Tesla confirms Cybertruck sales are down to just ~5,000 units

Look mommy, I drawed a twuck

That many, huh?

Here is the short version - cyberdorkwagons are selling less than 10% of what they predicted and planned for. They set up manufacturing to sell 250, 000 per year and are selling closer to 20,000. "what the blade runner would have driven" lol Still, 20,000 is a lot of dorks.

They actually, legitimately planned to sell a quarter-million of these things per year. It's the automotive version of "they will greet us as liberators!" No, Elon. In fact, everybody thinks you're annoying as hell and your ideas are lame.

Always reminds me to Homer who draw a car for his Brother

The 2019 cybertruck with a $40k pricetag and a relatively normal Tesla CEO, they probably sell that many. The reality of the 2025 cybertruck with its $100k price, terrible bugs/build, sieg heiling freak for a Tesla CEO, it's surprising they even sell 20k a year.

Mommy, Mommy, nobody wants to buy my twuck.

All that tooling and line design for these numbers. Sounds like CT dorks are an exclusive club! Bullish!

Those abandoned mall parking lots don't stand a chance.

Never would have guessed the number was that low, since I feel like I see lots of those DePloreans here in the PNW.

The Edsel of our time.

It is also just genuinely an overpriced, poorly built, underperforming, and super ugly vehicle. I don’t know why anyone thought it was a serious product.

You'd still have to pay me $40k to drive that ugly POS.

Lol fair! Every time I see one in person I'm in awe of how stupid they look.

I'm surprised there's that many incompetent dumbasses buying them. Looks like the human failures are desperately trying to find a matching car that fails just as much as them.

Why couldn't Elon have just designed a regular looking electric truck? Yeah, given all his recent nonsense sales would've still tanked, like the rest of Tesla, but at least it would've been attractive to start with to more then just Elon stans convincing themselves it wasn't ugly af

It’s crazy. Just imagine if they made a “normal” truck, doesn’t even have to be a big utility focused truck. Normal style. It would have sold like crazy. Instead the big sellers are F150 Lightning and Rivian. I’ve owned two teslas but I’m waiting a year or two to switch to a normal EV truck.

I’d do it for $20k if I wasn’t taxed on the gift (price of the truck + $20k) and I’m permitted to paste signs on the panels that reads “I won this POS truck in a contest.”

My thoughts exactly. Once the influencers returned their leases and couldn’t milk anymore content from them, who is left to buy one?

So will Slate succeed where the Cybertruck failed?

Drugs

Tesla's killing it! The company I mean. Stock jumps 4.53% today on the news. I'll never understand this.

Cult of personality is a dangerous marketing model. Can they be effective? Sure, but it’s easy to become volatile.

An Edsel is a compliment. I think it's more comparable to a Yugo.

Me too. Thankfully seeing them in the wild has been rarer.

Maths says about 55 fools are born per day.

You’re crazy. I’m going to need life changing money to drive one of those. In a VHCOL area, we’re talking a minimum of 4.5M tax free.

Dude just had to stay out of politics I bet this crapcar would have sold as well setting a 'trend'

He wanted his personal Homer mobile... except that the Homer mobile was actually a good car!

I would love to buy that car though, big difference 🤣

And the stock is up 12% as of 1pm est. Edit. +15% by end of day. This stock is so far removed from reality it's astonishing.

At least Homer’s brother realized it’d be a flop. Elon saw the Cybertruck and thought it’d be a hit.

A "Truckla" would have flown off the lot.

It was always unrealistic that Tesla could make a $40k Cybertruck profitably.

We know what "the Blade Runner" drove: A Peugeot 3 wheeled flying car.

This is way worse than Edsel. The Edsel wasn't actually a 'bad' car, it just tried to appeal to everyone and didn't quite live up to expectations. It was a car genuinely ahead of its time. It still sold 116K annually. Almost 6x CT's numbers. CT is by far the worst major automotive launch of all time.

You're probably seeing the same 4 or 5. They just stick out a lot more

Bingo. Not something I really see myself driving but honestly I don’t mind the look of the thing. What I do mind is the shitty mechanical design and execution along with the brand having become toxic thanks to Elon. If the price was reasonable and overall build quality was at least on par with the rest of their lineup (not even that high of a bar) I think they could have been quite popular.

lol reminded of the monk episode In Mexico. I think it is the drugs, I don’t know how but trust me it is drugs

Ego, drugs, mental health, no-one willing to tell him 'no'

Underrated comment. Edsel’s were 1) Overly stylish 2) expensive vs Ford’s own existing models 3) Over hyped (marketing, E Day) 4) Confusing to customers (Is it luxury? Who are they selling to?) 5) Poor workmanship

Not sure, since a lot of the ones I’ve seen have customs paint jobs/wraps.

