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The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.
Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”
Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”
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Pickup? More like a let down truck.
Good riddance, neo-Nazi made POS vehicle. Send the remaining ones to fucking Russia.
good. this meane i can reset my reality to a higher resolution again
This makes me sad for two reasons, one of which might actually be posted in this thread, and that’s that it’s gonna make it harder to see idiots from a quarter mile away. The second of which is my own personal gripe, and that’s because I can’t sing the Cybertruck song anymore.
To the tune of the Spider-Man song: Cybertruck, Cybertruck, only driven by a massive fuck Cybertruck, Cybertruck, only driven by a stupid fuck
A “truck” that can’t carry 4x8 sheet goods is useless.
How can people find straight edges attractive is beyond me
That and those straight edges kill pedestrians, like they just cut right into them when you have that much force, it’s unavoidable.
Consider the average hood of a minivan. It’s a giant-ass vehicle. It could definitely kill people easily, but the hood is sloped, and the bumper is low, and all the corners are very rounded, making it much safer for pedestrians should a collision occur.
Yeah the whole car is a safety hazard
it’s different than all the other cars on the road, that is a big part of the appeal.
So are a lot of cars, for 100k or whatever that shit box costs you could buy or restore a lot of cars that look different that’s on the road
any specific examples of in production cars that are not just aerodynamically optimized boxes?
hopefully automakers will make vehicles like it in the future (vehicles with form over function and no idiotic safety features until forced by legal)
So much hatred at an object. I don’t mind it existing and kids think it looks cool. I’m not american and I dont get upset by vehicles existing. If you dont like someone stop bringing them up all the time. Its an obsession after a certain point. I drive a 2010ford flex with water in the rad fluid thing because its leaking and I cant afford to fix it. Why would I turn down a cybertruck if one came my way? Because a company owner isnt liked? I’d be more worried about you lot getting your hatred on irl and vandalizing the object because it makes you see red. Bunch o apes
I live near the guy. He’s trying very hard to turn my country into a corporatist fascist hell hole. He is a global leader in spreading violent hate against my friends. He and everything he touches deserves as much public shame as can be heaped upon it. People should be worried to support that violence.
water in the rad fluid thing
Is it at least distilled water?
Because that water runs through your radiator and engine block, you want all those narrow passages and thin pipes full of rust?
I thought they looked cool. I just hated everything about them and around them or in any way associated with them.
It looked cool in the ironic or retro kind of thing. Like it could have been from an 80 movie.
As a serious, professional and expensive car, it’s a joke. Like the car Homer designed.
Yeah, I think it looks good to people who would rather play video games than drive anything.
I’m not a car person so all cars look like shit to me. Not that I’d ever but one of my own, but that one at least looked appealing.
But again, car people will undoubtedly disagree.
They looked like shit bro
I mean all taste is subjective. I’ve said my opinion and now you’ve said yours.
I guarantee if you like the look of any mainstream car I’ll think it looks clunky and gross.
Yes coprophiles exist im aware
I’ll admit I was really surprised to see your account is 3 years old!
Anyway thank you for being a vibrant part of this community. Your comments are more interesting than most.
I wanted one until it was $80,000
Most of them sold for less than that, it was basically a failed tesla marketing campaign to make people think they were more expensive than they actually were. They tried some Veblen-inspired reverse psychology and it didn’t work.
RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly Absurd
Jeremy White
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Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”
Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”
Tesla has not responded to WIRED’s request for comment and clarification that the Cybertruck will no longer be made at all. The Cybertruck is exclusively made at Gigafactory Texas, as this is apparently the only Tesla facility equipped with the machinery required to manufacture the truck’s unique stainless steel body, which supposedly started to rust in some cases.
Despite whipping up a fevered number of reservations—allegedly more than a million according to Musk, who at the end of 2023 crowed that demand was “off the charts!”—the truck failed to sell, shifting less than 50,000 units in total by March last year.
EVWire cites Kelley Blue Book data suggesting that Tesla sold 11,586 Cybertrucks in the first three quarters of this year in the US, down 28 percent year-over-year, adding that Musk’s announcement post came about 80 minutes after Tesla raised US Cybertruck prices and paused new orders for the entry-level Dual-Motor AWD version.
The Cybertruck proved not only to be wildly unpopular, it was also beset by troubles before it even reached customers. In 2023, WIRED covered a leaked Tesla report dated January 25, 2022, that showed the Cybertruck had basic design flaws, and that the preproduction “alpha” version was struggling with problems with its suspension, body sealing, noise levels, handling, and braking.
