A quote I've seen attributed to Carl Sagan comes to mind, "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are genius

A quote I've seen attributed to Carl Sagan comes to mind, "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." The Cybertruck is definitely different and attention grabbing. But there's good and bad versions of that and I really feel like this is the latter. Previous Tesla vehicles were also different and bucked certain traditional vehicle design trends but did so in a way that made them look like they were moving beyond current cars and legitimately belonged in the future. The Cybertruck also looks like the future, but as envisioned by a SyFy movie of the week that stars Lorenzo Lamas and that ran out of money and built their future vehicle out of spray painted plywood sheets. There's quirky bad, it grows on you bad, and then just bad bad. I also find it reminiscent of the Pontiac Aztek and some quick Googling tells me I'm not the only one. This is perhaps not the comparison you want to evoke. I've never seen an in-developed product gets such a huge amount of derision of its visual design and then come out essentially unchanged. Maybe Elon and Tesla have vision far beyond everyone else on this point, but it's difficult to imagine the appeal of this outside of an extremely niche market...perhaps of people who were sad their Pontiac Aztek died and that it didn't cost them more money.