Now just waiting for a video showing all the leftover cyber trucks driving themselves to the recycling centre.

The ability to fail up in capitalism is astonishing.

Not if the EV tax credit goes away. Why pay $27.5k for a truck with manual windows when a maverick is $28k and comes with the creature comforts you expect out of a modern vehicle

The 2019 cybertruck with a $40k price tag was always just a lie though. As were the initial specs.

It is still selling? I'm impressed.

$40k is reasonable if the quality control was better. At that price you should get at least 5 years without catastrophic problems.

Yeah, but they only missed by 92%. \- Tesla Fanboy

I can see a movie in 20 years where the Cybertruck is a key character and landmark of mid-2020's "taste"

It does truck stuff!

I question the intelligence of anyone who buys a Cybertruck.

Stock up over 4%. Makes sense.

Jesus Christ. I feel like I could build and sell 5,000 trucks by myself if I put my mind to it.

Tooling can’t be that complicated to stamp out flat sheets of stainless steel

Ineos are now selling twice or the number of grenadiers and the price tag starts at $80k. It’s not really a matter of price. It’s that the cyber truck is a truly terrible product, made by a company with a toxic image.

5,000 units per what?

One thing about this stupid design, which I hadn't thought of until I read it in a review recently, is that you cannot see the front of the thing, at all, from the inside. Any other vehicle you can at least see where that part of your vehicle in front of you ends, which can be quite helpful if you want to, say, avoid bumping into other vehicles, people crossing the road, or anything else out there in the rest of the world. However, the way the windscreen slopes like that makes it impossible to see any part of the outside of your car from the inside. MuskGenius™.

Those are the ones Musk bought to give away as Christmas presents.

Fiat sold more multiplas…

>Still, 20,000 is a lot of dorks. Actually, that number will be lower in future quarters. There is a finite market for those things, they are tapping it out.

A Maverick isnt 28k other than a stripper model for fleets. A nice Lariat is about 40k- and the cheapo one goes up about 3k year. That said, Id take a Maverick over a Slate and that includes the steel wheeled cheapest model.

This is exactly why the design is so bad. It is purposely low effort to reduce the cost of building it.

Can confirm every single one is in Irvine,CA.

I had a pre-order for one, at that price point with all of that technology It was a no-brainer. But not at $120,000 with so many problems.

Sure, honey, at those prices, how about a fire sale?

I remember the idea of cyber truck being steel was a single giant mold making it lighter and stronger. Instead it ended up just being steel for no reason at all.

Yeah but why would you need to when the truck has full self driving? It’s even got cameras like eyeballs to control it! /s

Cybertruck is the Robotaxi of Starships.

I'm aware the Maverick for 28k is the base fleet sales model, but even that model will have power windows and an infotainment/speaker system, cruise control etc. Without the tax credit the Slate of similar specs will cost more than the most basic Maverick, and I just don't see them selling enough to stay in business at the price point.

Yeah. Where are these 150 people every day coming from?

The douche-mobile.

Alternatively, how about just a big fire

I wonder where they are hiding their development costs for this ‘thing’, a new model with factory and tooling, especially with such a unique concept, costs billions. If this factory then runs at such low utilisation it will cost a fortune. That must be extremely negative on the balance sheet, but I have the impression that Tesla is very ‘creative’ in this respect.

I remember someone saying you never see a girl riding in one. To date, it is always just a dude alone or with a friend. Male birth control these things are.

Lot of other tooling required in the process aside from just making the panels. And it’s an entire new production line to make the cars, so any pre-existing tooling on said production line would need to be made from scratch (or purchased) It’s an entire new factory if I remember correctly so built from the ground up with all new equipment.

What a major fuckup. I called it a few years ago... I literally said, "This will be Tesla's first flop" because I couldn't answer the question "Who is this for exactly?" And come up with enough of a section of the population that would make it feasible.

😂😂😂

Meme stocks are the only thing keeping the stock market alive rn IMO.

The real answer is all Range Rover up in the front and all pick up down in the back.

I would love to know the math on how many centuries of sales they will need to earn back the infrastructure investment on a present value basis

I think Cybertruck owners are concentrated in certain areas, like I see them in SoCal.

People are still buying cyber trucks? Lol

What sucks is that there are aspects of the design that are great. One of these is the lower front end height compared to an F150 Lightning or Silverado EV. In my Lightning there is no way I will see a kid in front of me without the camera in front. But the issues outweigh the positive aspects.

[removed]

5000 too many

It's sub 10 micron! How much more do you need? /s

People years from now are going to marvel that it took so long for Tesla to go belly up

they need to hire some economists or something. how could they not see that demand for these dorky vehicles are going to wane?

