I saw one of those once at a parking lot during a vacation to the usa. I didn't recognize it as first, and thought someone pulled a joke and made their car look like a sardine can.
It does look kinda cool in person.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Not only is it not a truck, it is also not cyber. It just cheap tin can scrap on wheels. The design looks like something a 6yr old kid would draw on paper.
The Ford maverick is a nice light duty unibody truck. Also, the f150 uses an aluminum frame.
Wait? Is the cybertruck a shitty electric camino?
Edit: deleted second electric
This is insulting to the El Camino
EV Camino
Lego
I think of them like planets.
The Ford Maverick looks like the larger trucks in style but is unibody, so it is Pluto. Looks like a planet, considered by many to be one, but technically a "dwarf planet"
The Santa Cruz is Ceres. Round, definitely planet like, but harder to call a planet.
The Cybertruck is Arrokoth. Few would mistake it for a planet. Weird looking, misproportioned, and way out there...
Whistlin Diesel broke his truck waaaayy sooner than expected because of the uni-body.
You'll also break the frame if you hop on the hitch. It has a vertical load rating of 160 pounds and the frame is aluminum. No bending, just breaking. It's poorly conceived, executed, and implemented from top to bottom.
My Volvo has a hitch weight rating of 500 lbs
Yeah. Almost every car has a higher vertical weight limit.
This seems like a guarantee of failure for ANY actual use of the hitch. How is that even legal?
It can PULL more. It just can't handle much for vertical load. This is true of all Teslas. They are all aluminum frames. This is specifically for things like a cargo or bike rack. The leverage becomes greater every mm away from the hitch the weight is. There's some question of what a stress test would show. But the problem is there's no standard distance for those type of racks from the hitch.
Imagine a 10 foot steel bar in the hitch, and you hopped up and down on the end of it. If you weigh 200 pounds, you're applying roughly 2,000 pounds of effective vertical weight on the hitch. If you do it again only two feet from the hitch, it's 400 pounds effective vertical weight. What is the actual upper limit of effective vertical weight for a tesla hitch? Likely much more than 160 pounds. But that's what is put in the manual because they don't want to warranty the hitch because of the composition of the frame.
The real issue is that the hitch is attached to the frame, and the frame is aluminum. So it's not the case where you might bend the frame and could then have it bent back to good working order. If you put too much weight on a Tesla hitch, the frame itself will simply fracture.
I’ve seen teslas with a bike carrier mounted to the hitch… if one were to put two e-bikes on the carrier it would be at capacity or close to it weight wise.
So if I see one parked, I'm hearing I should go hop up and down on the hitch and then run away.
It has a vertical load rating of 160 pounds
Did literally nobody ever use the tow hitch to jump into the bed or something during development? How does this even happen?
Have you ever driven a Tesla of any variety? They were designed by people who clearly have never driven a car before in their lives.
Elon.
There's no way that barrel chested mfer is 160 pounds
This seems like guaranteed failure if it goes over nearly any rough road or rapid inckune/decline with a load trailer.
Of course the odds that anyone attaches a trailer is pretty low.
We should start to distinguish the two different styles of trucks by bringing back the term "pickup".
These smalls trucks can be "pickups" and the truck trucks can be trucks.
Back in my home country, we exclusively called them pickups. “Truck” was used for anything from box trucks to 18-wheelers. But the passenger vehicles with beds were called pickups, regardless if it was a Maverick or an F150. Took a while for me to adapt to calling them trucks in the US.
Yes please.
After reading your comment I realized I didn't really know the difference between a 'pickup' and a 'truck'. I found this pretty informative:
While I am onboard with this, it is funny that the article keeps changing terminology and uses ‘pickups’ and ‘puckup trucks’ interchangeably.
I never understood how the "X" was an SUV.
the x is for crossover, i think
In a previous post, somebody called it a name that will forever live in my head:
WankPanzer.
The cyber truck is a Ute.
This is absolutely a design decision. They won't tow, they won't go off the asphalt, they will mostly climb sidewalks and the only heavy loads they will ever carry will be the ones in their owners' bellies after family dinner at Olive Garden.
They are oversized crossovers with open trunk and that's plenty more than their owners need.
Reminds me of an old Miller Hugh Life commercial I loved. Showed an old guy watering his lawn by hand with nothing but a hose while looking at his neighbor’s new SUV (when they were getting popular). The voiceover says: “The only ‘off-road action’ this $60,000 monstrosity will ever see is if its owner accidentally backs over a flowerbed. A real man knows a station wagon when he sees one!”
Car classification seems to change all the time. As a non-car person I can't keep up.
For me this is a truck:
But all the other classifications also change all the time. In 20 years a Cybertruck lookalike is probably a limousine or a compact car.
That's a European lorry, American trucks don't have a flat nose.
(I am somewhat kidding)
That's clearly a Japanese truck.
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