Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck next year, according to CEO Elon Musk, who said on X that the company will use the factory space to build more two-seater Cybercab robotaxis.
The decision to wind down the futuristic, steel-clad EV comes after just a few short years of underwhelming sales. When Musk handed over the first few Cybertrucks in late 2023, he predicted Tesla would sell around 250,000 per year. It was supposed to be such a cornerstone of Tesla’s future that, before construction began, the company talked about its Texas factory as the “Cybertruck factory.” But Tesla has instead sold just tens of thousands — total — over the last three years.
Good. It’s a very lousy low-poly car anyway. My Mom would rather drive a used car from the past than some alleged “car of the future”.
The Pontiac Aztec and Subaru Baja await your arrival in ugly car heaven.
Honestly, I like the look of the cybertruck. I know it’s not the popular opinion, but I like that it challenges the boring cookie-cutter pickup truck design.
I think it bothers people that it doesnt fit the “traditional” idea of what a pickup should look like, but to me that’s a good thing. To me, the trad pickup design is ugly anyway. Ford F150? Ugly. Dodge Ram? Ugly. Chevy Silverado? Ugly! So yeah, the minimalist wedge-shape is a great way to shake up field. It’s a fun departure.
I also like that it’s an EV pickup. But I wish it were better at being an EV pickup, instead of a glorified grocery-getter. It seems to fail at simple hauling / off-road / towing tasks.
I do not like the build quality either. Or the stainless steel bodywork. Or the plastic bits. But many of these things could have been refined in later model years.
And of course the elephant in the room: Musk put his musky stank all over it. It’s synonymous with him, and he’s a festering Nazi shit-pustule. So that kills it for me.
I wish some other EV brand would have done the Cybertruck. I think in the right hands it would have been better.
Yeah, I agree with you. People would mock how it looked, and still do. I think it looks fine. It’s not a very popular opinion, I realize.
Given what I’ve read about it, I’m not sure I’d want to even take a short ride in it. Seems like it has many safety concerns. I have no idea how it’s even on the road…
And that’s before you get into all the many issues of the asshole Elon.
Yeah, it looks cool. As a concept. If it were just a design in a video game, I’d just shrug.
But it literally is the worst truck ever, made by one of the most evil men ever. Good fucking riddance.
I agree with you. It piqued my interest when it was first being teased and musk still had some plausibility that he was competent and well intentioned.
I live 8 miles from work in a rural area. I drive gravel roads every day, get feet of snowfall at a time, and I also have a need to regularly hall large materials. I recently got into a new to me 10 year old truck but was driving a sedan before that which was unsafe due to the heavy snows. I’d love a real electric truck and one that doesn’t have a stupid bed height. What I need isn’t available but there’s no reason it shouldn’t be. A 4x4 slate (w/o Bezos connected preferebly) would be sweet, a hylux champ, or a properly designed and built cybertruck would be sweet. I don’t want all the bells and whistles and gimmicks, just a cost appropriate tool to get me from a to b and to support the work I do.
Tldr: I like it , but actually I don’t.
More like “I don’t like it, but it had potential”
Holy shit. They were still making new ones?!
Not really. There’s a massive stockpile of them that they’re trying to flog to the US govt. That might have become much more difficult since last week.
That might have become much more difficult since last week.
Only slightly.
For the most part, choosing which vehicles a federal agency will buy is entirely an Executive Branch thing.
yes
I guess the demand for wheeled dumpsters wasn’t as high as they thought.
their “guaranteed buyers” just lost the midterms
For $120,000 I can but do much cooler vehicles.
For $120K you can buy a vehicle that’s an actual car, not a meme gag peddled by a wannabe fascist who wants to fuck children but was so cringe the rest of pedoes didn’t want him in rape island.
You can do much cooler vehicles for a fraction of that, pretty low bar.
My dream is a '59 mercury pickup and a big fuck-off electric industrial power plant.
I only need about 50km of travel in my everyday life andI think the hilarity of an ancient pickup with an EV drivetrain is worth any of the hassles I will run into.
I’m almost ready to pull the trigger on the truck (maybe at tax time) and then settle in for a 5 year project electrifying it.
You can find much cooler vehicles on the Power Wheels shelf of a big box store.
Pow-pow-power Wheels!
You couldn’t pay me to take that hideous Nazi trash can.
you might get locked in it when it catches on fire.
Hey now, hand me £250m and I’ll take one…to a firing range. That could be really fun actually! And then I’d have enough money to not worry about living my life the way I want.
I’d take one and angle grind the whole body off to replace it with a classic truck or big old caddy or something.
An EV el Camino would be pretty rad.
The rear steering would be a pain to work around though, and with the shitty dash and steering wheel.
dont forget that hilarious giant windshield wiper.
It’s going to need an open source power distribution system to work. And I’d just bring along all the electrics and mechanisms besides HVAC from the body donor.
Used ones are already going for under $40k.
If it goes under $5k, I might actually be tempted to buy one to use as a gas-free hay hauler.
people buy it used?
Not very readily. Which is why used prices are so low.
Like a Rivian. Highly recommend.
It’s like a soapbox car drunkenly cobbled together the night before the derby.
