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Completely unrelated to safety, these vehicles don't look like they are aging well. They are all completely new but the ones I am seeing on the road already loo
by jmward01 2y ago
Completely unrelated to safety, these vehicles don't look like they are aging well. They are all completely new but the ones I am seeing on the road already look a bit beat up. That finish on them and their general styling emphasize every minor blemish.
- lukah 2y agoCar panels are convex on nearly all other cars for very good reason. Flat panels are structurally susceptible to damages which wouldn’t mark a standard panel. Adding a highly reflective surface was another great move.
- jmward01 2y agoI wonder what tests car companies generally do to predict how durable a style choice is (how scratches, corrosion, etc will impact the look). Protecting your brand is also about what people will see in the future, not just what is on the showroom now. If 5 years from now all of these vehicles look terrible that won't help sales for any of their models.
- jaggederest 2y agoI know in the past they've looked at data from used cars, and they also have HALT/HASS (highly accelerated life/stress) testing which does things like e.g. spray the car with concentrated salt solution in a wind tunnel, things like that. I believe many manufacturers also look at data from people like Munro & Associates who tear down cars, figure out what they're made from, and how they were made.
- btbuildem 2y agoYou ever notice how all cars look like all the other cars? There's rarely an exception, they mostly just copy each other. They seem to stick to a design, then someone makes an enormously brave move of slightly changing some small thing, and next year they all copy it.
- anon373839 2y agoNot only that, but the finish looks like trash, too. I'm seeing 10-20 Cybertrucks a day and almost all of them are weirdly splotchy and dull.
- Tempest1981 2y agoCurious what city that's in... I rarely see them.
- nrb 2y agoThere are TONS of them in Los Angeles.
- filmor 2y agoThere is a whole section in James May's review where he is confirming with a steel ruler that the surfaces are slightly convex :-) https://youtu.be/CQzYhMDNLPA?t=216 https://youtu.be/CQzYhMDNLPA?t=216
- Reubachi 2y agoThis has been normal/understood since pre-demo phases. The "car youtuber" culture around shitting on this car is almost as laughable as the car itself.
- pbreit 2y agoCould not disagree more. They are the freshest looking vehicles on the road.
- elmerfud 2y agoTo each their own on this matter because styling is a matter of taste. I remember the shift from the '70s style boxy cars to the mid to late '80s rounded style cars. I wasn't a fan of that new style when it came out but it did eventually grow on me. For me the cybertruck looks like something out of a low budget'70s Sci-Fi movie. Who knows in 10 years maybe it will start to appeal to me but for right now it doesn't.
- relwin 2y agoLooks like a "Death Race 2000" El Camino...
- hot_gril 2y agoNah, it's objectively not good-looking, and in a few years it'll be more obvious. There are probably more than 0 people who still genuinely think the Pontiac Aztek looks good, and they're wrong.
- alt227 2y ago'Good looking' is a subjective term by definition. Stop trying to tell people what they should think.
- baron816 2y agoEvery one I’ve seen has a wrap for this reason
- bamboozled 2y agoSeems weird to buy an $80k car and then spend $6k on a paint job just to make it look decent...
- analog31 2y agoThe DeLorean was this way too. People were paying to get it painted because the bare stainless steel finish didn't weather well.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoPeople spend money to modify $200k cars too.
- Cerium 2y agoSeems even stranger when you see a $25k car with a professional wrap.
- m463 2y agoon the other hand, I think several colors on the model S were a few extra $k.
- gibolt 2y agoThe panels will not rust, which is the reason to avoiding scratches on other vehicles. You can beat the hell out of it and not have to care.
- serf 2y agomost people care about scratches because they look like shit. paint is a bit more than just corrosion protection at this point, otherwise mfgs would just slap on the thickest toughest machine-tool grade enamel and call it a day. why don't they? because it looks terrible.
- fastball 2y agoAnd most cars end up scratched anyway, and most owners do not take their car in for detailing every time this happens (if at all).
- IshKebab 2y agoMost cars don't end up scratched. They definitely don't end up scratched after 1 year.
- Eikon 2y agoWe are not seeing the same cars or not have the same definition of what a scratch is, lol.
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- avgDev 2y agoMy car is 5 years old, 0 scratches. Other than a ding and some rock chips.
- lttlrck 2y agoOh did they fix the rusting issue from the beginning of the year?
- hot_gril 2y agoNot sure if it's age, but whenever I see one now, it looks dirty. Maybe it picks up dirt a lot, or owners are afraid to wash them, I dunno.
- cglace 2y agoAlmost all of the cybertrucks I see are wrapped
- detritus 2y agoI thought their having a 'patina' from use was part of the original schtick, before they even came out? I know that was one aspect that made me go "huh" and think they might be onto something interesting.