3 strongly worded letters and you get a official reprimanded. 3 reprimandeds and you get a written warning. And you don't even want to know what happens when you get 3 of those, a public denouncing of your actions.
Protip: Stick the cards on the passenger side rear-view mirror.
That way the driver won't notice them at first until they want to start driving, and then they have to get out of the car and walk around it to take it off.
I got one of these once and I thought it was hilarious because I drove a tiny Toyota Corolla at the time and I was parked in my normal work spot. I think it was from a douche who was parked in front of me, ironically in a giant pickup truck. I worked next to a PetsMart so I’m thinking they weren’t able load something into the back of their truck since they were backed into the spot. I kept that card for years and finally got rid of it when I got a new car. Ahh memories 😆
Unpopular opinion - I like the look & the idea of the Cybertruck. I think it’s a cool looking vehicle. I like the design and the concept of an edgy light-duty electric pickup truck.
I’d never buy one - they’re too expensive, have way too many issues, and Musk is a fucking chode. But I take issue with people who call it “ugly.”
Personally, I think most “traditional” pickup trucks are ugly. The F150, Ram, Silverado? Those are at the very best - boring. They’re definitely not attractive. At least the Cybertruck is a fresh concept for a pickup.
I recently bought a Hyundai Ioniq 5. It shares a couple design elements of the Cybertruck- simple polygons, angular, sharp edges. Obviously not nearly as extreme, but if a more reliable & less shithead-led company released a wildly / surreally designed vehicle similar to the Cybertruck, I’d consider it.
Granted. Rack that up to “too many issues” as I said. The Cybertruck can still have the clean (less rounded) edges without being sharp enough to cause harm. There are other cars with “angular” designs which don’t cause bodily harm.
If you typed out the description of the Cybertruck, I'd like it. A DeLorean crossed with an Chevrolet El? EV? Stainless Steel(Although aluminum body would be better for weight)? Sign me up.
Problem is, that's not what it looks like. It looks like a low poly render of a boring suv. And like an suv, you can't really do truck things with it. Say what you want about the appearance of a truck(and I don't like the appearance of modern pickups), you can tow with them and have plenty of storage space in the bed. Well, ymmv on "plenty", but it's still more then a cybertruck. If you don't need space or towing, just get a suv. I'd say station wagon, but they don't make those anymore.
A vehicle should exist for utility before it exists for style.
The SUV is really just a mini van. Mini vans got a bad rep, which I think is a shame because I LOVED my Honda Odyssey. It drives like a car, and has a 3rd row that you can actually sit adults in. Also, with all the seats down, and middle seats removed, you could carry a LOT. We fit two full sofas from Ikea back there. It was a tight fit, but it worked great.
For whatever reason people don't like the idea of mini vans, so they made the suv because TRUCK. We replaced the Odyssey with a Subaru Ascent, and that is great too, it has all wheel driving, and a lot more bells and whistles than the old Odyssey. The 3rd row is not nice to sit in as an adult though, and I miss the sliding doors, those were great in tight spaces.
They just need to put more sliding doors on these vehicles they expect people to get in and out of the back seats.
I do like the idea of shaking up established notions when it comes to aesthetics, design, and functionality. The Cybertruck really is a concept car that actually made it to production - you just don't see that.
That said, I greatly dislike everything else that has come from this. It's become this weird divisive thing, a political statement, a rolling monument to billionaire hubris, an expensive flex, and in general, saying things loudly at great expense to the owner on so many fronts. It doesn't even do its stated purpose - a pickup truck - all that well. All we need are statistics that indicate that these are dangerous to everyone else on the road, and it'll tick just about every "bad" box there is.
Back when it was first revealed in 2019 Musk hadn't yet morphed into his final chud form and the thing was to be priced at $39k. I thought it looked cool and the price was right, I honestly would have considered buying one given the federal subsidies.
Here we are, 5 years later and Musk is yet another of Putin's puppets actively helping Trump and the online legions of morons destroy the country and the Cybertruck is now $80k with no upgrades, $100k with.
