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[–] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish I didn't have to see one almost every time I drive somewhere. They are such a standout eyesore that it feels like I see them constantly.

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago

    I'm terrified of them they're basically mobile knives. In an accident they could do so much damage, especially anything involving pedestrians. Musk has been caught faking safety details also.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

    I think they are very impressive looking iconic cars in a vacuum, like DeLoreans. Everything else is really unfortunate about then, but imo the eyesore part largely comes from the -very justified- cultural baggage and pretty much that only.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    Without the cultural baggage, yeah, they are interesting looking from the side and front quarter angles. But the back side undeniably looks like a trash can or dumpster. I was behind one yesterday with a pink/green hueshift wrap. When I was in traffic behind it, it just looked like I had a green dumpster in front of me lol.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Nah they're ugly af.

    If you wrap them (like you should), then you can make them look cool though. Some of my favorites that I've seen are bright pink, yellow, and various wraps covered in decals.

    Without wrapping them, they look like scrap metal on wheels.

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  • Even a paint job makes them look passable, ironically enough, and I'm what should be the target demo for cyberpunk murder wagons.

    I maintain part of the scam was always trying to push the cost of painting the things on the consumers. It's not like it's new information that steel rusts...

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Maybe because it can't survive a trip to the carwash

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  • [–] 28 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I know I shouldn't judge people without getting to know them but every time I see a cyber truck, I immediately think that the owner must be a gigantic douche canoe.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    by the time the cybertruck started delivering, all pretense of who its maker really was was gone. no longer could you think of him as "just the electric car guy who was in the MCU that time and likes posting memes." It was ABUNDANTLY obvious that he was a fascist boot heel. i can see any tesla on the road but the cybertuck and the model Y and rationalize that someone bought it without knowing, or sold it at a steep loss to someone who just needed a car. but the two newest models in the lineup? those directly funded fascism

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  • [–] 102 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    Capitalism turning electric vehicles into a horrible, unproductive, ugly symbol of right wing fascism is wild as shit to see in my lifetime.

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    [–] 58 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Never been able to be sold outside of the US, including Europe or Asia because it would never pass the safety test, says it all.

    It also says something about the American safety tests and laws. Americans are so afraid of Chinese cars that pass all safety tests but this unsafe monstrosity roams the streets?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago

    Not only does it fail to pass basic safety tests it's also too heavy to drive on a normal licence in pretty much all the countries of the world. It weighs so much that it qualifies as a truck, not a pickup truck, a six wheeler. It's so heavy it has to take alternate routes around old bridges.

    Even if it was legal in Europe, it'd be such an inconvenience to drive that no one would want one.

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    [–] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    It's bad... But the Pontiac Aztek was a thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    But the Aztek was the first crossover. Part car, part SUV. The world didn’t know they wanted it yet. Now almost every vehicle is either a truck or a CUV. I can’t see what is going to be redeemable about the CT. Maybe electric pickups will take off among the Tradies, but CT wasn’t even first there.

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