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That "truck" is truly one of the dumbest designs I've ever seen. It's right there with the "DeLorean" and uglier than the "Edsel".

You can't repair a dent in stainless steel, or even a scratch in it. So if it's actually used as a "trunk" it's going get ugly very fast and that's going to kill it's resale value.

It's comparable to the "HUMMER" in that it is a "Status Symbol" that will lose it's luster very quickly and it's value on the resale market will tank hard after just a few years.

Not to mention it will burn your skin like a frying pan on sunny hot days if you touch it.

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Well, you'll be able to tell which ones have been in crashes easily, due to the stainless steel showing dents and scratches. Deloreans which have had accidents nearly always get painted with paint in order to conceal the damage and its correction using filler, so it's a good bet that cybertrucks will show up in many different colours. It'll be interesting to see which colours people choose on the blank slate of stainless steel

> That "truck" is truly one of the dumbest designs I've ever seen.

Then don’t buy one.

That's probably the best advice you've ever offered here. Thank you!

Looks aside - has anyone discussed how it drives? The only thing I’ve seen about it has been videos showing the Cybertruck hitting things…

Can you link to one such video?

I’m looking forward to mine, and my Model S is getting long in the tooth with 100k miles on it. It might not be mass market successful, but it’s bold, and Tesla is successful enough to try projects like this. Not so much if you’re a legacy automaker like Ford or GM with a balance sheet holding on for dear life.

Or it will last 10M miles as a workhorse for people who don’t care about dents and scratches

The more uglier, cheaper and more repairable and open source it is, the more successful it will be

Being ugly doesn't make it reliable. Maybe that's a tradeoff that sometimes happens but AFAICT everything about Cybertruck design is to look different and cool to the CEO and his fans, who I don't doubt will rush to buy them to handle their rugged drives to the office and back. The question is how many fans are left because I really doubt anyone else wants one of these.

> The more uglier, cheaper and more repairable and open source it is, the more successful it will be

Maybe I'm out of the loop but none of that (except maybe uglier) seems to applies to the cybertruck?

Are cheap and easily repairable and 10 million miles lifetime advertised features and I'm just unaware?

> cheaper and more repairable and open source it is

I would bet it is the antithesis of all those things.

None of that gives Tesla the recurring revenue that they clearly seek.

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