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Maine Cybertruck Owner Sad Everyone Hates His Truck
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I have a cyber truck and it's amazing the disconnect between online and real life. This thread is evidence that online everyone hates it and thinks it's the worst thing ever. In person I can't go anywhere without someone wanting to ask me about it and gushing about how cool it is. Seriously, I constantly get thumbs up and smiles and "woah that's so cool who made it?" The sentry mode has seen many children pose in front of it while their parents take a picture.
The attention aside it is genuinely a good truck. 6ft bed, 120v and 240v outlets in the bed for power anywhere, 11000lbs towing capacity, 6000lbs bed capacity, 300 mile range, the battery storage to power my house for a month if I don't use A/C, a week with A/C, super fun and smooth driving, tight turn radius from the rear wheel steering, room for 5. If it looked like a normal truck but everything else was the same noone would care one way or the other.
Children taking photos with your car isn't the flex you think it is.
Coincidentally, and also anecdotally, I saw someone pee on a cyber truck the other day.
Everywhere I drive it makes people smile. Plenty of adults have posed with it too. Is making people smile a bad thing nowadays?
I pointed it out to someone in the car with me and my face probably had a smile, as I joked about how pictures don't do it service how ugly/odd it looked in person. Then we switched back to whatever topic we were talking about.
Some people like odd shapes, some people make fun of it, some don't care. There are plenty of things I'd never drive but might like to look at, some in appreciation, some in mockery.
My main issues with Teslas are company and owner issues. Issues with cutting corners, his involvement with manipulating governments for Lithium, and the wild way he hires and fires people due to ego (reportedly fired entire Supercharger group because lead wouldn't do anymore layoffs, and is desperately trying to rehire talent).
I can discuss all that stuff with people without a scowl on my face, because I'm laughing at such dumb decisions. I don't have any personal opinions about you really, other that you either don't know that stuff or don't care. I might make judgements if I confirmed you knew all that and still went for it, or if I knew you simped for him, but I couldn't make that call just seeing one out on the street.