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Tesla Cybertruck

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Brainonska511 said:
Thanks, but trucks of any sort are just not on my list. 1 car household, and we bought an Elantra Hybrid last year. Works perfectly for our needs, from city/suburb tasks for 2, to camping and hiking up in New Hampshire.
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I live out in the hinterland (need to drive about 3 hours to find a town with Population over 20K ), where Pickups are very popular, but my neighbor, gets MUCH more capability/usage from from his small SUV/Crossover and a utility trailer, than any of the full size Pickup Bros in our neighborhood, and he gets much better MPG for day to day usage.

If I ever really felt I need a truck bed. I'd just get a Utility trailer.
 
Heartbreaker said:
I live out in the hinterland (need to drive about 3 hours to find a town with Population over 20K ), where Pickups are very popular, but my neighbor, gets MUCH more capability/usage from from his small SUV/Crossover and a utility trailer, than any of the full size Pickup Bros in our neighborhood, and he gets much better MPG for day to day usage.

If I ever really felt I need a truck bed. I'd just get a Utility trailer.
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That's where we ended up. We're station wagon people at heart. We have an FJ for offroading and it can pull a trailer. We had a pickup bed conversion trailer for awhile but ended up selling it because we wanted the space back. We can rent a lot of UHaul trailers for the cost of buying and the trailer goes away when we're done using it.
 
Heartbreaker said:
I live out in the hinterland (need to drive about 3 hours to find a town with Population over 20K ), where Pickups are very popular, but my neighbor, gets MUCH more capability/usage from from his small SUV/Crossover and a utility trailer, than any of the full size Pickup Bros in our neighborhood, and he gets much better MPG for day to day usage.

If I ever really felt I need a truck bed. I'd just get a Utility trailer.
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If that works for you it's a great solution. Wouldn't have worked for me because I needed 9k towing capacity and an 8' bed. While the trailer could handle heavy loads, it didn't work with the material lengths I often needed. Today I could make a small pickup work, or a utility trailer, but since I already have the full sized truck, there is no point to changing my setup.
 
Greenman said:
If that works for you it's a great solution. Wouldn't have worked for me because I needed 9k towing capacity and an 8' bed. While the trailer could handle heavy loads, it didn't work with the material lengths I often needed. Today I could make a small pickup work, or a utility trailer, but since I already have the full sized truck, there is no point to changing my setup.
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I asked my wife if I could finance $96k for a 470-mile electric truck that had a filled bed from a spare tire & extended battery & she just kinda looked at me funny, given that the monthly payment would be more than my current rent 😛
 
Neat factory tour:

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Exclusive Tesla Cybertruck Factory Tour Shows How The Engineers Made It Buildable - The Autopian

The Tesla Cybertruck has received tons of criticism for the build quality of its edgy, stainless-steel body, with loads of car websites ripping on prototypes and Elon Musk himself reportedly voicing his displeasure and mandating strict LEGO-like build quality standards. So it’d make sense if...
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I'M REALLY impressed with the engineering behind this thing!
 
Zorba said:
Why is it there to start with? Regardless, why does anyone like the idea of spending 50-100k on a car that can be completely controlled at the whim of a billionaire with the maturity of a teenage boy.
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And that's where the dichotomy lies: you don't get crazy neat stuff like a Cybertruck without out-of-the-box thinkers. The problem is that they also think out of the box in other ways too lol.

As far as why the app is there, two reasons:

1. Charging takes time, so you can watch movies while you want
2. The new ones have a rear screen for the kids, so they can watch movies or play games

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Off-road mode updates:

1. Compressor apparently takes forever
2. Compressor apparently can overheat
3. Now only 16" (not the advertised 17") of ground clearance


That's a LOT of extra clearance:

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No step bar to get in or interior handles to grab onto to help you get into the vehicle. This dude is 5' 9" for reference:

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In the Ford Bronco, you can get a variety of step bars & there are not one but TWO grab bars for getting into the vehicle:

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