Don't Yugo's kinda keep driving forever? Terrible car, but you can throw w/e at them?

The problem of the CyberTruck is not only his price or image. It is simply not a truck, the unique engineering parts do not workreliable, it‘s incredible unsafe for other people and sometimes the passengers too and its battery has not enough capacity for its massive weight. We will see the battery technology for heavy duty and vanity trucks in 2030. The thing is a massive failure and only one man is to blame: Elon Musk.

It's hard for me to not negatively judge the person driving one.

6) sold 6x more than the cybertruck in an era of much lower sales volume

Did you really believe it was going to meet those specs and price?

What? There are other vehicles where you can’t see the front, and more where yo can only if you seat high. I’ve never heard of it being a problem since you drive mostly trusting on your spacial awareness, like when you park in parallel, when you drive in reverse, or when you do anything of the things you mention in a lot of cars.

There are surprisingly quite a few in the Northern Virginia area.

IIRC - Didn't they actually make the Homer and it ruined his company?

Yeah i am all about hating the CT as being a stupid design that even a 6 year old would discard and start over, but that thing about the front of the thing doesn't track, i drive/drived only european and korean cars, no huge american monster trucks and it was always "my front is probably around there", couldn't really see it.

Hey now, the Homer was poorly designed but at least it was well constructed.

I really wonder who the hell those 5,000 people are?

Edolf would have to pay me to take one. On the first repair I'd scrap it..... Still it would cost me $2000 to install a home charger... Nah, forget about it. Total trash.

They are a blight on socal ... See like 5+ a day on my commute lately

The Cyber truck *wishes* it was a Dacia Sandero.

With autopilot that actually works lol

That many that don’t “mind” driving “swasticars”

The Yugo gets dissed but for the time it was an extremely cheap car and some ran without problems for years. I had a buddy that found Campagnolo rims for it that originally cost more than the car lol It was a fun car to drive. Which I’m not sure you can say about the CT.

Underperforming how? I immediately know the driver would be awful to talk to and probably has a micropenis. Isn’t that the main selling feature? Honestly if anything it’s over performing given musks accelerating levels of awfulness.

Focus on Full SUV instead

They aimed for Massengill, but got Summer’s Eve

They assume they’ll sell around 20k this year based on first quarter numbers if around 5k sold. They won’t continue to sell 5k a quarter. Probably won’t sell 15k for the year.

You talking about the cybertruck or doge savings?

Like the Baja 500

I have a suspicion a good portion of those 20k are businesses A further suspicion a good portion of those businesses are using it for advertising since it looks funky and car people talk about it a lot, in my area alone id estimate 10% of the cybertruck driving are just an advertisement for their business. Not going to lie, the shape works really well for plastering s good vinyl wrap on, get some good large flat sections you can take advantage of to not distort your image.

Yeah the problem was more that it very infamously wasn’t an ideal car for crossing the Straight of Macinac.

snatch vast oil profit telephone mountainous like attempt detail cow *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev/home)*

Yeah. I live in a medium sized city in the Great Lakes and I’ve only seen 1 or 2 in the wild. You find cyber trucks where you find Silicon Valley Types (derogatory).

Totaled ones that need to be replaced. I shocking number of these shitboxes have already met the junk yard crusher.

wow.

Per quarter.

I’m pretty sure they were making a joke based on how fElon gracefully highlighted how important the unobtainable tolerances at scale the side panels needed to be for him to be “satisfied”. Otherwise the rest of the vehicles prefect design would be hampered. From the headlights catching fresh snow to dampen those pesky photons, to its over abundant ability to provide the utility a truck is expected to provide its owner. Unrelated: I enjoyed the information you provided us :)

So 50 tops.

I imagine an unsurprisingly large number of diehards re-buying after their first was lemon lawed.

Are you sure? Any other vehicle design I can think of you can see the front. You might have to move your head to do so, but what other vehicle has a windscreen like that?

Who the heck is still buying these ugly ass things ?

But the full self-driving will be available only by the end of 2025 or early 2026.

I’m surprised that they sell any of those actual pieces of shit.

Yes it is good that it has a sloping front for visibility on the ground straight ahead. But the front side visibility is terrible because of the long sloping window frames and the enormous wiper standing vertical.

Watch the stock rally tomorrow

compare practice cats middle ad hoc follow selective fuzzy rob hurry *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev/home)*

Holy shit I thought it was per month lmao

Yeah but thats offset by: I would never do business with a company that would support musk/trump by buying a wankpanzer. Not sure it’s really the best advertising plan… I think keeping politics away from your business is generally the best idea.