That sounds wheeeeely bad! I’ll show myself out…
I’m tired of Dad jokes like this.
Get used to it. They will be around for some time.
heh that gave a giggle. thanks.
Elon demonstrates sales projections.
Are you suggesting he did not see that sales drop coming?
Is the chart supposed to go up and to my Reich or yours?
Is it cut off, or should it go fuhrer?
It doesn’t matter, and frankly you should know that.
Weird the article didn’t mention that piece
He thought sales would be up here…
Well, that took longer than expected.
Fortunately they are so terrible and Tesla is so terrible at providing parts that these will all be off the road within a few years.
I recall someone fantasizing about piles of flipped cybertrucks. Well, in written form, forgot if on here or elsewhere. Welp, their dream is ruined.
Womp
Remember to point and laugh at every Cybertruck you see (while you can)! They knew who Musk was, and supported him anyway…
I actually saw one of those ‘I bought this before we knew he was crazy’ stickers on one in the wild. Like, no buddy, you were fully aware of the monster he was at that point.
Right, that would only work for the oldest Teslas
God i hate theae stickers. Who’s “we”?
Tge other day i was behind a tesla who had a Nikola Tesla sticker on the back that said: &%#@ Edison. I absolutely loved the irony hatin on an imposter while driving the car of an absolute imposter shitstain.
Theres one that I pass sometimes that has a sticker that says “relax its a car. not a political statement”. Like, no dude. You knew what you were doing. We all know what you were doing.
Ignorance of the
lawNazi is no defense.
I legit thought i was the only person who did this! A guy near my office owns one and started to recognize me in my lesser ev and now it’s a race to see if i can point and laugh before he flips me off. Now i change it up on him and shake my head at him while wearing the biggest, shit eating grin.
Maybe it’s petty of me. Or maybe we need to bring public shaming back to counteract the Elmo brainworm all these sycophants have🤷🏻♂️
Open season on cybertruck owners. The car isn’t as ugly as who they bought it from.
My friends and I recoil in disgust whenever we see one. I hope Cybertruck drivers see nothing but grossed out faces. It’s the visual equivalent of stepping in dog shit
I’ve just been flipping them the bird from the get go. Going to continue that strategy
Please be careful out there. There’s crazy people everywhere! Sure, they may go to prison if they shoot you, etc, but you only get one life…
Point at them with your middle finger.
and when you look at the drivers, you know its the same type that would drive a f150, or one of those hideous giant lifted trucks. or its an asian women for the most part asian women seems to be obssesed with driving one.
I’m kind of surprised at how many of them I see. I’m not sure it’s just that they stand out so much or if I live in an area (Southern California) where they’re more popular, but they’re so awful in person that it’s hard to get my head around.
I live in Denver and I feel like I see them a lot as well.
I guess if I think about it, it’s a tiny fraction of the number of accords or stuff that I see. But their awfulness stands out so much that they always register.
Norcal here. I see them kinda frequently. But we live in the most populous state in the nation and there’s a lot of people here with funny money. I’m sure they’re much rarer in other parts of the country. Definitely gonna be rarer now, lolz.
I fortunately have never seen one IRL, even living in a European city where people have more cents than sense.
From what I understand, Cybertrucks aren’t even allowed in Europe because they don’t meet European car safety standards.
I just call em Andriod Buttplugs
I think that’s a sex doll.
If they plan to stop sometime next year, what the heck will they do with the unsold ones they currently park and the surplus they are producing until the closure?
Donate to cities looking to improve waste services
I can’t wait for my kids to finally stop pointing them out and saying, “Dad, there’s that car you hate.”
I like loudly pointing them out to my wife with, “Hey babe, look. It’s one of those Nazi cars!”
It’s really fun when there are other people around, especially the owner.
Pretty soon you will Nazi them any more. They will be Reich there with the delorean in terms of rarity.
I’m a school bus driver. The only cars that elementary school kids get excited about are the ones that piss me off: cybertrucks, teslas in general, corvettes, lamborghinis. No other cars exist for kids.
I see them all over the place. A day doesn’t go buy that I don’t see a few. They had sales.
I suspect the real problem are the sales patterns, which are probably very bad. Because of Musk’s increasingly poor reputation, they’ve probably completely stopped selling new ones, and nobody wants used ones, so why build more dead inventory?
His terrible behavior has destroyed his car company, which is on a steady, inexorable slide toward bankruptcy. Trump will keep Tesla alive through the 2028 election, for access to his money, but once Trump is out of office, Tesla will go off the cliff.
I often see one when driving around, but I think there are 1 or 2 nearby and so I see the same ones over and over.
The cybertruck undersold even the Edsel, which was shorthand for epic failure in the auto market…their sales numbers were brutal, even if propped up by sales (20%!) to other Elon companies.
If Musk was halfway smart he’d sell control of Tesla to one of the other majors (yes I know it has a listed value greater than most of them). By handing it over to someone who isn’t overtly a nazi the brand could be revitalised and Muskrat could bank the money, have his remaining tesla shareholding grow again and make billions off SpaceX as well.
Fortunately he’s not that smart
