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https://www.thedrive.com/news/31157/this-is-the-official-tesla-pickup-truck
Who's ordering one then?
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That might just fail to satisfy pedestrian safety tests...
Ideal for the school run
Is it made of Lego?
Designed using an old Atari Battlezone arcade machine? Top picture even has the mountain range horizon.
See also the Bollinger electric ute. Drawn on a day that the French curve was left at home.
Bring on the Zombie Apocalypse!!
That looks like shit.
Sharkbait, seen elsewhere...
It's like making a Delorean out of Lego when all the best bricks have already been used up.
Exclusive picture of the first customer to place a deposit.
You can order one with $100 deposit
https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck/design#battery
Reminds me of that electric bike from a while ago...
Got to love the demo of the "unbreakable" armoured glass
It does look like someone smoothed out the Warthog from Halo, then set the graphics to Megadrive
think that pile of turd above has just secured countless new sales for Rivian...
Big Tesla fan, but I have to agree...
think that pile of turd above has just secured countless new sales for Rivian…
it's been abstracted
Where are you supposed to tie your dog up?
A demonstration of why cars shouldn’t be designed with straight lines 👎
It’ll have to be rounded off a bit for aero and possibly pedestrian crash protection but I hope it does look that mental. Too many boring cars around trying to please everyone look like Audis but exciting no-one.
He's been on the Blunts again hasn't he...
I thought it was a joke, im still not convinced it isn't given its Musk behind it...smoke & mirrors for a bit of publicity
I thought it was a joke, im still not convinced it isn’t given its Musk behind it…smoke & mirrors for a bit of publicity
I'm coming to that conclusion too.
Part of me thinks its hideous. The rest of me wants it and to tick Tron wheel package on the spec list.
I mean the model 3 isn't exactly exciting to look at is it? Its like a mid 2000's Kia or Chinese domestic market counterfeit Panamera.
The future is here! The one that was the future in early 80’s sci-fi movies.
I mean the model 3 isn’t exactly exciting to look at is it? Its like a mid 2000’s Kia or Chinese domestic market counterfeit Panamera.
I'm not sure if you've seen it in the flesh, but I thought the same until I did. It's no Dog's Dinner 25st Anniversary Countach, but it's not a bad looking car - It reminded me of a very tubby late RX7 actually.
I think tubby rx7 is just a polite way of saying distorted kia rio.
I kinda like it. What's the point of rolling a same-as-everything-else pick-up truck onto a stage? Tesla are actively trying to do different things, to break stuff down and rebuild it.
It's clearly not road worthy (those bar lights, no side mirrors) but it's pretty cool,
I think it's very retro, the styling, the font used on the lettering, the engine bonnet despite being electric!
dunno, not sure if it's a spoof and just a disguise or if that is their version of the ultra-simplified bodywork. Those panels could be dirt cheap to make, even out of stainless so then don't need painting which is again massively better for the environment. But, eny slight ripple from manufacture would show up.
Maybe they are very thick? If he is going for bullet proof glass then the reason for such simple panels could be they are very thick.
This, the Bollinger or the Rivian. My money is on the Rivian personally (and waiting for UK orders to open up).
I prefer the Marcelo Gandini original...
Can't decide if the window breakage was just a publicity stunt. Mind you they probably didn't need it given the styling.
No idea how that can be legal - re pedestrian safety.
Other than that - it's nice to see something different in the car styling world. it's always been one of the greatest disappointments of the design world for me - ultra conservative to the point of it not being design any more - more like accountancy.
I think it looks cool AF (seriously)
From the OP link... It does a camper version.
Now the true market is revealed. He's not trying to convert coal rolling rednecks, it's aimed squarely ar STW users.
Now it looks like something out of Joe90.
I lust after teslas, but that is gopping.
The Bollinger (which looks like an old Defender - not that that's a bad thing) is around £100k
The Rivian is around £60k
Tesla are touting £30k for the Cybertruck
The Tesla does look very wacky when you first see it, but then you post that Rivian and it just looks so BORING. Then I look at the Tesla again and I think, actually that's pretty rad! I suspect a design somewhere between the two would be the ideal compromise! 😃think that pile of turd above has just secured countless new sales for Rivian…
Did they use CAD software or minecraft when designing that?
I reckon they had it quickly 3D modelled last night and rushed out the launch to bury the story about SpaceX exploding yesterday.
And also - unbreakable glass - surely that wouldn't be allowed as it is a safety risk in itself if emergency services / occupants couldn't break it in the event of a crash.
It's the usual self-publicist narcissist Musk bollocks IMO.
Prototype xc glass I guess.
Want.
But I'll wait until the Tesla Coil car jacking defence system, front and rear rail guns and EMP mines are optional extras.
30k? Take my money now! Seriously if that design (or something like it, adjusted for regulatory stuff) is for real and its a truck with a 60kwh battery for audi estate money then I'm in. Sadly, I think it was probably a stunt.
If I can fit two bikes, a dig and a couple of kit bags UN the back securely and under cover, I'd have one.
If I can fit two bikes, a dig and a couple of kit bags
it looks like it was an archaeological dig......from an 80s prediction of the future TV prog
Automan is considering legal action
60kwh battery, utilitarian and for Nissan Leaf money; sounds unlikely, but if it was true, I don’t care how Fugly it is, I’d be on it like a tramp on chips (or white lightning).
He’s not trying to convert coal rolling rednecks, it’s aimed squarely ar STW users.