Yeah 5k per quarter is absolutely effing terrible

As head of transportation under Biden, you would've had to pay me a whole lot more than that to agree to leaving deadly Musk trucks menacing children (everyone) on our roadways.

They told investors they would sell 250k/year. I wonder if the company's internal projections were more realistic.

Fair but then you get into the intricacies of advertising that most people don't have the time or funding to figure out. How much of the population actually has a negative connotation of Tesla versus Elon, how many of them let that reflect on the owners? That is hard to estimate Then you have the fact that the deal on them is crazy right now they need to get them off the lot and the deals show it (drove through a Tesla lot last week, they are parking the cybertrucks as far away from each other as they can and they are still super common in the parking lot)

People suggested I was wrong when said they may be at 2000 a month. Likely closer to 1500 a month. They are closer to 1500 a month. There is no metric that can make this look good. That is a line that is loosing significant money.

It’s absolutely insane that this is the case.

I think its a shitstain, but somewhere in my post history I really thought they'd do it... Tesla has had a back for building cars that 99% hate and 1% buy, and thats worked for years... Still half expecting this to turn around, but musk has pissed off both sides of his cult.

Please get the shit truck off the market

Well I just had a look at a picture of it and I can see what you mean but the angles are very different, and the front is much closer to you so easier to estimate the position of. The weird thing about CT is how far the furthest part of the windscreen (wndshield) is, and combined with the angle it is, at least according to one reviewer's opinion, difficult to judge where the front of the thing is.

No they would not. Not with that design. For most truck owners, they want a truck. They do not need gadgets or fart sounding horns. They want strong suspension and proper brakes. They want towing that will not eventually crack and they want a box that you do not have to worry about scratching. And they want range. To be sure there are people that want something novel. But this truck would not be novel at all if it had high sales as you suggest. Every truck is identical and kind of boring identical and that does not allow an owner to feel unique. Yes they can put on an expensive wrap but that means they have to spend an extra 5000 dollars and save up about 1000 dollars each year to have it redone every 5. Mostly this truck appeals to the 8 to 30 age group. Of whom have little money to spend on gimmick items.

Slate has cruise control. Power windows are an option. I would DIY that myself. Fixed my buddy’s Armada window no problem. Infotainment is over priced. You can get Android “head units” on Amazon for just over $100. Got an ATOTO for my Excursion, dual cameras, for $130. I used to build my own subwoofer boxes. Amps and speakers are easy peazy. I might just start up a company adding accessories for all the pansy non-DIY types that can’t even change their own car batteries. Once people start making accessories and 3D printed holders… sky is the limit.

Which is funny because the DeLorean also failed for the same reasons. Well I would say the DeLorean was not as ugly, fitting in with more of a sports car design, but it simply was an economic failure and did not meet up with the specs they envisioned. As you say, being a truck, who thought it would be a serious product?

Who are these people who are still buying this crap?

Generally, automakers are unlikely to maintain a production line with only 20,000 units sold per year. This is due to the high costs associated with maintaining a dedicated production line, including tooling, labor, and supply chain management. Unless the vehicle is highly profitable on a per-unit basis or serves a niche market where volume is not the primary driver of success, 20,000 units a year is likely too low to justify the expense. If Tesla keeps this open, it is for the perception they did not fuck up. They hide the sales and profits off these lines with other models that do not sell well.

TSLA is hyping their AI as if they are going to crush Nvidia, Meta, Alphabet and Amazon at AI. Sucker born every minute. Elon is dancing as fast as he can.

That is a small part of it. You need to then get that piece delivered and mounted. They did go with glue but we are all now seeing how that is turning out.

Didn't Peon say he'd build 7 for every one he didn't sell? Simpletons like myself just can't understand his brilliance.

Ha! I think doge barely hit 1%, but really the point of it was to stop Elon's investigations.

To be fair, the non-EV Ford F-150, Chevy Silverado, Dodge Ram also has a problem with too high a hood to see what's in front of it. It's so bad, the NTSA is looking into it.

This post earned y’all a follow. Please post more about the Deplorean’s demise. Thanks!

The Ineos is pretty badass looking though.

Good callout. I specified the EV models for a better comparison, but that’s good to mention. I love the large frunks… but it’s just stupid from a pedestrian safety standpoint and it needs to be fixed.

Well, according to Ripley, there's one of them born every minute.

Soon, they'll have to stack them. Over time, it'll be like a huge stainless steel compost heap.

It’s truly one of the dumbest vehicles ever made

Same question, only the hardcore fans are left I guess ? I'd personally be so ashamed to be seen driving this thing.

I call bullshit

More like the Baja 5.

Stock to the moon though

Thanks, I appriciate it!

