I bought one and its the best car I've ever had. Event though I was never a "truck" buyer it checked off all my needs: - space for wife, car seats + another adult when needed - haul around my kids, 4 bikes, skis, camping gear, etc. - drives itself - we do a ton of road trips - luxury - electric, tired of going to gas stations
Wasn't another car on the market that checked those boxes.
Have you ever driven one? They are amazing to drive.
I own a station wagon, a minivan, a pickup truck and a hatch (and my spouse drives a boring crossover). I completely understand why "buy a crew cab truck" has become the norm for people who want to just write one check a month to cover every use case.
Additionally, frequent "truck" usage is an absolute menace on wagon/minivan interiors.
People think they want a pickup truck, or an SUV, or a Cybertruck, but what they really want is a hybrid Toyota Sienna.
It was trivial to do this back before foldable seats were standard.
You can fit at least two bikes in just the shitty "trunk" space of your average minivan.
Every van ever made has more cargo space than the Cybertruck.
Like a hatchback, but much bigger.
That's one bike, with only 3 available seats and the front tire taken off. How would you do 4?
On top of that, every Tesla I have driven is poorly built. Ugly rattly plastic, bad panel gaps from the factory, factory paint not even matching, poor UX with everything jammed into the touch screen (lmao gotta go 4 levels deep in the UI to pop the glove box, unless they shipped a change for that). The brake pedal feel like stepping on a hard brick. No feel. Nothing. The drive by wire steering is like driving a 2005 nascar sim with no force feedback.
I could go on, they are objectively bad cars and for those who don't know cars and just want tech.
Literally most SUVs will tick most of these boxes at a significant discount.
"most of these boxes" - I need all.
Outside of "drives itself", I fail to see how much of what you described is unique. Seems very ordinary.
Buyers who got an expensive and gaudy pile of shit will never want to admit their pile of shit doesn't smell to themselves.
[x] $94K and $52K deprecation in the first 5 years.
I am not a Tesla the car hater, if only this monstrosity wasn't all sharp angles, otherwise to each their own.
When I go biking and snowboarding with my idiot friend that owns a Cybertruck, we have to use my Outback to haul the gear because it won't fit in his lemon.
The CT has less usable space than the average crossover SUV.
https://chatgpt.com/share/69fe71ad-7f48-83e8-8633-d628632c71...
And you def need to hang surfboards and bikes out the back in other trucks.
You can try and claim Tesla's self-driving features are great and work 100% of the time, I suspect most people here know that is FUD and there is ample evidence that Tesla "FSD" is certainly no better than competitors and is arguably worse.
I have a friend with a CyberBeast and a friend with an F150-Lightning. The acceleration on the CyberBeast is absolutely magnificent and FSD is very capable. However as a truck, the frunk on the F150 is way more useful. The F150 is a better truck, but I'd say the Cybertruck is really good big weird car.
From my perspective, the only self-driving system I trust my kids with is Waymo.
If you’re answer is fsd is safer for your kids then fine, you choose to trade off some (maybe marginal safety) in order to not support a company you don’t like. I understand that. If your answer is that hand driving is safer, then I don’t know how to convince you otherwise because having used it and seeing the published data it’s so much obviously safer than me driving. And I’ve been driving for 30+ years
I believe I am much safer than FSD.
The vague bullshit safety “data” they release is extremely unconvincing, particularly from a company known for lying.
Is that clearer?
I personally don't like the cybertruck and wish they made something much closer to Rivian, but getting upset about a product you don't like is a small man ting
Right...?