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Please simplify the exterior a la the Cybertruck. Modern trucks are ridiculous with their impractical, ornate, exteriors.

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Ram's goal is to get current truck buyers to buy an EV. That is not an easy task. Making the truck look entirely different from every other truck on the road isn't a great way to do that.

> Ram's goal is to get current truck buyers to buy an EV. That is not an easy task.

True. Especially since the Ram brand's thing is a bigger and higher hood than anybody else. You can't see anything at ground level closer than about 20 feet. In an electric, there's nothing under the hood, but there's still that huge hood up front.

> Please simplify the exterior a la the Cybertruck. Modern trucks are ridiculous with their impractical, ornate, exteriors.

Imagine thinking the Cybertruck isn't ridiculous.

I still unironically love the shape of the Cybertruck, even if I think it probably won't be that great as a work truck (which would be why I buy it - have a cab-chassis ute now for general "put a half ton of gravel in the back" use).

Like it's just so weird and different.

I am not sure what do you mean by impractical and ornate? Almost every feature is carefully planned and unless it provides aero or some other benefit, it is generally considered wasteful and unnecessary. that being said, it isn't a minimalist kind of a vehicle.

Most ornamental details, I'd guess, are superfluous -- but isn't the general shape of most vehicles driven by crash tests?

The Cybertruck is the ugliest vaporware since the Phantom gaming console.

It would fit in just fine if we lived in a Minecraft world.

.. and unique ability to make every pedestrian/ cyclist / other soft target simply disappear from sight.

In case it wasn't clear I took a jab at the horrible visibility of the tank like vehicles that the US appears so fond of.

The Cybertruck appears a lot safer than some of these behemoths.

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