Right and the DeLorean should have been a really key use case for CT. There were some major missed learnings. And as for the truck part lol idk man if it had super high utility I think it could have survived way better but as soon as I saw the production “truck bed” I was wondering why someone from Tesla didn’t wander over to literally any production pickup truck and take some notes.

Fred is full of shit yet again, Tesla didn’t confirm anything. Just his dumb ass guessing again.

Does it matter what I believe? I also had a pre-order for a Tesla 3 and that started shipping many many years behind schedule.

Tell me about it. I own one lololol

The purpose of this car is bullying other drivers.

There are 10 cameras on this thing. There's one in the front....pretty sure.

You can still see some on the road in the former yugoslavia

It’s a limited collectors’ edition now!

These are cast from a single piece of sheet metal accurate down to a single micron! That’s terribly difficult! /s Remember when Elmo was shilling that story?

The surprising news is that there are 5,000 suckers who are untouched by Musk's disdain for ordinary folk

I would never do business with a company that bought it. If they have enough money to spend that much on a vehicle with no practical purpose, then they must really be overcharging their customers.

Starting to think most of the sales are in my district. Not only am I seeing way more cybertrucks in my area but they're all driven by old white men with oakleys.

The 2019 Cybertruck with a 40k price tag never actually existed, tho…

Sale of \~5,000/quarter is about 10X what I would have guessed. Maybe that's why TSLA is up today, even though CT sales are down 90% from planned production. \[edit for clarity\]

John Bladerunner would never drive in a car as shitty as the cybertruck!

I guess everyone is different but think I'd prefer to just use my eyes, directly, to see what's going on rather than have to stop, look at a screen, then start prodding away at it until I have the right camera up, or whatever it entails. To be honest I don't really know. Perhaps if I drove one I'd find this aspect didn't bother me. It's just I was reading a review or some such article in which the author was driving one, either for the first time or after driving other vehicles for a while, I forget, and he described how the design meant he had to guess where the front was and I thought "yes, that must be irritating".

Excellent news for drugged up Tesla’s investors! Stock price will go up tomorrow.

why would that be do you think. the cyberbeast is awesome at failing

I guarantee you elon has never owned a truck or done truck guy stuff

He was planning to sell 250,000 of these things. ha ha ha ha ha ha 🤣 Like, even Toyota, who otherwise can do wrong it seems, has tried for 25 years only to sell 10% the number of full-size trucks that the big three sell combined. Leon Musk really bet big on a sure loss.

The old difficulty adjusting when reality doesn’t meet their beliefs. First one was a fluke but the next one will be perfect because they’ve made it better … lord Elon be praised …

If it's done well it's almost entirely a write-off, still impacts the business but alot of that is a deduction, so it's less than you would think, less than if the same boss went and picked out a sedan worth 50k This is without factoring in crazy ass deals on them at the moment if the business needed a vehicle anyways with similar capacity, a cybertruck isn't that much worse, if they were getting an advertising vehicle anyways, there may be better cost options, they are not going to be as efficient.

Without all the flashy branding and echo chamber thinking, somebody (maybe everybody but 5,000 people every Quarter) realizes how ugly and dysfunctional the CT is compared to real trucks from competitors lol

If it was $45-50K with self-driving + didn't have Musk affiliation, it'd pretty much be the perfect vehicle for field sales reps and they'd sell plenty especially given some of the current tax incentives for big trucks. But since they'd rather have thousands sitting in mall parking lots instead of dropping the price where they'd make sense as biz vehicles (where the ugliness would get dissipated by a branded vehicle wrap) they'd rather doom the whole product line. I wouldn't want one for personal use. But for biz usage the reduced gas and maintenance costs would make it more viable.

Sad for Tesla but at least they'll be able to make up for it with their line of Semi trucks

I agree that they are an excellent marketing platform (much better than most trucks given they stand out and have lots of flat surfaces). And also agree it would be better without the Musk affiliation. But they aren't exactly offering exceptional deals on them yet. I looked into it as a biz purchase because I thought they'd have come down a lot further by now than tehy have. I assume there must be some massive tax break they will get for destroying the vehicles rather then selling them cheap.

I love the sentiment but way too much pollution. I suppose if we take the batteries out of all of them that would lessen the pollution significantly. Coincidentally I could use a shitload of batteries for home storage...

5000 units per quarter is in line for volume for a car in this price class.

I'm unsure why anyone would want to own a car that locks you in when it catches on fire.

Your country has 200m people

Agreed, if it had the same features as the F-150 lightning and actually worked…this probably would have actually been competitive

They shut down the manufacturing line of them recently, claiming that they were just going to take a week to do repairs on the facility. Anyone have an update on that? Did they continue production?

