Honestly it might have been fine if he managed to keep his public image under control or it was not so tightly coupled with Tesla's brand. Most large trucks and SUVs are suburban grocery getters or used to take Timmy to soccer practice so they don't actually have to be practical at all.

I honestly like the blade runner look. At least it's a little different than the ubiquitous cross overs that all look the same. I would never buy one though because Tesla has shit quality and Elon is a wanker.

That's the thing. Design implies engineering decisions. Decisions requiring huge amounts of expertise, talent and work. All Musk did is get in front of his lead engineers, handed a crudely drawn triangle on a piece of paper and said "It must look like this, make it happen". He did the easiest 0.001% part of the job of coming up with an idea for something that he thought looked cool and the rest was done by people who are far more intelligent and talented than him. And yet he is the one giving himself all the credit for it. This undeserved self-praise, stealing of credit (and wages) from other people's work and the sheer arrogant intellectual dishonesty of believing that he is as smart and hard working as those people who are actually making things happen is why I can't stand Musk.

The fact that the Cybertruck is a stupidly flawed, barely functional monstrosity with tons of production issues and insane price tag are side effects of all the compromises that had to be done to fulfill Musk's demands. It is literally Musk's equivalent of The Homer car from the Simpsons.

It's definitely his Homer Simpson car. I bet he drew it in crayon with his tongue out.

Watch Aliens. The armored personnel carrier is clearly the inspiration for the cybertruck. https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/e0d0yc/teslas_new_cybertruck_looks_familiar/

Every time Musk tries to pretend he's an engineer and tries to micromanage engineering and design decisions we end up with things like the Cybertruck.

I read a comment somewhere by someone who worked at SpaceX, and they said a crucial part of the job was tactfully distracting him while he was in the facility. Otherwise, he would make nonsensical design suggestions and expect them to be implemented.

It saddens me our government has been funding this foreign apartheid bastard piece of shit this whole time.

I think this is the best take, just like Trump he's willing to say any old bullshit to get his way. I'm unwilling to call it charisma, I'd rather go with mythomania.

Musk has gotten his money's worth, and thensome, from Twitter.

Just because it went down in monetary value doesn't mean he hasn't benefited in other ways. He most definitely has.

This is exactly right. Musk is the Edison of the current era, and I mean that in all the worst ways possible.

He's just another trust fund schmuck with enough sense to pay someone smarter than him to do all the actual inventive shit, like Edison did (especially, but not exclusively to Nikola Tesla).

IMO, it's blasphemous that he owns a company named after Nikola Tesla.

Nope, he stole that from Edison.

Edison seemed to know it was important to leave science to scientists and engineering to engineers. Musk seems constitutionally incapable of respecting expertise.

I'm sure Edison interfered here and there, it's human nature to monkey with things.

But to the level of Phony Stark? No way.

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride!

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)

His mind is the film Underworld on repeat, next to a bowl of pizza rolls, a PlayStation 2, and a stack of cyber-goth monthly with any attractive girl torn out and taped to the wall.

Even Steve Jobs beat him to that with his reality distortion field

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

I you already know how that will turn out.

No Steve Jobs did that; while also buying a lot of it.

Money can't buy his children's love