• Victor@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    ngl the front bit of a black cyber truck looks kind of dope. But all of the rest of it still looks like hot garbage.

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      13 days ago

      But reverse. It starts falling apart when you get to the windshield lol

      I think it looks the worst when looked from the side.

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      13 days ago

      The hood/windshield slope kinda reminds me of circa 2005 Lamborghini Gallardo, and that was a cool looking vehicle.

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      13 days ago

      I really liked the Cyber Truck design.

      Modern cars are so similar now they’re all massive and bubbly, even the Porsche SUVs looks like something from KIA.

      It may be ugly but I’m happy to see something different on the road.

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        They are similar as far as I understand because they all want the same outcomes of the design : better aerodynamics and effective crumple zones to faculiate higher survival of the occupants in a crash (some vehicles additionally try to limit injuries with pedestrians too but less so in US vehicles).

        I do agree that we have lost some of the majesty of older variations of designs but largely I think it’d convergent evolution. To leave that behind you’d want to have a really good reason which I don’t think the cyber truck really has. Different for the sake of being different rather than innovative.

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          The Aptera has better aerodynamics. Mainstream car design is hampered by common assembly line production and focus group designing. There’s also a design for car manufacturers to keep customers within a certain brand, even if an large conglomerate owns many brands, they don’t want to risk a customer switching to a different brand(and possibly different conglomerate) as their needs change. This leads to what’s called “Badge Engineering”. The old Chevy Tahoe and H2 Hummer are basic the same car. All those “Jeeps” that don’t really look like Jeeps past the grill and could have just been a Dodge SUV.

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    13 days ago

    Expensive lesson, try not being a sucker next time.

    “Oh no my shitty car depreciated” god who would have guessed

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    13 days ago

    That one is not as bad looking as the rest but it still screams 3rd grade art project

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    13 days ago

    you can buy a brand-new Cybertruck straight from the manufacturer cheaper than Sledder is asking to sell his used truck.

    Wow I wonder why there’s no takers

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      The paint job is totally worth the extra 19k you guyse!!!

      The article says there’s a madman offering 50k cash for it. Poor soul.

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        Actually 50k sounds a lot closer to reasonable for a somewhat used car that currently sells new for 80k’ish. Of course, I’m saying that in the hypothetical generic car vacuum, not the actual “electric dumpster” reality.

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    Sledder also shares that over his lifetime, he has driven and sold over 40 exotic cars, and the Cybertruck is the one vehicle he is having the most trouble finding buyers for.

    Not sure why he’s mentioning exotic cars and Cybertrucks in the same sentence. Anyways, he was a sucker the moment he paid the extra $20k or whatever for the Foundation Series. He was never getting that back.

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    The Cybertruck owner listed his truck for sale for $89,000.

    The same dual-motor Cybertruck AWD variant now starts at $80,000. However, starting in 2025, the vehicle qualifies for the $7,500 point of sale tax credit. This further lowers the starting price to $72,500.

    Tesla is also now offering a $2,000 discount to anyone who applies a referral code when buying the vehicle. That further lowers the starting price to $70,500.

    LOLOL.

    Everyone expects top dollar for used shit these days.

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      This fucking article goes on 3 more paragraphs after that about how great the current offerings from Tesla are. Feels like the whole thing is just a Cybertruck sales puff piece in disguise.

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    Between price drops and the cybertruck recently qualifying for the federal EV tax credit, buyers can get a brand new unit for what this guy is asking. This early adopter paid too much and got a bad deal, but there’s no mystery as to why no one wants to buy at his asking price.

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    “can’t give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks.”

    A brand new AWD CT from Tesla is $79,990.

    Headline is clickbait. Seller is a whinger. Trash all round. Saved you a click.