And I don't even think it's one bit of steel like they promised, it's mostly steel panels stuck onto plastic and glued together.

It's ugly but it had some potential when the backend was going to be open to the cabin and be air conditioned, which would have been good for light camping, but that obviously didn't happen - along with a thousand other selling points.

If it's a refundable deposit why not, especially back in 2019. If it turned out good then great, you were first in line to an amazing vehicle, if it ended up being awful (and it did), you get your money back and you don't lose anything. Even if they had a small probability of meeting their promises it was worth a shot.

He just fires the entire team when someone even suggests no so he filters out anyone who might say no.

I’ll buy one for $40k if you want

I felt it was clear it wasn't going to meet expectations from day 1.

It was pretty clear his specs were completely made up.  I couldn't tell if you were a flipper or credlous and was a bit curious.

For real. I signed up to buy one. I even like the stupid design. But since then, we've learned a lot about Elon. And the thing seems quite poorly built. So I cancelled.

I wonder if they count replacement of hopelessly broken ones as a "delivery". Additionally, a manufacturer of those sunglasses racists wear should probably buy the data for every CT customer. 1000% Conversion rate on tap and they're just ignoring it.

Yes. “Introducing the Homer. A car built for Homer.”

There are far too many around me. I see one every time I leave the house it seems.

It’s easy to say that with hindsight. I thought it was unlikely, but not impossible that they’d met them, but either way we’re talking about a refundable deposit. It’s worth the chance to put down the deposit sometimes, if it ended up not meeting expectations (and it most certainly didn’t), you get all your money back and you don’t lose out on anything.

[deleted]

They actually had to buy back Kyle from Out Of Spec’s Cybertruck because it had so many issues. He was one of its biggest fans but it didn’t seem like he wanted another one since some of the issues aren’t repairable due to bad design.

Tesla makes up 1%-2% of the S&P500. Anyone “conservatively” buying that index fund is participating in this, unfortunately.

You know since Elon took over Tesla I think this is the only thing that was actually his idea.oh that and the tunnel nonsense. Have any of his ideas actually panned out or does he just get rich off others accomplishments?

I think the angle of the windscreen in a minivan is generally less severe and, if you raise your head and move it closer to the glass I expect you can see the front. Also I think the problem with CT is exacerbated by how far away the bottom of the windscreen is. Clearly, though, I was foolish to say "Any other vehicle" there. I did most of my driving decades ago and, back then, I think what I said may have been true, but it might not have been \[note to self: must be more careful!\]

Imo they're actually way less ugly in person. Still ugly as shit, but there's a certain cool factor.

The market is basically people who - want an impractically large truck - rarely haul or tow anything - don't think electric cars are gay - aren't turned off by Elon Musk's politics - have $60k to burn half of these are mutually exclusive

Homer's car horn played La Coocaracha! Way better.

Honestly advertising is weird. 80% of the battle is getting your name in someone's head. I'd never support a business I remembered seeing on a cybertruck... But I am sure that if they were a Google result and I was choosing that one would seem familiar and I'd favor them. No way I'd remember specifically where it was from.

LMAO. OK. Good for you.

Alexa, play *Man on the Silver Mountain*

According to Wikipedia... > Ford announced the end of the Edsel program on November 19, 1959. Production continued until late in November, with 2,846 model year 1960 cars produced. Total Edsel sales were approximately 116,000, less than half the company's projected break-even point. 116,000 models over three model years is about 40,000 a year. So Cybertruck is "only" twice Edsel's failure in units sold. And we are not mentioning that the US market was about half what it is today, and that Edsel launched just as a major recession got underway, and it's way easier to finance vehicles today than it was in 1958-1960.

I would rather buy a used unwashed tongue scraper than this monstrosity.

It had rack and peanut steering!

To own the libs, or something. I don't know, it's hard to keep track of these idiots anymore.

Rack and peanut steering.

Not yet

Just a smidge lower than his claim he’d sell 250k per year

No it’s not. Should be double. See BMW 7 series and Mercedes S500 sold 10k+ units each priced over $100k last year. This took me about 10 seconds, I’m sure there is more data out there.

Tesla sales down, so Tesla stock up tomorrow 🤔 It never fails, no matter how bad the news Tesla stock up for life .

And no, I promise I haven't said the same thing every year since 2018.

That’s 10k units for the year for the 7 series, this is 5000 units per quarter for the cybertruck, or 20,000 units per year.

Dude!! I thought I was the only person who thought this lol

Do you want to meet at the Walmart parking lot, or should I mail it to you?

Draw is kind of accurate since it's HIGHLY UNSAFE to tow anything making it not really a truck but a faux truck. See Jerry Rig everything videos about the cast aluminum bumper fiasco when every other truck uses cast steel and won't rip apart when towing.

