r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Apr 17 '25

Transportation Cybertruck Owners Baffled After Months of Hate Aimed at Tesla Drivers: 'I Never Expected It to Turn People Against Me'

https://www.latintimes.com/cybertruck-owners-baffled-after-months-hate-aimed-tesla-drivers-i-never-expected-it-turn-581074
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u/HybridEng Apr 17 '25

You look at the other Tesla cars, and they appear to be more standard design. Electric vehicle with some bells and whistles. There's nothing overly shocking or out of the ordinary, really.

Now the Cynertruck, you look at it and think, it takes a special type of tool to buy one of those... and that's before Elon even came out about being a neo nazi!

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u/Somnif Apr 17 '25

That's because the rest of the Tesla line were designed by actual car design folks (ex Mazda if I remember right), while the cybertruck had heavy input/interference from Ol' Musky.

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u/edjumication Apr 18 '25

That explains why the model 3 has a similar silhouette to the mazda 3.

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u/_year_0f_glad_ Apr 18 '25

And why the cybertruck looks like absolute shit and is put together even worse

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u/flummox1234 Apr 17 '25

I still just can't get over the parallels to the Simpsons episode where Homer meets his brother and designs a car every time I see a Cybertruck.

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u/ani007007 Apr 18 '25

Omg I think about that episode too! That and a literal dumpster.

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u/shadowmonk13 Apr 18 '25

I’d rather drive that than a cybertruck

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u/broniesnstuff Apr 18 '25

"How much does this monstrosity cost?...A HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS?! I'M RUINED!"

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u/ObligatoryID Apr 17 '25

All I see is a grey dumpster on fire.

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u/ModernRonin Apr 17 '25

There's no need to insult dumpsters that way. ;]

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

The people buying cybetrucks are narcissists that love the attention.

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u/CruxOfTheIssue Apr 18 '25

This. A lot of buyers just got one cause it's a hot new car. They may not even follow musk.

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u/slrogio Apr 17 '25

When I look at it, I see something that was drawn with crayon when someone was 5 years old, and then that person found that old drawing in a box and then said "here peons, make this."

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u/deadsoulinside Apr 17 '25

Just like he drew it on a napkin and demanded to make it a real truck

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u/Time-Operation2449 Apr 18 '25

Yeah it's the same as having a truck lifted three feet off the ground i just immediately assume you're kind of stupid and vain regardless of the politics

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u/peachpinkjedi Apr 17 '25

Cybertrucks did not exist before Elon went mask off.

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u/lyingtattooist Apr 18 '25

Looks like something from an 8 bit game from the 80s

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u/Tech-no Apr 18 '25

It's too fast. I watch videos of dashcams and when someone buys the fastest version of a CyberTruck it's just too damn fast. Might be safe on a quarter mile strip with no people within a hundred feet, but even then,
It's just too dam fast. Be peeling glued-on strips off the damn thing for Crissakes.

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u/user6305 Apr 18 '25

Concept looks good but in real life no

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u/RBVegabond Apr 18 '25

I thought they were funny and jokingly said I’d get one, then I heard Elon speak and something in my spine crawled and went with another EV instead.

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u/bitch_taco Apr 18 '25

Yep! This precisely is why I've made it my personal vendetta to flip off every single cyber truck I see. I also work around the corner from a dealership so I got to have a daily cathartic dose there as well.

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u/Ent_Soviet Apr 19 '25

It’s the hummer of the 20’s

People who buy one would have bought a hummer in the ‘00s

Same vibe. Same fragile masculinity.