What a shock, the meme car only sold a few units before people were over it. LoL π
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Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year.
Iβd have guessed coke, not ketamine, as drug of choice to make these estimates. Maybe heβs already counting federal agencies to be stiffed with the cyberwanker?
It's the price. I want a truck, not a Cadillac with a bed. A truck is meant for work not be a pavement princess. $50k was already high and the truck market is still stupid on price with most trucks going over $60k and Cybertruck starts at $75.5k. If the price was what Elon said when he announced the Cybertruck, it would be flying off the shelves $40k
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Turns out the group of people who look at mid nineties Laura Croft and think βthat low polygon count asthenic is exactly how I like my women and trucks, Iβve got lots of disposable income to buy a truck that canβt do many truck things well, and Iβm glad a far right ketamine fueled tech bro is running the company!β Is a small number of people.
Who would've thought that a very expensive truck in an ev market that is lukewarm at best, add in a good amount of weird looks and unreliability, wouldn't be a big seller? I could pick a conventional truck for a fraction of the price or this. People who bought it were doing it for show and now that market is tapped out.
I'm still waiting for them to finish loading in.
Tesla made 2.8 billion last year from selling regulatory credits. So they really didn't have to care how many cars they sold. But those surely are going away, so they are going to have to do some other government handout, which Elon is probably hand picking right now.
At least the Wolkswagen was egineered properly. I don't see anyone continuing to use this design after the war.
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Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.
I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like "I don't need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!" and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.
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There were stops left that could be removed from Cybertrucks, still?