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The truck that was supposed to revolutionize everything is flopping fast.
The hype is dead. The Tesla Cybertruck, once billed as the future of electric vehicles, is now looking like a commercial bust.
In the second quarter of 2025, Tesla sold just 4,306 Cybertrucks, down a staggering 50.8% from the 8,755 units it delivered during the same period last year, according to new data from Kelley Blue Book. This plunge is a signal that America’s most hyped truck may already be out of gas.
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“Wait a minute, Doc: are you telling me you built a time machine - out of a Cybertruck?!”
“The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car why not make it look ugly as fuck?”
I read used EVs are selling well. Not so much current new models. People are probably holding on to their money.
There are two Tesla dealerships within 15 minutes of my house. Both lots are filled with cyber trucks. Nearby, there’s a mostly-empty office complex that has another 25+ cyber trucks in the parking lot, clearly being used for overflow. Crazy.
I will forever point and laugh like Nelson at the morons who bought these Swastikar piles of shit.
But almost six years later, the truck’s surreal design, awkward size, high price, and late delivery have turned it into a niche curiosity, not a mass-market hit.
How the fuck do you write an article about the failed Cybertruck and not acknowledge Elon’s political bullshit impacting Tesla sales?!?
Dishonest shit.
Biggest takeaway; the media is still in denial.
The media is still
in denialreceiving money from the right.To be more generous, if you don’t have a legal team on your editorial staff in your section, just don’t mention the politics of billionaires.
Musk et al the 1%ers have lawyers on retainer whose only job is to litigate every mention of their name.
You can’t sue against truth though
you absolutely can. one might even say that’s the purpose of suing - to establish what is provably true
Early reviews raised red flags over software glitches, poor fit and finish, and disappointing range for a vehicle of its size.
That’s the only sentence acknowledging the MANY mechanical failures, too.
The range was fine for a mall crawler. If it sold enough for Tesla to build that extended battery, it would have had by far the most towing range for those who need it.
I don’t think initial quality and range were a real problem. T was the delay, the looks, the price over what was announced. But definitely its fate was sealed by musks disastrous foray into politics
Eh. Even if Musk still had his Iron Man in real life image the cyber truck would still be a complete failure.
Saying it’s a shitty car and a failure by only looking at it as a car seems like good journalism. This isn’t a good product that failed because people don’t like Musk anymore.
Well yes, but if you want to explain why it flopped you devinetively have to mention Elon Musk Teslas sales overall dropped everywhere around the world by up to 50%.
around the world by up to 50%.
While doing a product change over of their best selling vehicle.
Sales are still down, almost certainly because of Musk, but it’s not as dire everywhere like that either.
E.g Spain where sales were bad and people like to cite a large number, was up 60.7% in June YoY. When you look at H2 2024 vs 2025, now it’s only down 0.9%. 2024 was already a low year, so being lower than 2024 isn’t good, but it’s not like a monthly number makes it look.
They are still down in nearly every market yes, but you trying to imply its 50% in so many places and things are dire would also be shoddy journalism not taking into account the change over.
The UK for example only started getting the new Y in June, lets see what the UK in Q3 looks like with a full quarter of Y deliveries. It’ll be down, but how much down.
Edit: Some clarity and other examples, but I also want to add, see how much more complicated an article can get rather than just focusing on the Cybertruck objectively on it’s own?
Edit: Also you can’t even buy the Standard Range RWD Model Y in all markets yet (~5k USD cheaper), but again, not that this alone will reverse the generalized sales decline induced by Musk.
The stupid thing is, it was so easy to see what needed to be done. Tesla needed to release a pickup that appealed to Red State America. Functional first, but high end and ultra manly. Kind of like the F-150 lightning but cool.
Tesla needed to appeal to traditional pickup owners. Then Musk’s run to the right would have actually fallen in line with that strategy. But the Cybertruck is the exact opposite of that. There are probably more techies who own cyber trucks than there are pickup owners, and that’s pathetic. That’s a failure to understand your target demographic. This really comes down to musks insane hubris.
Lol function first.
Most f150s are suburban grocery getters. They just needed to release a mall crawler and keep Elon out of politics
I think the F-150 has some really cool features for a serious work truck. The front with the low entry means you can put relatively heavy tools there. The power outlets add a ton of functionality. The only thing it really doesn’t have IMHO is the ability to do serious towing… But that’s a problem with all electric vehicles.
Now I’m not a serious pickup guy, but from what I’ve seen, the F-150 looks much more built for work than any other EV on the market (and most pickups).
