There are some exceptions but for the most part people don't want to drive around in a super embarrassing car - ThreadSky

eve6.bsky.social • 59 days ago

There are some exceptions but for the most part people don't want to drive around in a super embarrassing car

Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous

- despite 1 million pre-orders, demand has evaporated

- Tesla delivered only about 10,000 cybertrucks in the 4th quarter

- this issue isn't production, it's demand

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eubie.bsky.social•58 days ago

Super embarrassing 💩 box

lpqk.bsky.social•58 days ago

I mean, 1 million preorders on a promised $35k or $45k msrp. I guarantee 90% of the people who would buy one at that price can't afford one at the MSRP.

doloresquintana.bsky.social•59 days ago

Exactly. Who wants to drive a car that looks grotesquely ugly and get flipped off by people on the road?

dfs4114.bsky.social•59 days ago

I mean, yeah. The body styling looks like a shitty 90s gaming mouse, and they apparently aren't actually all that great to drive performance wise. Plus there's that whole "bursts into flames" thing.

jedb.bsky.social•58 days ago

When we see one on the road, both my wife and I will point and laugh

dfs4114.bsky.social•58 days ago

I've seen a handful in the wild, and they're basically an advertisement by the owner as if to say "I'm a gullible schmuck!"

jedb.bsky.social•58 days ago

I sadly have more than my fair share here in the Bay Area.

dfs4114.bsky.social•58 days ago

Whole lotta Musk-pilled contrarian dopes out there, I guess.

jedb.bsky.social•58 days ago

Tech bros gonna tech bro

kramwise.bsky.social•59 days ago

Some say the cybertruck is still rendering

wolflawyer.bsky.social•59 days ago

I am an attention whore contrarian so I could be convinced to drive a super embarrassing car but I don’t think I constitute a viable target demographic on my own and also it would have to not suck ass.

richs.bsky.social•59 days ago

Turns out that “this warranty is voided if the truck is perceived” vibe is a bit of a hitch

legalminimum.bsky.social•59 days ago

My brother spent years driving a magenta Le Baron convertible with a white roof and even he won’t touch one of these.

digifox.binaryden.net•59 days ago

The thing about a unique and eye catching car is it needs to also have redeeming performance, build quality, or interior features. Otherwise it's a glorified parade float. The Cybertruck is fast but for an EV that's table stakes.

digifox.binaryden.net•59 days ago

It has no craft to it. Even a lot of mechanically crappy and quirky cars at least had a designer like. Involved.

mikeytsi.bsky.social•59 days ago

Dude had a Shadowrun car described to him once while he was hopped on ketamine and decided to build a production vehicle.

wolflawyer.bsky.social•59 days ago

Shadowrun? More likely Carmageddon 64.

chrononaut.bsky.social•59 days ago

Please don't insult Shadowrun 🙏

A runner wouldn't be caught dead in these cringe man-child toys.

cornlord.bsky.social•58 days ago

I had the burgundy w black roof. Shout out to the mosquito scene in Jumanji

legalminimum.bsky.social•58 days ago

This was the car he got to replace a green Granada that caught fire while he was filling the gas tank. We all felt that would be the end of life for that particular car.

tracerbullet.bsky.social•58 days ago

Everyone grew up driving a shitty Chrysler. They were cheap, and fairly dependable, or at least you could get cheap GM parts from Pep Boys and fix it yourself. Elon's shitmobile doesn't have any of that.

legalminimum.bsky.social•58 days ago

Not everyone. I got my first car in my 30s, because I lived in Montreal where we had functional transit and only street parking.

theogjt.bsky.social•58 days ago

No one cares about your citroen Canuck!!! HNY

legalminimum.bsky.social•58 days ago

First, you forgot the umlauts. Second, the better joke is that Citroën is only one letter off Citron, which of course is French for lemon.

mikeytsi.bsky.social•59 days ago

I had a Burgandy Escort GT and it was fuckin' rad. I really should pick up a XR4Ti some day and put an engine in it that doesn't suck.

