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I saw some Chinese company had done a reskin or replica of the cyber truck body but actually made it look kinda cool, like something you'd actually expect to find in a film.
It just showed what an abject failure Musk is, as it's the only car he had a hand in designing...
Oh yeah. I've definately seen some renders that make it look quite nice, but they do that by adding a bunch of elements to it like skirts, extended wheel arches, spoilers, light bars, paint and lower it to the point you can't use it as a truck anymore.
But then it also really stops being what it origionally was.
The idea that anyone used one as a truck, or that it could even reasonably be used as one is pretty laughable.
But if I was a man child who wanted a toy car the Chinese one at least looks less like a bin on wheels. https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/gacs-cybertruck-inspired-pickup-launching-in-2027/
I mean, most people don't use trucks as trucks.