[IceHegel]

I would buy a Cybertruck tomorrow if it had a gas engine. I would buy a $10,000 or $15,000 gas generator add-on if it enabled unlimited range (provided I have gasoline).

There are just too many places, even in California, where I have to limit my trip because of electric range.

I'm surprised no one has done the generator.

[marticode]

It's ugly, poorly built, expensive and not very good as a truck. A gas engine will not fix all these flaws.

[misiti3780]

i actually love the way it looks. i dont own it but i find it some inspiring that a company had to have audacity to create something so futuristic - what are you driving that is so beautiful ?

[PTOB]

1958 Chevy Corvette. Looks way more futuristic.

[misiti3780]

maybe at the time, not anymore. that car is ugly.

[PTOB]

Why is it ugly?

[misiti3780]

i find all older cars to be ugly. but it's obviously subjective. (the same way you find CT to be ugly!)

[ryukoposting]

I suppose there's no accounting for taste.

I don't find the idea all that audacious. Several EV trucks were already in the works. The Cybertruck is unique in form, but certainly not in function. There's precedent for sloppily-made stainless steel wedge-shaped American cars [2] thought up by executives on too many drugs [1].

The execution? Whoever figured out how to get a stainless steel wedge on stilts through NHTSA testing deserves a raise. That's sorcery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean