Despite the subjectively awful looks, the CT somehow managed nearly 2M "pre-orders." Granted that's just a refundable $100 deposit; but it suggests that based on the original price sheet, a LOT of people were interested despite the polarizing design. Let me rephrase that:
Potentially 2M rubes were willing to buy a fugly ass truck because the initial price was sensationally good. (We know they were never going to convert all of the pre-orders into purchases, but even a low bar like 25% would be half a million vehicles.)
Once the very cheap CT out to be vaporware, the true market revealed itself. Besides the flawed price, there are other key factors such as "range anxiety" and BEVs being undesirable in the core pickup truck market. Another way to put this is that if Tesla could fix the price problem (say offer a single motor variant for $55k), they might sell a few to buyers like @Kaido .
But they still have a huge problem with traditional pickup truck buyers, and now with BEV purchasers who will never support Elon.
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