The F-150 is very modular. You basically build whatever on the back for whatever job you need done. You can’t do that with the Cybertruck because it’s not built like that with a frame.
Maybe function first helps with cosplaying as rural. People get very up in arms about frame type. The twice yearly sedanfull of potting soil is incredibly serious.
What, an ugly ass vehicle that looks like it came from an early 90’s video game is a flop? Whodathunkit?
Driving a Cybercuck is a great way to tell society you’re the village idiot.
I don’t think anyone credible sincerely thought the cyber truck was going to do well
It’s a vehicle for stupid people with too much money to toss around or stupid people without money that are so caught up in the culture war trash they’re willing to go into debt to make a really dumb statement.
When it was first proposed, it sounded like a great idea. Rust proof, no paint, secure bed area, hard wearing and easily cleaned interior, and very competitively priced.
Of course, that’s not the vehicle that was delivered.
I point them out to my partner when we see one and we both laugh. It’s the ugliest piece of shit on the road.
Yesterday, we were returning from a road trip and saw a semi hauling three of them. It was completely full. Other semis on the trip had like eight cars. How inefficient and riduclous they looked. We laughed at that, too.
I’m so sad that the nazi asshole’s stupid truck is a failure. /s No I’m not. I love it.
I think Musk drew this thing on the back of an envelope and forced it through to production against the protests and objections of everybody in Tesla. It sucks as a truck, it sucks as an EV, it costs way too much money, it’s so dangerous that it is banned in most of the world, it’s impractical, costly to repair, uninsurable and it falls to bits. It’s no wonder the thing failed.
It’s the delorian of our time. Go ahead and use it for the remake of back to the future.
I think you’re catching downvotes cause most people now think the DeLorean was cool because of the movies.
They don’t realize it flopped due to being insanely heavy, overheating, and other mechanical problems. Really expensive, as well. Also, the whole thing with the owner being busted for a massive amount of cocaine.
The parallels are actually pretty funny and you’re not wrong.
Except it does still look cool. It’s just that the drivetrain sucked. If I even got one, I’d replace it with an EV drivetrain. There’s pretty good options now. You don’t even have to pull parts from a totaled Tesla anymore.
John DeLorean also got acquitted on the drug trafficking charges when it was found he was entrapped.
If only weighs 2800lbs and most of the mechanical problems were sorted out quickly in production. The financial crash, high interest rates, negative publicity from the drug trial, and the election of Margaret Thatcher as British PM killed the company. It was a “death by 1000 cuts” situation.
To be fair I’m pretty sure the delorean was supposed to have a Ford V8, but supplier bailed last minute and left them scrambling. Thus the anemic puegot v6 it wound up with …
At one point, it was suppose to have had a rotary engine, but I’m not sure when that was changed. There’s one out there with a Mazda swapped in.
I remember watching the director commentary on the first movie and they made a joke about the 88 mph thing because the car could barely do it. If I recall the later car in the films was a Volvo underneath.
I didn’t know that about the Volvo, that’s pretty funny. Means it was cheaper and easier to do a body swap than try and keep one properly running. Maybe it was just that hard to get parts.
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/so-where-are-all-the-remaining-back-to-the-future-deloreans/
A bit more info.
And for Part III, Universal built the so-called “Oxnard car,” fitted with train wheels for use in the rail scenes, along with two DeLoreans on sand rail chassis and with Volkswagen engines and transaxles for the off-road driving scenes.
Walser said that all the cars retained their original PRV V-6s
I had to look up a sand rail chasis. I’m more of a machine guy than a car guy. Totally a dune buggy pipe frame with integral roll cage.
I guess they did body swaps when doing offroad. Which totally makes sense. Not sure if the DeLorean is a sports car or a sedan, but the frame wasn’t built for Hollywood stunts.
Marty even comments on the Doc’s choice in the movie.
“You made a time machine… out of a DeLorean?!”
It was in the same weight range as what Ferrari was putting out at the time. Those stainless steel panels are very thin sheets over fiberglass. They don’t add as much weight as you’d think.
Most of the other issues were fixed by VIN 3000, but their reputation was set by then. Getting framed by the FBI in a drug sting didn’t help, either. It has a lot of very thoughtful features, like a gull wing door design that only comes out 11" and won’t hit the car parked next to you.
It got caught up in a bunch of regulatory changes that were happening the late 70s/early 80s. Just a bad time to start a new car company, or to make a sports car at all. There aren’t many memorable cars from the time period for anything other than looks.