I was never in love with it, but at this point buying it is a lot like buying a red MAGA hat. It pegs you as a particular type of dumbass, particularly given its reputation for terrible quality control. The kind of dumbass that spends six figures to trigger the libs.
Personally, I think most “traditional” pickup trucks are ugly. The F150, Ram, Silverado? Those are at the very best - boring. They’re definitely not attractive. At least the Cybertruck is a fresh concept for a pickup.
I know they're inherently not very safe, but I've always wanted a stylish/futuristic cabover pickup, like the Dodge Deora concept:
I didn't think it was ugly until I saw one in person and walked around it myself... Something about it feels so wrong, like they dressed up a junker with big metal panels for a 90s sci-fi prop. It's unnecessarily bulky.
I'm big on the form-follows-function mindset of beauty for stuff like cars and this one seems like Elmo's son drew a car in markers and he said "FIT A VEHICLE IN THIS SHAPE"
Actually, my main takeaway wasn't "this thing is ugly" - it was "this thing looks fuckin dangerous"
I thought they looked cool when first announced but two things changed since then: I saw them from more than just the best angles (look dumb AF from most angles) and also musk showed everyone he's a shitrat. Both are good reasons to hate these garbage vehicles
Well, unpopular it is.
I saw once a picture of two Cybertrucks in a desert and the first thing that came to mind was an 80s low budget sci fi movie scene.
I don't follow trucks, so this was the first I heard of the Alpha-T. Would definetly take that over the Cybertruck.
Here it is for anyone else not familiar. It may have been a bit much for 2001, but in the 2010s with the Total Recall and Blade Runner remakes, this would've fit in great!
If it was a little tiny electric car like a Nissan Leaf that was 'edgy' and didn't have Elon as CEO I could totally see myself getting one.
It still looks cool, just costs too much, doesn't deliver, and has Elon at the controls. Cringey, but cool.
Neat concept, but even from design and then seeing them now in the real world: cybetrucks looked to me like a car that a ragtag bunch of undergrad engineers made from welding a bunch of metal panels together.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What is ugly to others, may be beautiful to you.
I've been told that I love ugly cars. Like the Pontiac Aztec, the Subaru Baja, and the Honda element. You'll find people either love or hate them, but I commonly love the cars that most people find polarizing. And the cyber truck is indeed one of the polarizing cars that I like too.
I had to look up those three cars and they're all pretty basic. They shouldn't be polarizing at all. If you want something out there and modern, the Aptera's shape is purely dictated by aerodynamics.
Based on your message, the reason why you love them is because so many people hate them aka polarizing. This is real-world edge lord crap. If you truly loved em, you’d say why you love them that goes beyond just being the opposite of the majority for the sake of it.
IIRC it doesn't do the pickup thing all that well, other than that the purpose of pickups nowadays is mostly as a status symbol. It's kinda surprising, I live in a wealthy mountain town full of electrics but have only ever seen one (1) cybertruck in person.
I have seen more of them in LA, but it doesn't look like the number is increasing.
I have regular path when walking daily. And there's one person who has model 3, and past year I saw cybertruck showing up there too. First I saw it there connected to charger sometimes it was gone, looked like it was used.
Last month I saw it just covered, for some time and last 3-4 days it is gone. Either the owner went somewhere for a longer trip or he sold it.
The truck is expensive and didn't deliver on its promises, so I think it only became a statement, status symbol, tool to grab attention of others, but at least with the last one it is often getting not the attention the owners desire.
I think right now it is a very expensive MAGA hat.
These things won't be on the road by the end of this year. They'll either fall apart, get wrecked by the people that own them, lit on fire for the insurance money, or completely recalled.
This is photoshopped, which isn't inherently bad for a comedy group but definitely weird for having been supposedly posted to a cyber truck Facebook group.
Idk, there's some odd alarms going off in my head from this image.
That's a really bad photoshop job right there. Look at the thumb outline. The lighting of the card doesn't match the scene either. The light source is in the wrong place.