All the correct criticism about what the car represents culturally aside, the article also hints at what is for me the biggest aesthetic issue: "He [Musk] has

All the correct criticism about what the car represents culturally aside, the article also hints at what is for me the biggest aesthetic issue: "He [Musk] has called the Cybertruck “what Bladerunner would have driven” The car reminds me of what Mark Fisher called the "spectre of a lost future". Instead of imagining genuine futures the most "sci-fi" car imaginable is something that looks like it could come out of a 40 year old movie set. It's the same kind of design sentiment you see with skyscrapers in the Emirates were you can almost guess they were demanded by people who grew up on 80s science fiction with a 30 year delay.