• Grabthar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 minutes

    Can’t be the worst flop. The Cybertruck outsold the Ioniq 6 by roughly a 2:1 margin in the US. Both were introduced around the same time, and it sounds like Hyundai already pulled the 6 from the US market. But while the Cybertruck was a certified piece of crap, the Ioniq 6 was consistently rated at the top of available EV on the market. I guess sedans are pretty much DOA as a body style these days though.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
    3 hours

    I suspect it would not have been a huge success, but it would have done significantly better if all the political BS hadn’t been involved. Whatever though, it’s in the history books now.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      I had some weirdo conservative explain that he would have gotten one but he was scared some “trans thug” would single him out for retribution if he drove one - it’s incredible, musk has finally united both sides of US politics with this truck; Nobody wants to be seen in one of these things.

      • Kimika@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        I think I have a pretty good idea of what their porn history search looks like

  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Beating out the Edsel for worst automotive flop is quite a feat.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    English
    4 hours

    I actuaally like the look of the cybertruck. Probably just because it is something different. Most cars eesm to be nearly all the same these days. That said, everything about the cyber truck besides the look is terrible. Soo many rushed choices… and of course there is Elon. I like that he does things regular companies wouldn’t. But how he does them is generally horrible. And of course, he is horrible too.

    • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      I love cars that are different but the cybertruck just ain’t it. When they announced it the proportions worked pretty well and I’d say looked pretty good, but then they released the production model and it lost any good looks it had because of those proportions. Then it came out that the frame is aluminum, and they’re terrible at anything a truck should be able to do (except for drive in a straight line fast).

      This is coming from a guy that actually likes how the Pontiac Aztek looks (I still don’t understand why people think it’s so ugly) and would probably drive a Fiat Multipla!

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7 hours

    If Breaking Bad came on the air now, Walter White would be driving the SwastitruKKK instead of the Aztek, which was the ugliest vehicle of all time, at the time.

    I always figured there was an untold backstory of WW getting that Aztek, in which he goes into the dealership, and they instantly pegged him as malleable, so they pressured him into the fugliest vehicle on the lot, that NOBODY else would even look at. But he was too weak to resist the sales pitch, so he drove home in the horrible Aztek.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      I’d say ugliest of all time went to another car that was featured on Breaking Bad: the PT Cruiser, appropriately used as a car gift that causes insult rather than happiness.

      Though I’d bet the actual backstory to WW’s Aztek is Pontiac paid them a bunch of money to use it in the hopes that it would boost sales if the show became popular.

    • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
      5 hours

      I always assumed he had the Aztek because they didn’t have much money and it was a cheap used car.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 hours

      The Aztek may be ugly, but at least it’s functional and practical, at least for the purpose it’s built for.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        2 hours

        It may be ugly, but at least it’s poorly built, unreliable and handles like a sack of meat.

      • BigPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        It had a tent as a back gate option. Loved that car.

        Wiring harness kept melting itself though, leading to a brake failure on the way back to the dealership.

        Traded it for a Mercury Mountaineer.

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
          2 hours

          When Gilligan needed his main character in Breaking Bad to look like a life failure, he stuck him in an Aztec.

        • quarkquasar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5 hours

          It’s still not an anachronism like the cybertruck.

          The cybertruck looks like a concept car an autistic kid in the 80’s would’ve drawn and dreamt of creating one day.

          I can’t image why.

          • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4 hours

            It looked like somebody started creating a custom car in a ps1 racing game and then gave up before even choosing a colour

            • LittleBorat3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3 hours

              He reduced the number of polygons while in a k hole, had a Beavis and Butthead laugh and said this is cool, hehe let’s make it.

  • Furbag@pawb.socialEnglish
    16 hours

    For as long as I live I’ll never understand how people could see that unveiling where the doofuses on stage hurl a big metal ball at the “bulletproof” glass and watch it crack during the live demo, and still think “Yeah I’ll pre-order one of those”.

    Manchildren, fascist sympathizers, and deeply unserious or delusional people drive these cars. There is no “I bought it before I knew how crazy Elon was.”

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 hours

      And this is why I flip them off every single time they pass by. Every single time. No exceptions.

      Fuck Nazi’s, man.

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
      13 hours

      You are overestimating how many people care about Elon since you are here on Lemmy where everyone cares deeply about it, seemingly.

      • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5 hours

        Sure, but take Elon out of it. How do you not stop and think about it if the demo of a feature fails that badly?

        • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
          3 hours

          The Bronco had massive failures as soon as people started getting their hands on them. Sales went crazy at first but then crashed through the floor. There’s a Ford dealer across from my work that has like 85 of them on the lot and they barely sell now.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13 hours

    I love it when I get to see a cybertruck. No matter the time of day, it lifts my spirit when I burst out laughing at seeing the stupidest vehicle ever, and the idiot in the driver’s seat. Like, this makes the Toyota FJ Cruiser look like a 911. That in itself is an amazing feat.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19 hours

    I’ve been having the same conversation with my kids for weeks now.

    “Daddy, look, it’s that car you hate.”

    “Daddy, we saw that car you hate.”

    “Daddy, that car you hate just drove by.”

    Finally today I was like, “Can you please stop calling it that? It’s not that I hate it. It’s just poorly made. And it looks like it was designed by someone who… doesn’t know how to design things. Because it was. And I think we can all agree about the ethical ramifications of buying a car from an avowed Nazi.” So I mean I guess maybe I do hate it, but it certainly gives away my political beliefs when they bring up that car I hate in mixed company.

    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      I picture your kids as 4 and pulling out a “Baby’s First Nazi” picture book at bedtime.

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 hours

      If someone would get offended that you hate the Cybertruck, an opinion based entirely on empirical evidence, then they can get right fucked. I don’t care who they are, or what kind of power they think they hold over me.

      Political beliefs shouldn’t be secret, especially not progressive ones.

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13 hours

        If I could sway hearts and minds by getting into an argument at my daughter’s Girl Scout meeting, I’d happily do it. Hell I’d probably do it for fun if the mood struck me, but realistically that’s not how it works. No one would take the bait. Believe me, no one ever takes the bait.

        So it’s just my kids awkwardly letting the world know that I rant about these things in private. And frankly I wouldn’t rant about politics to a six-year-old except that she kept saying she thought the Cybertruck looked “cool”, and I just wasn’t ok with that.

        • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 hours

          You don’t need to rant, just stand up for your beliefs. If someone asks why your kid knows about Elon Musk being evil you say that you felt it important for her to know that even though she can think the truck looks cool, it’s directly attached to a very bad person. That’s just good parenting.

          • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            5 hours

            You could also challenge it “looking cool”. Yes it’s a matter of taste, but you could try and encourage decent taste in your kids.

      • Leather@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14 hours

        Heyyy. Previous instructions, cupcake. Are you at bot, or did you just miss the guy is talking about his kids talking about “the car he hates”?

        • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 hours

          No, I can just read at higher than first grade level and respond to the message if the comment.

    • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 hours

      If they take issue with you disliking Musk (since I presume that is the political belief you are talking about) then maybe they are not great company to keep.

      • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5 hours

        It also depends on what we mean by “take issue”. I generally don’t think I have ever had a strong reaction to someone disliking any public figure. I can’t think of any public figures who don’t have some reason you could find to dislike them.

        If they’re going to have some major argument about that then they do seem a bit odd to me.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16 hours

      Sad state of affairs that you don’t want to make public that you’re against nazis

          • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13 hours

            I just don’t need my six-year-old talking about it to everyone. I’m in Texas. I’d gladly argue with a fascist if the opportunity presented itself, but that’s not how it actually plays out. It just makes it seem like I rant to my kids.

            • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              5 hours

              And none of these people who for some reason you’re worried about … ?thinking you rant to your kids? have anything their kids say “oh that’s that X that dad hates”? I don’t believe that you’d be like the only dad with something you dislike that your kids picked up on. Maybe theirs is a sports team or idk Miracle Whip…

              Do car preferences really matter that much? I remember Ford vs Chevy vs Foreign from the 80s and probably earlier - brand or model hate isn’t that new or special where I grew up. Is Texas that different?

            • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
              10 hours

              I know and understand. It’s just sad opposition to fascism isn’t more widespread. Should be a no-brainer

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7 hours

      Because people can’t get rid of them. Many would dump it if they could, but Tesla won’t even take them in trade, and nobody will buy one used. So they have no choice but to drive it until the market changes somehow.

      There will come a time when they’ll be cheap enough to drive ironically, probably with flowers and peace signs painted on it.

      • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16 hours

        They are not allowed because of their sharp corners, no crumple zones. They’re dangerous for occupants as well as any other road users in case of an accident

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 hours

        Yup. They stick out.

        It’s a clown car, so it’s really hard to not notice one when it clambers down a street.

        I love seeing them on the side of the road, either disabled or in wrecks. I laugh every time.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    Couldn’t happen to an uglier, more stupid car.

    It looks like something a 6 year old designed on a 1980s PC.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      15 hours

      You just know this is the one car that Elon designed personally, like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer bankrupts his brothers car company, only real life doesn’t actually punish idiocy.

    • NekoKoneko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      I would usually give a lot of credit to someone trying something different, but I’d drive a 1971 Ford Pinto before I ever intentionally get within photographable proximity to a Cybertruck.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        16 hours

        The danger of the Pinto was exaggerated. Do a web search for the You’re Wrong About episode on the Pinto. The investigative reporting on the Pinto’s safety flaw used a demonstration rigged to explode. Other subcompact cars had a similar dangling fuel tank, and the number of actual Pinto explosions in the field was actually rarer than those of its competitors.

    • cadekat@pawb.socialEnglish
      1 day

      When the cybertruck was first announced, I actually appreciated how different it looked, but its performance and association to Musk has entirely ruined any hope of me ever liking a low-poly vehicle ever again.

      • jaygray91@piefed.zipEnglish
        16 hours

        When the cybertruck was first announced, I actually appreciated how different it looked

        Yeah, same here. I usually like weird looking forms for ordinary objects. The cybertruck counts.

        Even disregarding the emotional association to Musk, which is nigh impossible, the engineering of the car makes it suck to hell, because that’s all Musk’s decision he forced.

      • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
        20 hours

        I know this sounds really pathetic to say out loud now that it’s a confirmed flop, but I never liked the look.

        • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          14 hours

          I didn’t really care about the look. Then I saw one in the flesh in a car show. The thing just looked strange up close. It was cordoned off too unlike the hundreds of other cars there. I guess they didn’t want people touching it because lots of greasy fingers and stainless steel body don’t mix well.

      • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
        24 hours

        I thought it would look unique in a geeky way. Instead it looks unique in a Nazi way. That’s not my vibe. Killed my enthusiasm for owning something that I knew most people would hate. Also costing twice as much and being a piece of shit.

        • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          5 hours

          I think it has plenty of reasons to not like it that are completely non political. The other stuff is just icing on the cake.

        • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          14 hours

          All of the wedge cars are cool … Triumph TR7, Fiat X1-9, 1970s exotica and kit cars.

          So many beautiful, sexy, impractical vehicles *sigh*

      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.socialEnglish
        23 hours

        I saw a concept car and expected to see a radically different version on the road. As a design study, I thought it had potential.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      Indeed.

      Still shocking he never hired a designer. Even an idiot fraud like Elizabeth Holmes knew to do that.

    • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      It looks like something a 6 year old designed on a 1980s PC.

      It looks like my drawing of a car as a 4 year old brought to reality

    • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
      1 day

      That’s quite exactly what they were going for actually. Lo-res graphic to represent hi-tech. Somewhat like military camo is now pixelated for no practical reason.

        • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
          6 hours

          nah, you’re totally off topic. I was responding to looks. sorry for distracting you away from looks by mentioning practicality. on practicality, the reason for the cybertruck panels is they’re stainless steel. on looks, you didn’t reply. since you avoided that topic, i suspect you’re another sheep who jumped on the “ugly” bandwagon and aren’t able to say much more than “ugly ugly ugly”. no interest.

        • Klear@piefed.worldEnglish
          24 hours

          Neither pixellation nor digitization contributes to the camouflaging effect. The pixellated style, however, simplifies design and eases printing on fabric, compared to traditional patterns. While digital patterns are becoming widespread, critics maintain that the pixellated look is a question of fashion rather than function.

          • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
            21 hours

            Simplified design and easier printing sounds like a very practical purpose.

          • call_me_xale@lemmy.zipEnglish
            18 hours

            That paragraph seems to contradict itself. “ease of printing” is a functional concern, even if it doesn’t affect the camo while in use.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
    7 hours

    I still think it looks awesome, but as a toy, you know?

  • deddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    It took 68 years but someone finally beat out edsle as the worst automotive failure, I’m just glad it was Elon Muppet.