• LeopoldBloom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    5 days ago

    I see a surprising number of them around here, considering how expensive they are. The styling is what I’d imagine an 8 year old boy would come up with if you asked him to draw a car.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I would not be surprised if this is close to the truth. Straight lines are easier to draw so maybe that’s why Musk came up with this garbage design.

  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    First one i saw was abandoned on the beach, and flooded. Apparently one of the first things the owner had tried to do was drive on the beach, got down bellow the high tide line, and then gotten stuck. The local paper had a chronicle if the cars short lifespan up that evening, via user photos.

    It had come over on the ferry that morning, illegally parked twice down town, once in a handicap spot, and once in a crosswalk, and made it out to the beach to get stuck by noon, and was scrap by 3pm. (I’m assuming, as by that point high tide would have happened, and its battery and engines would have been submerged by a foot or 2 in sea water)

    It took a week or 2 fornthem to get it off the beach Apparently the one company that runs a beach capable tow truck had refused, not wanting to risk his vehicle on the fire hazard on wheels (especially when soaked)

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Lucky you

    I live in Vancouver and I have to see these rust buckets on a daily basis

    • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      In another 10 years they’ll be about as common on the road as 1973 Vegas with original engine.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    I see them all the time and the only time I thought one actually looked cool in person, was one that was painted with a pearlescent rainbow effect and had pride flags on it.

    Though I don’t know why such a person would have a cybertruck to begin with unless they won it in a raffle or something.

    • Piece_Maker@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      I saw one posted somewhere that’d been polished to a mirror finish. It looked awesome, but then I remembered how much more dangerous such a thing would be on the road and I shelved it into the “cool, but fuck no” part of my brain

    • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I wouldn’t enter a raffle for a Cybertruck. The odds are too high that I’d be stuck with a Cybertruck.

      • TheOakTree@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        If you can’t sell it, at least turn it into some kind of punching bag. Hell, start a fundraiser with the promise of blowing it up, and I’ll donate.

  • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    I was honestly excited about these. The difference in looks, the possibility of capabilities, etc. Then nazelon happened and I turned the rest of the way from Tesla. The issues that these keep having make me laugh at the cost that these idiots pay, the poor capability off road make me love my Tacoma even more.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      It has variable suspension. I suspect it is in its lowest position, on the bump stops

      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Even on the bump-stops, the edge of the wheel-well shouldn’t dig-in to the tire like that. These don’t look like after-market tires either

    • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
      101·
      7 days ago

      I’m no engineer but given that there’s soot marks I could imagine that a fire broke the seal on the hydraulics in the suspension. Or that the car was wedged into something, forcing the body down, and breaking the suspension.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        Fire. Airbags pop in large fires. These stupid things have airbag suspension, literally the least reliable way to make suspension.

        • Railing5132@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          What - seriously? That’s pants-on-head levels of stupid!

          So, perfectly on-brand for the WankerPanzer.

      • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 days ago

        Really thought people California would know better? Fucking Oklahoma morons surround me. What line of work do you do that allowed you to get out of this hell and get California?

        • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          Believe it or not, residential pest control. And being able to leave Oklahoma was exactly why I took the offer. The company I work for decided to open new branches in California and asked me if I would want to open one of them and run the branch. Jumped right on it. They moved me and my family here and here I am. Expensive but worth it for the quality of life improvements for me and my family.

          Edit - and also there’s idiots everywhere. But there way less of them here. Problem is the population is a gazillion times bigger than Oklahoma.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    I envy you. I see them all the time in the SF bay area. Fortunately I’ve steadily been seeing them less and less often.