In a tiny bit of fairness the Nazi and fascist Trump supporting stuff hadn't come out at the time the cyber truck was announced and a lot of liberal tree hugging types still supported him.. Now everyone wants to see him loose. Liberals hate him for supporting trump and maga thinks he has TDS after he said Trump is on the Epstein docs. No one left to support his companies including Europe since he tried and failed to twist the German elections. Big losses there as they move towards BYD.

\- Elon, age 54

Like disassemble itself while driving! And break down if taken through carwashes!

Welp, time to dust themselves off and try again. Ideally, with a less retarded CEO at the helm.

For your enjoyment, Technoking runs over a Valet sign becasue he can't see out his Incel Camino: [https://youtu.be/AjPBS7VxDQ0?t=36](https://youtu.be/AjPBS7VxDQ0?t=36)

Kudos to Tesla’s sales team! They found 5k suckers

Be fair, that’s a general American truck problem!

[deleted]

[deleted]

They still managed to find 5000 suckers ready to buy this contraption? An amazing achievement in itself.

The few, the dumb.

2017

JFC Timmy that’s the ugliest pile of crap I’ve ever seen. *Aren’t you going to put it on the fridge mommy?* Oh gawd no. Don’t ever bring me another drawing. If a Crayon ever comes within 50ft of you, just run away screaming.

Tesla investors on reading this: “This is a great time to invest. Proves they are not a car company like Musk said all along!”

I'm amazed there are still that many people that want to buy this dumb thing.

The Homer! What was it? “The elegance of a gazelle, but powerful like a gorilla!”

“GAAAGGGHHH!!! What does this monstrosity cost?!?!? I’m ruined! RUINED!!!!!”

You don’t need to see the zombies you run over post-apocalypse.

They get totaled faster than sold.

He actually was less optimistic, at least at first, saying it might not take off and they'd have to make a more normal truck after all.  But also at the time sales were booming of all other Teslas and one flop wouldn't have hurt.

That would actually be true, had they not removed the ultrasonic sensors and now rely on cameras to see what they too cannot see.  The ultrasonics would warn you like they did on older Teslas and like they do in nearly every other modern car now.  Instead he said "hey everyone loved us removing rain sensors, let's do that again!"

Low enough to not care had Elon shut the fuck up and not cratered sales of all other Teslas, high enough that now it does hurt.

lol. Just lol.

F150 pickup truck has about 750000 unit sales per year. The Cybertruck was meant to make vehicles like F150 and Dodge Ram obsolete.

Most, perhaps all, other trucks, you can draw a straight line from somewhere on the outside of the vehicle, very near or at the very front, through the windshield and into the body of the vehicle. Granted, sometimes you might have to move your head up and or closer to the glass to see it, but nothing else I know of makes it so impossible like this.

It will not.

The best year for the Pontiac Aztec was 28,000. The CT is only still around to save face.

U know then it means Tesla stocks going up tomorrow

I have no time to tinker

Then it will be by the end of 2026 or early 2027, and so on.

but he came back and made a fortune on the baby translator (based on living with homer and observing Maggie)

And Elon will come back by moving us all to Mars... ...oh, wait.

They're endemic to Orange County CA 😭

Those things aren’t trucks, they’re large batteries on wheels. With the 120kW capacity that’s enough to run a house for more than a week if you manage the power right. If you have solar, then it’s even better. He should have made the wheels retractable and the chassis more square like to allow vertical stacking. =p

This monstrosity cost eighty two THOUSAND dollars?! Inflation pegs that as 180k now so not as bad as the cubertruck but still, 120k was insane and I'm shocked tens of thousands of idiots paid that much for something they'll be shutting down production of soon. Updates/repairs/parts will end at some point too

>His numerous SpaceX test launches are failing at a rapid pace. This is likely to have been at the demand of an increasingly impatient Musk. The way they're doing it now is idiotic. Essentially the production line mentality of Tesla, with a number of different 'models' tested in blocks by type, all being made at the same time to get explosions faster for different reasons every time. Literally throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. You can do that in coding, so long as you document everything (Elon doesn't know how to use github lol). It does not translate to aerospace whatsoever. That's how you know it was his idea

Yeah, the supposed exoskeleton was given as the entire reason it had to be shaped like it was. Quelle surprise, it turned out to be FAR too difficult and costly so the concept was junked. Possibly even before that ridiculous presentation, I wouldn't be surprised at all, knowing him And like,  there's nothing wrong with body on frame, but it's classic Elon to make up some unrealistic and unattainable bullshit to woo the cult, like if PT Barnum ran an MLM

5000 is a lie too

But did they say which year they were using? Cause a year on Jupiter is nearly 12 earth years and their current pace keeps them within the 250k units sold in a Jupiter year!