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

That not-menacing or sucking-ass demographic!

ikissedmyplane.bsky.social•59 days ago

You are correct. However, I'd gladly take one for free. The way sales are going... Musk may just give them away.

plainoldchair.bsky.social•59 days ago

look you can complain if you want, but the Tesla Cybertruck is honestly the most astounding use of the SNES SuperFX chip's 3D rendering capability that I've ever seen

fascistsoftwitter.bsky.social•59 days ago

My civic duty is to openly laugh at them whenever I see them on the road. Over the top cartoon laughter I know they can see. I know it’s forced, but a small part of them thinks it’s genuine

msdanielle.bsky.social•59 days ago

I like what Will Arnett called them on the Smartless podcast: The douche identifier.

msdanielle.bsky.social•59 days ago

The target demographic:

aj.reznor.com•59 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/aj.reznor.com/post/3leueeda3kk2q

lmfsilva.bsky.social•59 days ago

Looking like shit aside, I don't think people want to drive a car so poorly finished. Imagine at a family court hearing someone saying "the last two times he came to pick up our son for his weekly visit he appeared with cuts because of the car he bought after the divorce, and I want full custody".

plainoldchair.bsky.social•59 days ago

I saw one painted matte black once, probably spraypainted, and it legitimately looked like a cardboard prop from a school play

lmfsilva.bsky.social•59 days ago

I really don't like the lines on most modern cars (particularly the cursed crossovers), but the Cybertruck is just unsalvageable as a design. It's like the cars I made out of scraps of construction paper when I was 10.

plainoldchair.bsky.social•59 days ago

It's not even really an identifiable shape if you view it straight-on from behind or in front of it (a situation that happens notably often when driving). Just complete dogshit design

bluedotfrombfe.bsky.social•59 days ago

Many were waiting for the advertised $40,000-$60,000 version and the stupid fucker couldn’t make that happen so he cut that version.

stuntgranny.bsky.social•59 days ago

I used to have to drive past the cybertruck factory in Austin every day; I don't know how much worse it's gotten, but as of August they were just parking unsold units in a field next to the factory. It wasn't even paved. Just sitting in the grass.

kwierso.com•59 days ago

I see a few driving around my area and I usually laugh or give a thumbs-down when I do.

The one I don't has a custom wrap promoting the owner's gun store.

tracerbullet.bsky.social•58 days ago

That person must be the biggest asshole in the whole county.

wetlettuceleaf.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's also cost.

I wouldn't pay $100,000 and lose my dignity.

codysoape.bsky.social•59 days ago

I saw a CyberT parked in my neighborhood the other night and I was so mad because I had just peed

harebrained.bsky.social•59 days ago

Also:

petersonchris.bsky.social•59 days ago

The AMC Pacer would like a word

elayaray.bsky.social•59 days ago

Yet, somehow driving a 1975 AMC Pacer would still be less embarrassing--even in 2025.

petersonchris.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's a much better car

elayaray.bsky.social•58 days ago

Ha! This is true, even by today's standards. The exploding car of that time was the Ford Pinto. And despite being more of them on the road they still seemed to explode less often than this atrocity. And you definitely couldn't get locked in if it did.

shesayssheshant.bsky.social•58 days ago

After someone asked, a guy on my town FB page was offering tours for little kids who wanted to see one. 6-year-old boys are apparently super impressed, probably because they look exactly like the kind of car a 6-year-old would draw. He's otherwise getting roasted alive.

dumpsterinferno.bsky.social•58 days ago

Apple Vision Pro on wheels

chimsquared.bsky.social•59 days ago

Yeah. Because if you are seen in one, the three most likely reactions are ...

1. You're a douche.
2. You fully support douches.
3. Hey Bro, you're my Bro, Bro!

chriskramerpr.bsky.social•58 days ago

I read the phrase “Deplorean” and now that’s all I can think when I see one of these puffy vest garbage cans

fooferahh.bsky.social•58 days ago

I watched a guy (I always assume it's a guy) try to park one of those things and it was hilarious. It was angled parking! I would give anything to be there when he tried to get into a parallel spot. 10/10.

vanchelsing.bsky.social•59 days ago

An $80k car when we can't afford groceries...

mattdoc32.bsky.social•59 days ago

waste of money too

camjones.bsky.social•59 days ago

I live in Maine pop. 1.3 million and I see maybe 5-6 a week. We love be embarrassed

oldpappythomas.bsky.social•58 days ago

Every time I see one I instinctively start laughing before my conscious brain even processes what I'm looking at. It's like that Thinking Fast and Slow book. I'm just wired to instantly bully those dorks, it fires automatically, then my brain actually processes what it is.

bearpawb.bsky.social•59 days ago

If it just looked bad there would still be a market. Some people like driving ugly cars. Hell I drove and loved a Honda element for years. But it’s so so much more than the looks lo

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

I especially don't want to pay insane amounts of money to drive around in an embarrassing, deficient, might just explode car. Like, have these people never test-driven a Hyundai??