Elon has clearly lost his mind. That’s the result of a lunatic tech bro who has never been told no by his minions.
Genuinely intrigued by this (I know one of the designers BTW)
kind of makes me think of this concept car from a couple of years back:
and also a bit of this:
They've just done what Jaguar have done for years and poached an Aston Martin design.
How quickly would the fire services be able to get you out of a car with laminated glass and steel bodywork that is resistant to 9mm ammo, when the lipo battery goes up in flames?
but then you post that Rivian and it just looks so BORING.
Not being a ‘car’ person as such I’ve still actually desired to own a few cars at times of life. 3 to be specific.
7yrs old I dreamed of owning a Datsun 240z. Never did.
21yrs old I wanted a MK2 VW Scirocco. Got one in my 40s 🤣
51yrs old earlier this year I saw the Rivian pickup. Want. Still want.
I like it. Totally fugly, and you'd not cry if you improved its looks by giving it a few character scars.
If it's stainless panels, then no paint to worry about, and the design of the rear means you can strap on a few 8x4 plywood sheets.
a car with laminated glass and steel bodywork
Perhaps you can step out, leave your lunch on the front seat and press a button to heat lunch up. I mean it *looks* like a microwave...
The future was told.
How quickly would the fire services be able to get you out of a car with laminated glass and steel bodywork that is resistant to 9mm ammo, when the lipo battery goes up in flames?
Probably not that hard to do tbh though if the battery is on fire and you're waiting on the fire brigade to arrive and get you out I suggest you would be better making peace with yourself because that's not going to end well in any scenario.
I'd say it's as dangerous as being trapped in a car with burning hydrocarbons sloshing about, at least with the batteries you could insulate the cabin from the worst of it. Maybe with a toughened cabin of some sort?
At least onlookers, or you can smash the windows if need be though. I'm not sure I like the idea of driving around in an amoured box unless I'm actually being shot at. Any idea why the lunatics built it like this?
I came here to rant.
Tesla are touting £30k for the Cybertruck
I take it all back, before I even get to type it.
Cost - isn't there some mega tax break for trucks in the US? I'm not sure the $30k price over there would translate well into £££'s.
Land Rover:- look at our new Discovery.
Tesla:- hold my beer.....
I don't understand the haters. I think it looks amazing. I love it.
I also think the smashed windows was a publicity stunt.
More importantly looks invisible to radar....
Sneaky double launch:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1197886803799232512?s=21
Tesla holds emergency meeting to restore credibility by coming up with a better design.
How quickly would the fire services be able to get you out of a car with laminated glass and steel bodywork that is resistant to 9mm ammo, when the lipo battery goes up in flames?
depends how this court case goes maybe:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-driver-killed-fire-doors-model-s-trial-elon-musk-a9169691.html
That court case (respectfully to the deceased) is a load of shit. Doors on modern cars are rarely openable following a significant RTC, whether or not the door handles ‘self present’ or not. Like the fire service are gonna go; “doors won’t open chief!” “Ah well, let her burn then”. Likely the poor chap was incapacitated by the accident before the fire took hold, and if he wasn’t, then that’s horrendous, but no different to the potential of any other automotive accident.
Modern cars, so safe in RTCs now, do present the fire service with new and unique challenges. This is a more than acceptable trade off for the fact that they are SO much safer than they used to be. Accidents that would have been fatal or life changing 15-20 years ago are usually walked away from these days.
In a crash if the front driver door doesn't open at least one of the other 3 will.
Not necessarily.
Source; been to lots that haven’t over last twenty years.
Doors on modern cars are rarely openable following a significant RTC,
It's only anecdotal and I don't have stats but after "significant" rally rashes it never took more than pulling the lever and a good shove to get out. Even when crawling out of a window was easier because the doors were obstructed, the doors worked fine once the car was back on its wheels. I like having manual door levers and a manual window winder for the rear windows at least. The drill for getting out of a car if we ended up in a river or lake was to check which window winder still worked by opening a little, then waiting for the car to mostly fill up before winding down and swimming out.
Rally cars are SIGNIFICANTLY more structurally robust than normal road cars
Group N, nah, just a roll cage. Fact is that doors you would be surprised to be able to open, opened. Edit to add: standard doors, standard anti-burst locks.
I’ll tell the FRS to scrap their holmatros then, Edukator says it’ll be okay 😉
Edit; in what way is a full roll cage not ‘significantly more structurally robust’ than a car without one? (Not to mention welded seams, etc).
Rally cars are SIGNIFICANTLY more [s]structurally robust[/s] suitable for bragging about what an awesome driver you are than normal road cars
FTFY
That's just it, they will no longer be O.K. and will have to wait for the fire service whereas before the chances were a pull on the lever and shove got you out. What's more likely to work after a significant prang? A manual lock powered by the occupant or puny solenoid powered by an electrical system that requires metres of intact cables, a functioning battery and some electronics that haven't been deranged by the crash.
It’s nothing to do with the door locks. It’s whether the car body has deformed (and it takes surprisingly little visible deformation) to clamp the door firmly in the frame.
And I’m not posting this as any kind of fanboi of Teslas or pointless overteching. I like (old, proper) land rovers for goodness sake!
That I understand (in the absence of stats we'll have to agree to disagree about the proportion of accidents that leave the doors clamped shut) , what is new is that even if the doors aren't frimly clamped shut, it only takes a minor electrical failure to leave you stuck in the car.
Edit to answer your edit:
I like (old, proper) land rovers for goodness sake!
Have you retro-fitted anti-burst locks? 😉