It’s a truck… might not be a “work” truck but it’s a truck. Don’t like it don’t buy it… I’m sure there is an appropriate “truck” forum you can join and gush all over… but constantly posting on a CT forum after you’ve decided it’s not the “truck” for you just seems a bit foolish.
it is NOT anything Tesla and Elon said it would be when it came out except stainless (which now, four years later, is something Tesla is "educating" the consumer that Stainless means "stain less" not nonstainable.
And I am not arguing whether it is or is not a truck. It isn't.
There's a famous three dimensional artist. He can't do anything that you can't do. But he's famous because he works his audience. I saw him in person before he got famous, back when he still did two dimensional art "workshops" for rich bored housewives. Elon and his staff sweat the same sauce sometimes. But this guy is better than Elon because he chose art. Art is more bull than beef. The Cybernotatruck is too much "art" and not enough engineering.
if all the shortcomings that were created by the leaking roll top notatonneau cover had been recognized as being caused by elon's belief that there should be this stupid cover then this vehicle might have been an actual usable vehicle instead of a half-baked toy. The engineering fails because FIRST PRINCIPLES was never followed. period. That retractable piece of crap even looks bad. It does not fit the rest of the vehicles vibe. It's like piece of tape on a mirror. It has not been designed for Jack. At least no one has come out and said, "The Black rolling top looks so good against the stainless steel." hahahaha But I just had a thought... I bet it does look better when you pay another $4-7k to get a wrap that matches the stupid rolltop! Wow. Yeah. Tesla got it so wrong that to make the biggest failure of the Cybernotatruck look like it isn't an afterthought (when it was the main thought) the owner needs to hide all the stain-less. Wow. The depth of absurdity Tesla went to to keep that hideous rolltop.
It even looks like Tesla sabotaged the vehicle by putting that stupid rolling cover in the middle and then destroyed the entire back half of the truck just to keep it. That flat space behind the front seats isn't worth a damn. The seats should have attached to the floor just like the front seats. It would have been less new parts. It would have reduced costs. And then having those seat fold down just like in my 2008 Ram (which several other automanufacturers do so there isn't a patent issue. And then make the wall between the "Vault/bed/really a trunk fold out of the way. And have at the very least an optional stainless "Wedge Camper" that can be fixed to that area to make it into a van/wagon hybrid. That would have made the back area usable for a far greater number of uses than just an in the weather elements trunk. But Elon didn't want a van. Station wagons and vans aren't S3XY. He wanted to be truck manufacturer for real men, and not a van producer for soccer moms. SO now he made a big stain-less turd on four oversized wheels that get crap for mileage with batteries that aren't at the level he told us we'd be 2 years ago.
You know I can sit here and with my limited brain I can definitely redesign the cybernotatruck into a much more usable vehicle that would look better and cost less and get better mileage.
Take out that idiotic Rolltop and all its rails and storage structures. Right away that'd give you another inch in the bed or the cabin, and no telling how many hundreds of pounds reduction in weight and room. Leave the bed open for now. But attach the back seats to the floor like the front seats, More money saved. And design a couple of pop-off and on stainless wedges. One turns it into a station wagon silhouette, and the other makes it a squat van silhouette. maybe even a third that keeps the original shape but opens like a trunk (which is essentially what that rooltop makes of the bed). No one is going to ride around with the rolltop retracted. The bed is a trunk.
If (when) Tesla uses the cyberesque vibe in making a real SUV instead of this idiotic shard it will be phenomenal...unless Elon puts an escalator in it because he thinks it works. Sort of a Cyber X. And if he must, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt (like I did until I actually got the truth on the cyberTurd). Maybe a big freakin' Falcon wing on one side would be extremely useful. I can think of a couple of ways to incorporate it. When the wing is up it can have a tent overlaying it making an area you can stand up and change your clothes. etc etc.
But the cybertruck in reality never met elon's expectations. The cool bending of the HFS I get. That will be useful moving away from the cyberturd. Maybe that HFS will have several advantages when designing a real SUV (sans moving walkway).
