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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] malloc@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I still find it hard to believe people paid money for this trash. Have seen a few on the road and it looks even worse in person. Almost convinced the few people I see are paid by Tesla to “show them off”

I don’t even know what the marketing pitch is for this thing. Middle aged Tesla fanatics with too much money than brains?

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

A fool and his money…something something…

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I watched DeMuro's video on it, because it's the first close look I've been able to get without it being marketing nonsense.

The tonneau cover is neat. It's like a rolltop desk cover, motorized.

Literally every other design choice is either stupid or dangerous.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The hard tonneau cover is often an option on most trucks.

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Motorized tonneau covers are aftermarket addons that add around 2k to the price of the vehicle, plus installation.

They also take up a not insignificant amount of space near the front of the bed with the canister.

Teslas solution genuinely looks pretty good all things considered. Time will tell how they hold up. People are usually 50/50 on if they like their tonneau covers or think that they’re leaky garbage.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My Internet education has learned (sic) me forums are a place to complain no matter how good the product is. Also ice publications love shitting on ev's any way they can. This however I'm absolutely believing.

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah the cybertruck is garbage, but forum complaints existing is a meaningless measure. Every product in existence has forums where you can find people complaining about the product.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unless that product is a Brother laser printer

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have had to perform a repair on my 13 year old Brother laser printer. I'm a little sore about that.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

I found mine in a bin ten years ago, bought a toner cartridge, and have only printed a dozen pages since then. What waste of money, I’m furious!

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

This was the first post I saw after seeing one driving the opposite way on the highway;

it's hideous

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How much longer until Tesla cancels this project and proclaims this model is a “limited edition”?

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Musk is too ego driven to let this fail, he would bet the company if he had too, is my guess.

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

CyberFucked

[–] Zier@fedia.io 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So the vehicle that looks like it was constructed after the apocalypse happened is actually living up to it's looks. This is literally a prop from a MadMax movie.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

It looks like a lunar vehicle that has a max speed of 12 km/h.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I still can't get over the design. It looks so aesthetically unpleasing and like something out of a dystopian future from a 1980s movie.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Total Recall would like a word.

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[–] Cjwii@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're gonna need to install the Foxconn nets outside their customer service call centers if they keep selling these trucks

[–] Chewget@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago (3 children)

DeLoreans were better quality steel and didn't rust in the rain.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Stainless steel even.

[–] fuckthepolice@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They were also made by people with actual industry experience. They sucked at making a product people wanted but they didn't such at actually making a product.

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[–] CluelessDude@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Some of them even traveled in time.

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Chewget@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I'm definitely kidding

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I just saw one of these fucking things IRL for the first time driving down the opposite lane as me on my way home.

It's bigger and uglier than it looks in pictures. I thought it was like the size of a Model 3 or there abouts. Shit was bigger than an Escalade.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

LOOOOOOOOOL

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