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"Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented".

Your sampling method is flawed. Only Cybertruck fans are approaching you. Most people aren't going to come up and tell you they think your car is ugly.

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Right, it’s kind of known as the incel mobile I think by most people. In the same way when you see a MAGA hat on the street, you already know a lot about the person before they a a single word and you do your best to avoid them but other people with MAGA hats will give each other the wink and nod.

In my experience that’s the closest thing I could describe to the cyber truck experience and how most people look at it.

The Jeep wave, but less bend in the elbow

Wow had no idea there was a name for this. I rented a jeep in Colorado once and noticed other people driving jeeps waving (peace sign) at me while driving to Alma from Denver. First time I've experienced anything like that. Think I've motorcyclist slightly wave at each other before. To be honest I'd probably wave too if I saw another miata driver in Texas, but that's about as rare as seeing a lifted Japanese compact truck.

Nobody knows what an incel is, other than the terminally online.

They know exactly what it is when they see it even if they don’t have a word for it. We could call it the loser mobile if it makes things clearer I guess.

But honestly, I don’t know what point you’re trying to make here but I’m not talking about language, I’m talking about the reaction people have when they see people in cyber trucks.

TBF when I got a Mach E and they were still really new I did get a bunch of onlookers come up just to complain to me about how Ford is destroying the Mustang name and EVs are actually way worse for the environment than ICE cars and that I should be ashamed of myself for buying into the globalist lies and it's just a symbol of everything in the world going to hell. Happened about half a dozen times or so.

I did also get many positive interactions when it was new as well. But boy did those random negative encounters stick out!

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