I am in year 17!!! of a Hyundai, and I keep thinking I should replace it but it just keeps truckin'!

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

Anyway, fuck Tesla, buy a Hyundai. My goodness, what a solid, dependable car! Maybe instead of looking at Minecraft for style cues, Musk should try asking what people want?

Turns out we want a Hyundai.

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

I mean I painted a dragon on the side of my high school car, but yes, probably this is mostly true.

lemringtail.bsky.social•59 days ago

One of my high school friends had an '80s Toyota hatchback with Erlenmeyer flasks and "she blinded me with science" painted on the hood (yes, I helped) and that thing was orders of magnitude less cringe than a stock cybertuck.

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

Oh, I would 10000% more likely settle myself behind the wheel of a 1977 Ford Country Squire, butter yellow, fake wood panel, only half its cylinders firing, than a stupid "I'm a big boy now!" cybertruck.

Also I would like to be blinded by that science vehicle.

vulgarweed.bsky.social•59 days ago

In my high school's town (circa 1980s), there was someone who had a custom van with King Kong movie scenes spray-painted on the side, and huge plastic ape teeth on the grille. Nerdy as fuck? yes. Would I rather drive that than a cybertruck? OF COURSE I WOULD

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

I loved my Dragon Wagon. So geeky! Completely awful! I had minimal skills! Not sure what aneurism caused my parents to think it was a good idea!

But I loved it.

And then I went to college.

The younger siblings who inherited the Dragon Wagon?

Did not love so very much. 😄

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

TBF, we all drove cars we would have preferred not to. My older sisters' Mazda, with no floors and kinda no brakes? Not great.

My 1977 Ford Country Squire, operating on 4 cylinders but able to block 4 lanes of traffic if it stalled out? and maybe 4 mpg?

Not great.

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

My younger sibs had a Dragon Wagon, and a Firebird, so honestly, they can suck it, because sure, maybe their cars weren't prestigious, but they also had floors and brakes and didn't crap out blocking 4 lanes of cross traffic while everyone screamed.

vulgarweed.bsky.social•59 days ago

In the late 1980s I had a pizza delivery job driving a hand-me-down 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix that had been ridden hard and put away wet. last of the great 70s land whales. It was not in good shape and dripped multicolor puddles everywhere. I made my deliveries with a tape player on the passenger seat

brainmist.bsky.social•59 days ago

They built them big and terrifying. But my parents knew there was nothing short of a freakin' semi that could take out a 3 ton Ford Country Squire, butter yellow, fake wood side panels. Anyone who saw my tiny teen hands clutching that wheel (I was too short to be visible) had better move the fuck.

vulgarweed.bsky.social•59 days ago

I was only 8 years older than the car, mind you.

tracerbullet.bsky.social•58 days ago

Ok but you've described one of the coolest vehicles of all time

brettschaefer.bsky.social•58 days ago

Turns out that expensive and ugly are a bad combination before getting into any feelings about musk (which I have plenty)

superfly247.bsky.social•58 days ago

The line that bothers me the most is “…judge’s conviction.” Partly because the suit is lame but mostly because it uses the wrong word, it should be “… judge’s decision.” And decision rhymes better. Drake is so lame.

mattofmyth.bsky.social•58 days ago

Hasn’t been a single time when I spot one in the wild where my involuntary reaction is “fuckin woof”.

retromannyc.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's like the Edsel of the 2020s.

permabulltom.bsky.social•59 days ago

Also, maga hats are a way cheaper means to express the same political views

twothenumbertoo.bsky.social•59 days ago

A hat doesn't display the same commitment that a hundred thousand dollar dumpster does.

rhabdos.bsky.social•58 days ago

The more that get out on the streets, the more issues people are seeing with bricking and randomly catching fire. So, there's that.

terminalghost.bsky.social•58 days ago

There’s a Tesla dealership here, and they just have rows and rows of them sitting there, been there for weeks.

danmpford.bsky.social•58 days ago

I drove past a Tesla dealership on the highway at like 2 in the morning and I swear to you 20 of those thing were just flashing all their lights and honking. Great advertisement for the car!

