The Pontiac Aztec has risen from the dead.
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At what point does it become cheaper to just have a W-2 menial stand around you with an umbrella?
I don't want a cybertruck and I think Elon is an ass, but it would pretty cool if you had a tent like this that didn't suck on a truck that wasn't stupid and you could hook the tent up to the climate control and have it vented through the tent. Like, winter camping, toasty warm, summer camping, nice and cool. That would be pretty baller. Is that a thing already?
There are a few different options that I've seen. There's a tent that comes out of the back of an SUV to allow airflow and a bit of extra room. There's also a normal sort of dome tent that zips around the hatch of an SUV, making your vehicle into an extra room of the tent, or maybe vice versa.
Sounds like an RV
I had one of these for my Avalanche, it cost $200.
Looks like Elon accidentally added a zero to his price tag and everyone just kinda accepted it.
Ok Honda, you see it right? 2025 Honda Element would absolutely dust this trash.
Clearly there's been a market segment since 2011 that still wants it so c'mon.
This cybertruck feels like it would be such visual pollution on campgrounds and stuff.
It's visual pollution anywhere. I cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone finds that style appealing to begin with.
Over-promise and under-deliver, that is the tesla way.
100%. That has been exactly my experience. There’s no question it’s a good car, but they always manage to set higher expectations than what they are capable of delivering. You can’t help but feel disappointed even though you have a great EV. It’s really soured me on the whole brand. I would never buy another one.
lol, wow...😀
Its a continuing mystery to me why people want these vehicle-integrated tents. If you want to go into town for a burrito, you have to break down your camp. If parking is only by the road that's where you sleep. If parking isn't level you aren't sleeping level. Your tent is exposed to road dirt and water all the time. They are way more expensive than a regular tent. They are locked in to one vehicle. They make your gas mileage worse. They are hard to install and remove.
If you could have HVAC in the tent then ok. But sounds like that isn't a thing here either.
I don't get the truck bed tents, personally. I guess they might have their use cases for hunters or something who are taking their truck out to the woods anyway, crashing overnight, and getting up at the crack of dawn to shoot Bambi and go home. Or something. But otherwise I don't see the appeal over just using a regular old tent, which will be both cheaper and considerably more versatile or doing as we used to do and just put a cap on your truck, and throw an air mattress in the back. The cap-and-mattress plan also has the advantage of not needing an actual camp site or anywhere to even put down stakes for a fly; you can just stop in any damn fool sandy/muddy/rocky/wet/paved location you like and there you go.
I almost bought a rooftop tent a few years ago. I was in Snoqualmie in the pouring rain at dusk, because Seattle, just crashing there after driving across the country before moving on the next morning. The guy at the site next to me rocked up with an Xterra with a rooftop tent on it and just folded the thing out and climbed in. Meanwhile I was out there getting drenched working on hammering my tent stakes into the damn hard packed clinker they dump all over the camp sites there. At that exact moment I did not hate any person on earth more than I hated that motherfucker and his rooftop tent.
Well I have a hard shell RTT (Autohome) that I love. Gets me off of the ground on a memory foam mattress and it's well insulated. Very little hit to mileage. I've used it on my Jeep Rubicon and now on my Rivian R1S. Takes less than 2 minutes to pop up and I don't have to worry about wild animals (I camp in bear/mountain lion territory).
But I agree this thing is ridiculous. I read someone else called it a Cyberdiaper lol.
I guess if you were going for that post-apocalyptic mad max vibe the cybertruck offers then this is the perfect accessory!
Really looks like someone made a makeshift shelter out of trash bags over the shell of a wrecked old shitty truck.
Well to be honest, the advertised tent looks like Snow White's Coffin to me...
If it cost like $75 max that's within realms of sensibility. If I bought that thing for 3000 I'd probably die from embarrassment. It's like an advertisement for how gullible you are.
I mean, these people did already buy cybertrucks...
Ebben Eastern Germany had a better solution: https://vezess2.p3k.hu/app/uploads/2016/07/trabi-700x467.jpg
The actual product bows at the top. Their entire back half of the truck is flat, wouldn't a lightweight hardtop would be a much better choice over tent poles across the roof?
Especially if they're going for looks.
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It would be easier to match the angle of the open tent to that of the front of the truck. (Although even the render doesn't match it, so maybe they want the extra angle).
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They already lose several inches in horizontal space, they could fit a metal prop in there as a redundancy to support the top.
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Could add a large plexiglass tinted window in the hardtop.
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It would look a lot better when closed into the bed.
And here I was thinking all of Elon's fanboys carry a permanent tent anyway?
You can see the awful, misaligned panel gaps in those photos.
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