall, especially if it's wet and icy. You sideload? Gonna be a PITA. Also, why can't you have a flat roof? Sometimes it's nice to just stick your lemonade/drink up there while your digging post holes or tightening fence lines. I do like the high clearance and no drive train though. Doing irrigation work in Utah can be hell on a normal ICE drive train when you're crossing irrigation ditches and banging your drive train on a rock all the time. Function before form, Elon! |
I agree with the take that this is thoroughly a Gen X product. This is what every 80s movie depicted what cars of the future would look like.
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I like the look of it. The thing that has always bugged me about Tesla vehicles is that the damn things look like cars for no good reason.
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Ugly space shit looking thing.
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It's a truck for people who don't actually want or use a truck. Which IMO, is really ****ing bad marketing. Now people will only talk about what it isn't instead of what it is. Which is what we're doing right now. Had they just pegged it as a Truck/SUV hybrid or an SUV i don't think there'd be as much scrutiny. |
Looks like something you’d drive around in Halo
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Wow. That thing is not a pick-up.
I don't think Elon knows anything about the pick-up market and the people that buy them. Plus, most of the accessories people want such as tool boxes, etc. aren't going to fit in that thing. |
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Maybe that's not what the actual product will look like, so I'll reserve my final judgement on that thing.
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If it can pull my 5th wheel camper with a loaded trailer or boat behind it and recharge as quick as I can fill up. Then it would be worth looking into.
Needs to produce ho and torque specs of a modified 6.7 Cummins diesel. To be considered valid. Otherwise it’s a skinny jeans, white sun glasses tribal ban tattoo dbag truck. |
I think what I saw in LA is this thing: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/take...mann-king.html
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Maybe you didn’t get a good look because the stealth technology is well done. Probably lucky you saw it at all. |
Why are they bothering to make a truck if it's not going to be aimed at the working class?
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The truck is ugly, no doubt, but it is a game changer especially for companies with fleets of trucks needed. The cost of ownership and value of such a truck especially with companies that understand the economics. Just so so so much value. I was floored how cheap it is. I thought the price tag was going to be at least 80k starting out. |
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I will have to see how they hold value before committing since I trade in new every 2 years. |
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If there is enough room in that bed for about 4 100watt solar panels so I can stop and recharge during daylight, I guess I have found my apocalyptic bugout vehicle!
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I just bought a new truck after some asshole rear-ended me and twisted the frame on my old one. I had a Toyota Tacoma. 15 years and 300,000 miles. Just got another Toyota because they are extremely reliable.
Would I have purchased the Tesla? Doubtful: 1. it's ugly as sin. I just don't like it 2. I wonder about the range 3. Electric cars do not do as well in the cold and Alaska gets cold (although not this year) 4. I wonder how Tesla as a company will do. If the company goes under, where does one get parts, service, etc.? I keep reading that they have yet to turn a profit and that makes me reluctant to buy one of their vehicles 5. I realize I'm just an old fart who doesn't trust these new-fangled things. The concept is interesting and in a few years might be worth while but I've learned from computers that its best to wait a bit and get the bugs and kinks worked out. |
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Wonder how much Musk is saving on production by just having to bend steel for body panels rather than truly having to tool body panels for styling? Then again material costs might make the cost savings on the simplistic design of the body moot.
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Batteries don’t work as well in the cold, it really just shortens the distance they can go on a charge a little. It also affected your Volt, but with the gas aspect you might not have noticed.
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Batteries don’t work as well in the cold, it really just shortens the distance they can go on a charge a little. It also affected your Volt, but with the gas aspect you might not have noticed.
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*Like all good Alaskans, I have a block heater in my engine that I plug in at night. It's why you see rows of electrical outlets in pictures of Fairbanks. The plug is a little heating coil that keeps the engine block warm, or at least warm for the temperatures, so oil isn't as thick, starting is easier and the engine gets to operating temperature faster. |
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Right now is generally a cloudy time of year. Seems that by mid January it starts getting a lot sunnier, but the low-lying clouds aren't around to keep in heat so it actually get colder as it gets sunnier. But a bright sunny day with lots of fresh new snow is a great day. And the nights with the aurora spread out against the sky and the stars seem so close that you want to reach up and pluck them from the sky? Can't get it anywhere else. |
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1. Reliability - Fat boy doesn't do downtime. Especially during the busy season. 2. Functionality - Speaks for itself. I have a toolbox, a set of drawers in the cab, and a compressor. I'm to the point where I really can't do without any of it. 3. Maintenance - I do enough maintenance on machines that actually make me money. I'm not jumping up and down to do more. 4. Cost per mile - both on operation and trade |
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What makes it cyber?
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just like most of the muscle cars, too. |
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Much better efficiency in the summer and on longer trips in my experience. |
Does the camping edition come with 3 seashells in lieu of toilet paper?
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/Ford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ford</a> spokesman's response ⤵️ <a href="https://t.co/lNyVkBaFm6">https://t.co/lNyVkBaFm6</a></p>— Michael Martinez (@MikeMartinez_AN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeMartinez_AN/status/1197735486304989186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Yeah, that's definitely true. You wouldn't have been able to sell a lot of $50,000 trucks before these extended loan terms came about. But now that people are stretching them out to 72 or 84 (!) months, they think "Well $800-900 a month isn't so bad..." Dude, you're going to buy a $50,000 truck and end up paying like $75,000 |
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I haven't had a car payment since 2006. Good friend of mine leased a sweet GMC truck..time to return the truck, wanted to give him a lesser model on the new lease for what you quoted. Eight bones. Bought a 2015 Mercedes from an older gentleman with 27k. It's obscene. Houses used to be these prices. |
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