In November 2019, when Musk stepped onto a stage in California to launch his new cyberpunk-styled electric pickup, he decided to demonstrate the strength of the “unbreakable” glass windows by hurling a steel ball at them. In what has now entered into public relations folklore, the demo truck’s windows smashed not once, but twice. Musk swore, then joked: “There’s room for improvement.”
There most certainly was. In April 2024, a recall was issued for the Cybertruck because its accelerator pedal pad could come loose and get trapped by interior trim, which had the frightening potential of pushing the car to full speed.
In March last year, Tesla had to recall nearly all the Cybertrucks it had then produced because a stainless steel trim panel could become detached from the vehicle while driving, blaming the problem on the wrong type of glue, a new adhesive “not prone to environmental embrittlement.”
Back in May this year, Cybertrucks were struck down by the wrong type of grease, which meant that their wheels could potentially fall off. In what was then the EV’s 11th recall, it was declared that the Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) Cybertruck Long Range model might have faulty brake rotors. In a notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Tesla stated that “brake rotor stud holes may crack and allow the stud to separate from the wheel hub.” Such a situation might have seen some RWD Cybertruck owners merrily driving along only to then be disconcertingly overtaken by their own wheels.
Musk even tried to get President Donald Trump to buy one of his Cybertrucks, creating an impromptu Tesla showroom on the White House South Lawn, no less. But, sadly, even President Trump must have smelt something was off about the truck as instead he shunned the pickup and opted for a 200-mph Model S Plaid in ultra red, clearly impressed with the interior, remarking that “Everything’s computer!”
At the end of 2024, Karl Brauer, executive analyst at car ranking service iSeeCars, told WIRED that he’d calculated that the Cybertruck’s six recalls to date at the time made the EV “worse than 91 percent” of all other 2024 vehicles.
Yet, despite supposedly being so unreliable, the Cybertruck did find a small but loyal audience. WIRED profiled a number of owners last year, all fervently in love with their vehicles, but who were periodically forced to endure insults and taunts that they were Nazis, perhaps referring to an on-stage gesture Musk made at the start of 2025.
However, despite evidence seemingly to the contrary, Musk claims he is killing the Cybertruck, not because of its unreliability and staggering unpopularity, but because he wishes to focus instead on Cybercab, an autonomous EV that is central to Tesla’s robotaxi ambitions but itself has had a rocky start.
Currently operating in Austin only, with a fleet supposedly numbered only in the hundreds, Musk apparently wants to ramp up production dramatically since he confirmed on an earnings call the first cab came off the line in February.
Musk sees Cybercab as very much the vision of Tesla’s future. The CEO has even said that Tesla should no longer be regarded as an automaker but as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company. “Cybertruck was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab,” Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill said on X.
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what is this, a recipe?
😂
Ahh just Firefox reader. Assuming there is a login / pay wall in front of the article as my Firefox on mobile refuses to load more than the first paragraph.
Thank you for bringing the article to where I could read it.
There’s so many child crushers on the road but that one is definitely one of the crushiest. Having fewer of them on the road is a wine for road safety, especially for everyone not in a car.
and also dangerous to drive. when i ever see a CT driver, its either asian or a right winger, or right winger pedalling thier construction/Trade business(as a decal). as for asians (the ones immigrated from asia, mostly chinese) are quite ignorant of drama, so they think anything musk, is something to flex about.
Someone had a cybertruck rapped for their business parked at a trunk or treat we brought my kid to last year. The guy looked surprised when the only thing that came out of my mouth was “ew”. It was my first time seeing one in person.
I saw one a while ago and immediatly thought of those old sardine cans
My 4 yr old said during a drive “why is there a garbage can driving?”
Asians because we know a good deal when we see it, but don’t care about politics.
I had to talk my dad out of buying it.
It’s so awkward explaining to Chinese people that Musk is 1. dumb as shit 2. a fascist.
So they are ending production of the vehicle nobody wanted in order to replace it with production of the vehicle no one will buy. Yeah I wouldn’t be getting into Tesla stock right now.
Why don’t they just make more cars the people actually want?
Cybercabs will be for those businesses run by other wealthy billionaires so they can shuttle
employeesexecs and high profilers around, overtake Rideshare companies, and can be sold in bulk vs consumers who’ve turned on Musk.Here comes the next auto industry bailout, T-Minus 10-12 years.
I think the model Y and 3 are still selling well. Im not sure how much variation you can really have with an EV considering most other cars are segmented by performance. Perhaps they could make a giant SUV or something but those people are already buying Tahoes, Yukons, and Escalades.
Tiny and cheap. Tesla has been saying they are going to make a small and cheap consumer car for this entire time and it has never come out.
The EV that people actually want, that no American company sells, but can be easily purchased in Europe and Asia, is a $10,000 hatchback.
the do serve the purpose of announcing a douchebag in the vicinity.
