"They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it," Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.
Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it::"They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it," Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.
There's no way in hell this shit doesn't completely flop, right? Like, who in their right mind would buy this garbage aside from techbros riding Elon's pole?
I know someone who preordered this atrocity immediately.
He of course drives a Tesla already and was convinced it was fully self-driving capable (3 years ago! LOL).
Some people really embrace Musk's reality distortion field. Other co-workers just made fun of him and asked him if he was going to put his current Tesla S on his Cybertruck's truckbed to max out his Tesla fanboyism.
If it weren't for Musk standing to make a profit from it and Tesla's history of questionable design decisions and quality issues, I'd potentially be interested in one. I like how it looks (although my aesthetic choices are certainly not everyone's cup of tea,) and the specs are pretty impressive if they manage to deliver on them.
There's a lot of hunger out there for more EV trucks, musk fanboys will gobble up anything he is involved in, and lots of people make questionable vehicle purchases, I think it will sadly sell just fine.
There are plenty of people not in their right minds who have the money (or access to financing) and questionable taste to go buy the thing as soon as it's available.