Looks to be working as designed.
Like most of it’s owners, it has a hard time getting it up. No performance shaming!

If its not great for offroad, at least you can fit a lot in the bed for hauling stuff, like a real pickup. Oh, the tiny bed doesn’t hold anything, either? Oh well.

This video is illuminating. The Cybertruck acts like a vehicle with open diffs and no off-road traction control. Apparently, the Cybertruck does have an electronic locking front diff, but I guess Tesla is still figuring out how to make it work.

As the owner of a new Crosstrek wilderness this cracks me up - the wilderness is pretty damn good on desert dirt roads so far. Ill see what it does in the mountains come warmer months. Its no replacement for my Xterra Pro-4X when the going gets legit rough but for a daily thats also very good on dirt roads and basic of…

Here’s what their marketing department has to say:

It’s too long and too heavy to be really good off-road.  This wouldn’t be a problem except for it’s maker to trump it up like it’s the 2nd coming or something.  Anybody can take one look at this thing and make this determination.  Good thing it will never be used offroad by 99.9% of the folks that get one, which is…

There is a learning curve to be sure.

I can practically feel the pain of the buyer’s remorse setting in for these Cybertruck guinea pigs who paid full price.

Yes, but...no. It’s the 2020s and automotive engineering is taught in college and grad school, there’s nothing that’s hidden anymore. And Tesla, just like every other auto manufacturer, is free to purchase their competitor’s vehicles and reverse engineer everything they need for their vehicle.

yes, that is fair. and almost certainly what a sane and smart marketing department would have done - but again... here is Tesla doing tesla stuff.

Sure - but that’s why a reasonable, responsible, company will take measured steps and not market their CyberTruck as the ultimate do anything, go anywhere, conquer everything uber-vehicle. Hell - based on the ranges people are getting, their half-cooked release isn’t even good at the very thing Tesla is expected to…

No ability to lock the diffs + extremely rigid air suspension when raised to full height means no traction. Shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone except Tesla’s marketing department.

Like any other vehicle with an air suspension / off road mode, you lose most articulation when it’s raised to it’s full height. Except the CT seems even worse somehow, it’s like they pump them rigid.  Combine that with utterly terrible programming on the traction control and you get a big shiny turd off road.

I chalk it up to a lack of experience

For the last time, Cybertrucks are not for off-roading!

Because the article came from a Miami newspaper.

Build a car the size of a moon and make it accelerate like cannon fire. Of course people are going to complain about the most obvious outcome of those choices.

It’s sort of funny that we couldn’t help ourselves with the performance possibilities of EVs so we just HAD to make every one of them accelerate like a Lambo.

The EQS starts in the low $100k range so my sympathy is lean for Mr. Semel.

I did not think Floridians replaced tires until they were so worn they no longer held air.