Whenever I hear the body-on-frame snobs commenting about how unibody designs aren’t trucks I think of someone pulling up in a semi, looking down at your F-250 and saying “It’s still not a truck. Not even close.”

There’s also a paradox out there of “why?”

The way it’s going, I could fully believe that the Tesla CEO could be convinced to go along with a $24 million cocaine deal if a blue check on Twitter suggested to him that it was somehow anti-trans to do so.

A million times ^^^this.  It’s nigh-impossible to not have camera within 5 seconds of reach nowadays, and so there’s no video of this b/c this is a hoax and nothing to consider.  False report charges should follow if they cared enough to write them.....

“They’re like 8 foot, 9 feet, 10 foot. They look like aliens to us. Big eyes. They have big eyes.”

I remember Toyota had to a bit of redesign for LC500 as they want the front suspension to be shorter to accommodate lower sloping hood.

“every pickup that can haul more than 500 lbs has a live axle.”

They should just release it since the target demographic will buys and defend it to death anyways.

Look, it will come to market. Musk has way too much time, energy, money and publicity wrapped up into this thing. And it will sell initially. But I forsee it following the path of that other stainless steel car, except the CEO won’t be busted for cocaine. Securities fraud? Sure, but not cocaine. 

It’s funny how the whole design was based off of a priority to make it look a certain way more than the functionality, dependability, etc. I wonder if Musk just thought that people who actually use their trucks weren’t going to buy them anyway so might as well do something dumb. He wanted it to be different but he was…

Mechanical Engineer here. But not an automotive one (but one that went into ME because he wanted to be in Automotive design). The Cybertruck has issues that are new to Tesla.

For trucks there’s no good reason to deviate from known good designs. Sure, nobody remembers who Pitman was, but his arm still works good. 

You mock now, but you’ll be wiping egg off your face while eating crow out of the other side of your mouth when the Cybertruck comes out in 2077!

I wouldn’t get a Cobra. It rains here a LOT and that much power and that little weight would lead to me having to take a lot of spare pants to work.

yeah, EVs are in a weird place. Too long a commute, and they can’t support it. Too short, there isn’t a cost benefit. My total driving most days is 20 miles . So even with high test and the like I could drive a Big Block Cobra and use less than $10/day in gas. Is it worth driving a Big Block Cobra daily over a Bolt…

My daily driver is a 2+2 RWD coupe that’s under 3000 lbs. It’s comfortable, engaging to drive, and I’m able to do all the maintenance myself. Until there’s something comparable out there, I’m frankly not interested in a BEV. I don’t need 500 miles of range or a 3-second 0-60: 250 miles and 5 seconds, respectively,…

For one, I live in a condo building and there is no charging infrastructure. I mean, there is infrastructure but it amounts to two chargers for a 45 story building and I don’t even know if they work for anything other than Teslas. And then there’s just the kind of driving I do and why I own the car I have now. I only…

This is the most accurate and succinct description of the Toyota allocation process ever written. As a long-time Toyota salesman I'm currently explaining this approximately 487 times a day right now.

See the complete and interesting article from August on The Autopian.

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