LOL! "I've always spoken in Tesla Years, which are defined by the sidereal orbital period of the Roadster I shot into Mars orbit," Musk said, testily shouting down listeners who were quick to point out that Musk did not in fact launch a Tesla Roadster into Mars orbit. "I'm surprised you guys didn't know that, actually" Musk added unnecessarily.

Slate sent me a drawing of a truck yesterday actually!

I was expecting it to be three centuries but turns out it’s only two—time to buy the stonk!

They were able to sell five thousand.

The question now is how long they'll carry this thing as part of their lineup. There's no saving it now and the line should be shut down ASAP from a purely business standpoint. How long will they lose money on it to keep Elon from being too butthurt? 🍿🍿

When will Tesla king accepts failure and shutdown the this shit ?

while out walking today, saw one driving down the road. made sure to do my part and stopped and pointed at it and laughed

If someone gave me a cyber truck, there was nothing I could actually do with it other than sell it. It would have no practical use for me. There is no way I could store it or charge it. I’m pretty sure I would not enjoy parking it. To be fair, there are all sorts of trucks. I would also not have any use for. All sorts of sports car I would have not have practical use for. But I look at those and I think I could understand why someone would want one, at least.

As a Cybertruck owner I hope they stop making it. I want it to stay a rare car

Gifts are tax-free in America (for the recipient)

Dodge Intrepids with the Cab Forward design were the same way. Most of the engine was actually under the dash.

Tesla cyber truck sales are down to 5000 giveaways

Have a client that did that. And was considering getting more. I told him to get the hummer it’s bigger and sits higher. They were basically the same price.

At 5k sales a quarter run rate. They have a 6 quarter backlog of inventory.

Much flop, such wow. 🤯

If that’s the case I’m fairly certain at least half of them are in Orange County. I can’t drive anywhere without seeing one.

Gifts are absolutely taxable. The IRS considers the fair market value of non-cash prizes (like cars or trips as taxable income. In the case of winning a contest, the recipient is the one who pays the tax.

Winning a contest is not considered a gift and is taxable. Gifts are not taxable to recipients. Are you banned in ChatGPT or something?

The hypothetical in my OP mentioned “contest” so that’s what was on my mind. You are right about the recipient of a cash gift not being taxed. donor is taxed.

Sorry for lashing out. Peace!

Wait, so it’s selling more trucks than any other company of a single model? 5000 is, the most? But less than they projected?

Basically a look I’m an idiot mobile I like it for ads

And bullying governments across the world into watering down their vehicle safety standards. Luckily, so far they've failed.

The same sort of morons who crash into parked cars and lampposts and scream that they "shouldn't have been there".

Fuck Ive forgotten all about hummer, wonder what they are up to nowadays, will have to surf their website. He still got the tax deduction for over 6k lbs and cargo space then too huh? Way better idea there sir, good advice.

At the shock of literally nobody

I'd be surprised if it was expected to sell more than a few thousand a year - it's clearly a novelty car

We do seem to be the Cybertrucks natural habitat. Enough 'techy' right wingers looking for a penis augmentation and a permissive climate that is at least less likely to cause the thing to spontaneously commit sudoku.

To be fair, there are a LOT of Americans who buy 'pavement princesses' - i.e. trucks that aren't so much meant for work as to project the image of a rugged manly man. Of course the Cybertruck fails to even project the image.

Well friend, I might judge you on your tastes but never on your judge of character.

People driving cyber trucks look like complete. Idiots while they’re doing it. I just don’t understand. I’d rather have a Porsche.

Not sure I fully agree with that. Ya for sure. But the majority of people I see with a truck (outside of business) use it once or twice a month for some project or cleanup or some purpose where are car will not work. And that is not a pavement princess. I think what a lot of people see is that the other 95% of the time they drive it, it is not for truck purpose. That does not make it a pavement princess. Just means they understandably do not want to buy a second vehicle for the times they do not need truck things.

What!? Shocking. I cannot believe a $100k dumpster on wheels doesn't have mass appeal. Wierd. No one could have seen this coming. No one.

I was at an event this weekend, a ribfest actually, and Tesla had like 10 Cybertrucks doing demos... most were just sitting in the lot not demo'ing... they must have spent a fortune to be there... all I could focus on where the insane dirty finger prints on the "trucks", the utterly terrible looks and the honest lack of interest frim anyone who wasn't a child. I parked my Sierra Denali beside one and it was obvious which one looked better

I'd be terrified to ride in this thing due it looking like the door or trunk will slice my fingers off. Hard pass, especially at $100k.