• cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Apparently Elon unfollowed MKBHD after he posted selling his Founders Cybertruck at a $50K loss and saying the Rivian RT1 was a better truck lol.

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    13 days ago

    My first thought was “Really? Even a chop shop style place won’t take it?” And reading it is like “Oh he doesn’t want to cut the price so much but might now” so yeah.

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    13 days ago

    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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    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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      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

      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

    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.

    Oh, I’m so sorry sir, it’s frightfully unfair that this particular transaction has not worked out as favorablly as you’re used to. Would you care for a sparkling beverage while Life figures out how to make itself better for you?

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    Expensive lesson, try not being a sucker next time.

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