jennifermcclelland.bsky.social•59 days ago

And I was thinking that if my car bursts into flame maybe I wouldn’t want the doors to lock automatically?

spamuel.bsky.social•58 days ago

Just every way to pick that phrasing apart makes it so much worse

quinnypig.com•59 days ago

The wiener mobile would be more socially defensible.

caledhwa.bsky.social•58 days ago

I smell another delorean disaster.

hazyrecollection.bsky.social•59 days ago

The wiener mobile is hiring drivers, btw.

tracerbullet.bsky.social•58 days ago

Uh the Oscar Meyer weinermobile is cool as hell

shebs-shed.bsky.social•57 days ago

As if daily driving an Oscar Mayer weinermobile wouldn’t be cool as fuck?

mercygrimm.bsky.social•59 days ago

A super embarrassing car that you literally cannot find a single good review of. It's been in the wild long enough that people can just actually see for themselves that they are trucks that don't really do truck stuff and also kill you when you drive them.

greglatour.bsky.social•59 days ago

Designed & manufactured by a company whose ceo is total an utter piece of shit

bind.bsky.social•58 days ago

Or pay $100k for a new truck that has an instant resale value of $70k..

seanqueue.bsky.social•58 days ago

I guess rolling down my window every time I see one and giving the driver the finger isn't helping sales.

fiz.bsky.social•59 days ago

Tesla is somehow uglier than the Pontiac Aztec.

doomfurby.bsky.social•59 days ago

This is offensive to Aztec lovers.

markvr1.bsky.social•58 days ago

Drive one of these people are going to wonder whether you write weird right wing manifestos and have a load of fireworks in the back.

spacebandito.bsky.social•58 days ago

I'm absolutely serious when I say I would rather be seen driving the car that Homer designed or the Steve Urkel clown car or even a Pontiac Aztec.

ghostgirl.net•58 days ago

Azteks were fantastic, at least they tried something different that met basic safety standards. Kinda horrified that that’s now something to be impressed by, but well, that’s where we are.

gabestur.bsky.social•58 days ago

I owned an Aztec, compared to whats out there now, it's boring.

laurensdk.bsky.social•58 days ago

Ok but Urkel’s car is super cool actually

seanqueue.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's an Isetta, manufactured by BMW, probably better suited for a golf course than the Autobahn.

horselessage.bsky.social•58 days ago

Ukel’s car was actually made by BMW/Isetta

jhguth.bsky.social•58 days ago

The Aztec is at least cool in a quirky way that the Cybertruck never will be

akw.bsky.social•58 days ago

I always thought the aztek was neat personally

shebs-shed.bsky.social•57 days ago

The Homer is unique, in an interesting way. The Aztec isn’t all that ugly, especially when compared to the Cyberfuck. And the Isetta is just a charming little rascal.

ryedog.bsky.social•59 days ago

Did the moral majority successfully bully the weirdos into not buying the sad Delorean? Is this a win for society?

chgordo.bsky.social•59 days ago

That's why I made my kids drive an embarrassing, very old Volvo wagon that came with a Judas Priest bumper sticker. Get it over with early.

dead2thecore.bsky.social•59 days ago

This is my dream car ❤️

tracerbullet.bsky.social•59 days ago

Ok, but you really only made your kids cool as hell

chgordo.bsky.social•58 days ago

I knew it as soon as my son named it the Priestmobile. I admired his confidence.

sigmundroid.bsky.social•59 days ago

I often play “truck / not a truck” with my 5 year old and I sneak the cyber truck in and not once has he said “truck”

tomnob.bsky.social•59 days ago

Musk took credit for companies he essentially just bought. Tellingly, the two things he actually contributed to were the cybertruck and twitter. It may be (long past) time for the Reddit bros to reassess

theramblerouser.bsky.social•58 days ago

I almost want to buy one and keep it in storage for when it's a collectors item and thus valuable.

Then I remember it's a bad idea even before the hurdle of my only owning like $400.

altiam.bsky.social•59 days ago

A ride's style mirrors its driver’s vibe!

