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I think the CyberTrunk will prove expensive to build, and on a very practical level not a very good trunk. I'm trying to figure out who exactly the cybertruck

• unethical_ban 7y ago
  It is for people who want * a bed to carry bikes and coolers and bulky shit * the acceleration of a sports car * the ability to go over a curb without messing up the vehicle It is just a bit too expensive for me (I spent $25k on a car six years ago and I plan to hold on to it for another 4) but if I were in the market for a $40-50k truck, I would look at this and the Ram offroad similarly.
• danans 7y ago
  > I'm trying to figure out who exactly the cybertruck is for It's for the same people who buy most pickups and SUVs now - i.e. not tradespeople or people on farms. Instead most of these will spend their time sitting in gridlocked traffic on the way to and from the office or shopping mall in places like Dallas, Silicon Valley, New Jersey. Pickup trucks are very versatile vehicles, and we live in a society where people like to carry lots of stuff with them, whether or not they truly need to. A few weekends a year, the cargo space will be filled with gear to go glamping or skiing (hence the glamping scene on the cybertruck website), or other upper middle class pursuit, but more frequently visiting a winery or other rural tourist attraction. A few other weekends, it will carry bags of mulch from the garden center, or the kids' bikes. I'm not mocking those use cases. Minus the gridlock traffic to work (I'm lucky - I take a train), that pretty much describes what my family uses our small SUV for now.