Please do not remake Back to the Future.
Good news Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale have the rights to approve any sequel or remake. They have both said absolutely no to any remakes.
Back to the Future IV…Ludicrous Mode, Elons Nazi Timeline.
Honestly that could be an interesting reboot.
We already have a Biff Tannon in the White House. Reality has usurped fiction in this regard.
Have you seen Hollywood recently? What isn’t a remake or revamp. Fuck they managed to get bill murray back into ghost busters. Hollywood is brain dead.
No.
I wanted one at $40k, but for $60k that is a no from me.
Well that was another thing - Elon did the usual bait and switch, promising a vehicle one price and then delivering something costing nearly double. He did the same with the Model 3 - promising 30k but launch price was nearer 60k.
Anyway I don’t think this vehicle is worth 40k either. At least the Model 3 was fundamentally sound design unlike the Cybertruck.
I would take one if they paid me $40k.
I wouldn’t drive it though
Harvest the sheet metal and batteries…
You could probably use the batteries for your home
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Sadly, its numbers are comparable to Hyundai’s Ioniq 6, which might be the best EV on the market right now. Seems a lot of EVs are tanking in sales now.
Every time I see one I burst out laughing, they look so fucking stupid!
Cars in early PS1 games be like:
me driving my shitbox around and I see a cybertruck
I drive a '96 Jeep Cherokee and yeah, I do the same. Haha!
I like how people don’t hate it because its electric, they hate it because it’s objectively terrible. Maybe if it didn’t stink like a dead nazi, people would buy it.
It’s ugly, and it looks like it jumped off the screen from the Cyberpunk 2077 world. It’s poorly built and ineffective at the job it was designed to do. And then Elon did his thing, and now it’s irrevocably tied to a dead Mid-20th Century ideology that the entire world fought to dismantle. I’m glad it’s falling by the wayside. An object lesson – don’t build stupidly engineered items, and don’t tout murderous ideologies that get a majority of the world against you.
It doesn’t look like it came out of Cyberpunk, literally every vehicle in that game looks way cooler and more advanced. The Cybertruck looks like it came from a “futuristic” wireframe video game from 1985. It’s obviously trying to play off DeLorean vibes, it’s made as nostalgia for a 40-year old vision of a future that never came. It’s like if someone made a 50s rocket-punk styled car in 1990, it’s just a botched anachronistic mess, more past than future.
Its from the movie Freejack, trashy sci fi action flick from 1992, Mick Jagger drives something like it
that looks more like an APC.
IIRC it’s a real amphibious APC used by the Royal Marines painted red.
From a PS1 game
It looks like it came from the launch version of Cyberpunk running on a PS4.
It’s ugly
I agree completely. I mean back in the 80’s they were envisioning cool stuff like this:
… and instead Telsa decided to put out something that looks like some guy tried to turn his shed into a car.
Even amateur designers can start from the cyber truck design and make something a lot better with a few tweaks. The current design is just a great visualization of what happens when the boss purposefully ignores any suggestion and criticism from the employees. I mean, this not only happens with cars. There are many projects going that way. This is just a very visual high level example.
He didn’t just ignore them. He fired anyone who spoke up about it.
That’s how you get the best ideas. /S
It’s actually a decent little sci-fi from the Knight Rider/Airwolf era. It stares Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball’s son.
Yes! It’s a fun show, and Chuck Wagner had charisma for days!
Is that a countach with led strips?
Basically. It’s a special effect done with reflective tape, I think? It’s from the 80’s TV show called “Automan.”
Ah, reflective tape makes sense. Everything had to look like Tron for a while.
Yeah when I think of a car that’s actually cyberpunk it’s some civic with mods.
I’d say it looks more like a futuristic barn
its basically a giant metal coffin, which is also a charcuterie machine.
I get it kinda. I like Charcuterie.I abhor Cybertrucks. Aaaagghh. Dangit. Now I understand. Just gonna close my evening out feeling kinda meh. Thanks, I guess. For the ugly ass vehicle that has absolutely ruined my appetite for any charcuterie plates for me this week. Maybe it’s a good thing? It certainly wouldn’t kill me to est super clean for a week but f that.
remember the hand getting sliced open, the carrots. also it can cleave venison in half.
Yeah I mean I don’t have an MBA or anything but I’m pretty sure “don’t praise Hitler” is pretty much Marketing 101?
Maybe if it didn’t stink like a dead nazi, people would buy it.
I dunno, I kind of like the smell of dead nazis.
Dead is the state I prefer them in, even!