7grifling8.bsky.social•58 days ago

Embarassebment is a option, safety isn't

strangebrickdroog.bsky.social•58 days ago

I owned two Yugos once, but I’d never be caught dead in a Tesla!

willgreenwald.bsky.social•59 days ago

Every time I see one in New York, I can't stop myself from vocally saying "Bruh"

kscott73.bsky.social•59 days ago

In Edmonton AB, my mouth literally dropped open and stayed open as it crossed the intersection in front of me. So F-UGLY. Bet the owner isn't enjoying our classic cold and snowy winter with that useless dumpster fire car now! 😂

gandalfthegrunge.bsky.social•59 days ago

Saw an old ass dude in a cybertruck yesterday and it really fucked with my head cause you look at that fuck ass vehicle and your immediate assumption is going to be a 35-50 yo in there

iamnotlarry.bsky.social•59 days ago

It looks like someone designed a Delorian in Minecraft.

fascistsoftwitter.bsky.social•59 days ago

Pretty sure a Jaguar 64 game has this same exact design

loblaws-balrog.bsky.social•59 days ago

Can’t underestimate how personally embarrassing elon is and the effect on sales. A Model 3 was gonna be my next car as recently as like 3 years ago. I don’t think anyone has tanked a company so thoroughly with just a shitty personality

squidproject.bsky.social•58 days ago

I don't even like the second-hand embarrassment of seeing them on the road

stephwhitemi.bsky.social•58 days ago

🤣 Same. The first time I saw one in Ann Arbor I was embarrassed for our whole town.

yeetski.bsky.social•59 days ago

https://preview.redd.it/1o46b1xaoer91.jpg?auto=webp&s=d3d744c212b94b7051ca499f40f4bc2868f40316

astralfrontier.org•59 days ago

A good car is like a good relationship. You should be able to get out of it on your own if something goes wrong, it should be able to survive rough patches, and Elon Musk has shown he doesn’t understand either one in the slightest

tracerbullet.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's because he's a super privileged little bitch who inherited billions of dollars and has absolutely no idea what real people go through.

hazyrecollection.bsky.social•59 days ago

I've driven many super embarrassing cars.

That I bought for $1k cash.

Only one ever caught on fire (Ford Taurus. I fixed it.) and none exploded.

twotone.bsky.social•59 days ago

Huh. Yeah, I guess overcompensating car owners imply the existence of... whatever the opposite of that is.

Never thought of that before. You're expanding my horizons.

kieranyap.bsky.social•59 days ago

The name also sucks

oldspace.bsky.social•57 days ago

The sales should be zero, but there is a lot more money than common sense out there.

heidi8.bsky.social•59 days ago

Were down payments required for pre-orders?

thekenchilds.com•59 days ago

IIRC only like $250 or something to get on the list.

redsoxredshoes.bsky.social•59 days ago

Got down to $100 before it was over. They knew most of those were never going to concert.

redsoxredshoes.bsky.social•59 days ago

*convert. Weird flex, autocorrect

kevinrsours.bsky.social•58 days ago

And it was refundable. The whole thing was structured to produce a list of names they could tout rather than something that would convert to sales.

heidi8.bsky.social•58 days ago

That’s the kind of thing that might irk investors.

thekenchilds.com•58 days ago

If you're investing in the automotive version of "Bored Apes" that's on you

kevinrsours.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's not on the top 10 list of things Elon has done that should irk Tesla investors and yet...

dukescabies.bsky.social•59 days ago

Yeah, because it's the real life Homer from Powell Motors...

pleming.bsky.social•59 days ago

Sales Guy- Ok, boss. Here's the pitch. What if Pontiac Aztec meets Ford Pinto...

Elon, pounds table- I love it! Make a million of em!

irishstar13.bsky.social•58 days ago

My 13yo son and all his friends point and laugh anytime one drives by them. MAGA can't handle being mocked by Gen A. 🤣

vulgarweed.bsky.social•59 days ago

They're overpriced, badly designed and dangerous...oh and it's also a fucking clown car. Not a fun colorful clown car, just a car that everyone who sees it knows is being driven by a clown.

nomadwil.bsky.social•59 days ago

I hear Tesla is relying on an increased demand by people who want to die in this vehicle one way or another in 2025

nosotros-sabemos.bsky.social•56 days ago

I told my granddaughter that it reminds me of some of the cars she drives around in on RoBlox. She laughed and said, they have those exact vehicles in the game. She doesn't like them either. Smart ten year old that she is.

boydpetrie.com•59 days ago

I was at Costa Vida and a Cybertruck parked next to me. I was ordering food and the staff was laughing about the "ugly car" in the parking lot.

I knew they weren't referring to mine. 😂