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Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles

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I saw a black cyber truck this weekend. My wife and I both laughed. Mate, you can’t make it invisible by painting it black.
Such a hideous vehicle.
- You have to wrap the Cybertruck to prevent body rust.
- No no, they are not trying to make it invisible, Cybertrunk buyers wants the attention it provides, good or bad. The wrap is probably for rust and looks.
  
  Wait, isn’t it stainless steel?
What vehicles are worse than the Cybertruck?
- I mean, Dodge still makes cars.
  I actually couldn't find which specific models have had more recalls to date than Cybertruck (only projections for the future), but based on data from https://www.iseecars.com/car-recall-study#v=2024 , it's not looking good for Porsche or Tesla.
  
  Dodge against all reason and logic still makes cars.
  
  Dodge is a brand made by Chrysler, just fyi.
- Ford as a hobby or something issues recalls.
  The good news is they're pretty quick and responsive to fix their issues unlike Toyota which will wait until the NHTSA forces them to issue a recall.
  
  Toyota seems to be a pretty shitty company all around.
Aren’t most of these “recalls” just software updates?
- Imagine if every car was under as much scrutiny as elons tesla and cyber truck.
What are the 9% of cars that are worse?
- In a reasonably recent UK survey, only the Land Rover Discovery and the Volvo XC90 were more badly made than Teslas.
  Was surprised at the XC because the engines are rock solid, but apparently the electrics are fucking atrocious
  Discoverys have always been horrendously bad, and sorry, if you bought one you shouldn't be in charge of major financial decisions like that
- Little tike plastic reds
  
  Those are a good deal safer than a Tesla. You won't burn to death in a Little Tike because rescue services can't open the doors, or break the windows.
Most are OTA software updates. This stat is useless and deliberately misleading

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