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by M2Ys4U 794 days ago
Did anyone actually believe that any part of the Cybertruck was high quality?

From my POV outside of the Musk cult of personality it was painfully obvious that the thing was a dud from day one.

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Well the surface oxides are the finest oxides of any vehicle, possibly behind Datsun.
Every Tesla I've sat in feels like it should cost $20,000. Like a Fiat.
For the unfortunate times where I need to use a Lyft, and it also happens to be a Tesla, I am ALWAYS shocked at how cheap the whole vehicle feels. They're also some of the roughest feeling rides I've ever had, I can feel every bump on the road.

(Additionally I always have to play the fun "how do I open this door from the outside again?" game. But maybe my driver was right and it's "really obvious." ...)

I've owned a Fiat and a Tesla. The Fiat was better put together.
The promise of the truck was as is typical more 'rugged' than 'high quality'. I never considered myself part of the target market, so my reaction was more 'bold choice, lets see if this pans out' unironically.
The price tag implied a high quality, but I think consumers have become aware that high price tags aren't indicative of quality.
At this stage of EV development, the high price (hopefully) implies a lot of high-quality batteries.
Wrapped in a rusty foil coffin with this level of engineering
Yeah, the mental state of someone who bought one had a high quality.
Software is likely vastly better than with any other auto company
I don't agree with all their UX/UI decisions, but I will grant you that Tesla has better -aesthetics- than most of the auto manufacturers.

That doesn't correlate to inherent software quality, though.

Really? Because as was recently brought to popular attention, the software requires the car doors to stay closed to update itself, which in my view is some real Windows 95-level engineering. Not impressed.
Well that’s not true- I frequently access the Tesla while it’s doing an update.
Well, greater quantity (both static and flow rate), but greater quality is less clear.
The only car I've had software that worked at all in, and I've owned a Tesla, was a Citroen. And that was because it had no software worth mentioning other than a BT receiver.