Seems that fuh2.com is defunct
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I live in rural Indiana. You know what those big-ass trucks can do? Haul things.
Unlike cyber ‘trucks’.
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The Hilux is notably missing in most Cybertruck debates.
On that note, James May actually reviewed the Cybertruck, and manages to have a lot of thoughtful things to say while still acknowledging the shittiness of Musk, the build quality issues, etc.
Cybertruck owners are of course famously silly for trying to do truck stuff with it (or alternately buying a 6 figure truck for tooling around suburbia), but I came to appreciate Captain Slow’s perspective: It’s totally mental, and totally mental car ideas are worth trying.
You don’t have to buy one, but some of the weird ideas may prove to be worthwhile and show up in vehicles actually worth buying.
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That’s what concept cars are for. A lot of companies have done interesting things with them – the BMW GINA comes to mind as almost the opposite of this thing – without necessarily pretending they’re functional vehicles people should buy.
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That Battlezone pic brings back some very old, happy memories for me!
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True - the weird ideas start with concept cars, but they have to be proven somehow by showing up in a production vehicle. The manufacturer can do a lot of R&D about reliability and usability and TCO but won’t really know the full story about their designs until tens of thousands have been on the road for years. Or more simply: Will this idea sell?
The Pontiac Aztek is the other car which gets brought up in the Cybertruck debate - its own controversial car, but the people who owned them really loved them. Fairly ugly, but great at doing outdoorsy stuff, and a weird concept which worked well (just didn’t sell well).
I could rattle off dozens of weird cars I love randomly seeing on the street. Maybe one day Cybertruck will be one of them, but at the moment it’s solidly in “facepalm” territory still.
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A car that no non-douchebag will ever drive.
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Apparently they’ve got street cred now.
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I happened to see a cybertruck in “Traffic Cone Orange” a couple weeks ago.
‘ugly’ is not the term I’d use- ‘abomination’ would be a better one.
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Many entries in /r/cyberstuck on Reddit, and vantazach on Threads suggest they may not be around long enough…
And many, many more stories of bricked rides 
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Yes, but the system worked! He only had to wait 90 minutes to get towed to the service center, and then two days for repair, after his two-day-old car bricked itself as a result of a completely unremarkable cabin adjustment!
This is fine!
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Somehow I highly doubt it out-brakes or out-turns those other vehicles. Strapping a rocket engine on your car will make it pretty fast, but outside of the Bonneville Salt Flats or an airport runway, you typically need to do more than simply “go that way really fast”.
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or pull a 30ft boat out of the water up a steep, wet boat ramp. from what I’ve read, the cyber… whatever, will drop the backend right off under those kinds of forces in doing what my Tacoma does several times a year.
eta: and the Tacoma is not what you would call a “big-ass truck”!
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It probably won’t last as long as a Trabant.
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Somehow in pictures the silly shape makes the Cybertruck look like a toy, but if you ever see one in person they’re also unnecessarily huge
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A co-worker recently bought a Model 3 “Performance Edition” that’s supposedly able to go up to 162 mph. There’s a dry lake bed about an hour or so drive from his house where it would actually be legal to try it out just to see what it’s like, but he says he won’t do it because he doesn’t want it to get dirty. So it’s another example of how these ridiculous specs aren’t really needed or used by anyone, even the folks who paid extra for that kind of speed and live near a place with no speed limits.
We live in interesting times. A new Prius Prime will out-accelerate Magnum P.I.'s iconic Ferrari 308 GTS, and I don’t remember people ever thinking that the average person would need a higher performance car than that guy.
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They are massive, and yet they have tiny little headlights and taillights making it look even more comically dumb.
Not only that, but driving at those speeds is going to sap the battery really quick, and I’d be willing to bet the stock tires aren’t rated for those speeds either. But, yeah, don’t wanna get it dirty!
It was quick for its time, but it was also saddled by 1980s-era emissions controls, tires, chassis, and aerodynamics. We’ve learned a lot since then, which is how you can drive a grocery getter that can smoke just about anything made 20 or 30 years ago. But it’ll never have that kind of charm or desirability either.
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And simultaneously very squat, which makes me wonder how any guy (or gal) over 5’7" is managing to drive in it.
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Saw yet another one, this time backing up to a spot at Starbucks last Sunday. Three of us were sipping lattes there in a mini-alumni meeting when we spotted the beast. The satin black paint job (first time I’d seen that) only worsened its appearance, making it look like the vigilante “hero” car in a low-low-budget late-70’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi film… a definite bomb at the box office. The 20-ish driver stopped to show a couple of ladies there (their own meet-up?) all the tech goodies. From one in our group: “Sure. Give them the tour. Flaunt it now while it’s still intact.”
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