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First of all, this is typical Gawker-site blog spam. It has zero insight. Second of all, while I’m sure you can find some tesla fans who will go for it, especi
by gurumeditations 7y ago
First of all, this is typical Gawker-site blog spam. It has zero insight.
Second of all, while I’m sure you can find some tesla fans who will go for it, especially with a $100 refundable deposit, I think they just made a bad call. How they go from Model X/3/S to this, escapes me. I love flat car panels, but I don’t think anyone who isn’t already a tesla fan will go for it. It’s viscerally ugly. They got many fundamentals right. The problem is the look. Trucks are not utilitarian. They are SUVs with the roof removed to make it less useful so that men will be comfortable buying it. Utilitarianism is not a legitimate excuse for this design.
It looks like a bunch of Silicon Valley nerds designed a truck they’d want to drive. It definitely has that niche appeal, but certainly no mass-market appeal. Is Tesla’s long term strategy to stay in the high end? I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re doing this kind of niche appeal because the price of batteries has not come down far enough to make a cheap decent electric car yet.
- hellotomyrars 7y agoTrucks pre-date the SUV and while there is certainly a market segment of people who buy a truck and don’t have need of a truck the idea an SUV is a more utilitarian vehicle in the literal sense of the word is beyond the pale. Agree the Tesla cybertruck is hideous and unlikely to appeal to a mass market for consumers or commercial operators.
- imesh 7y agoThis is so not accurate. There is a reason trades people drive trucks and it's not because they look manlier than SUVs. In fact the problem with the Tesla truck is that it looks like it was designed by someone who thinks people buy trucks because of macho aesthetics.