| ▲ | motohagiography 17 hours ago |
| to me designers are the real architects of history, however, the cybertruck example as brash i disagree with for specific reasons. it is a perfect example of what it does without any deference to other design languages. instead of po-mo symbolism, it really is just the sufficient metal and glass to do the thing.
an essential truck is unsentimental working capital. its not a duck, its an undecorated shed. i think the design will age very well because there's nothing to add to it. |
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| ▲ | blt 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The design shows a fundamental misunderstanding of sheet metal. Flat sheet metal is weak. Only curved sheet metal can be strong. Designs that lack mechanical sympathy with the materials in use don't tend to age well. |
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| ▲ | analog31 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't disagree with you about its utilitarian aesthetics, even if it seems ugly to me. But an amusing irony is that most customers probably won't ever use it as a truck. |
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| ▲ | codr7 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's hands down the ugliest thing I've ever seen. |
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| ▲ | pcmaffey 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I call it the trash compactor | |
| ▲ | BoingBoomTschak 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | But at least it's not boring. I'd even call it audacious. Most of today's SUVs, you wouldn't be able to guess the brand/model if you took the badges away. | | |
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| ▲ | immibis 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Kei trucks are unsentimental working capital. Cybertrucks have been designed to look this way because someone thinks it sells. The panels come unglued and fly off because they glued panels on because they needed the truck to look that way because they thought that attracted customers. |
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| ▲ | bluGill 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Cybertruck looks that way because of compromises. They didn't think the shape would sell, they thought stainless steel would sell. The shape is a function of how hard it is to shape stainless steel. Likewise gluing panels on is required because stainless steel can't be welded. Because they refused to compromise on stainless steel they were forced to compromise elsewhere. | |
| ▲ | philipallstar 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Cybertrucks have been designed to look this way because someone thinks it sells No, I think it's to get the cost of an electric truck down. I've never heard anyone from Tesla say it looks that way because it'll sell better. It doesn't look like the other Teslas, which all look really nice, but are more expensive. | | |
| ▲ | vonmoltke 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > It doesn't look like the other Teslas, which all look really nice, but are more expensive. No, they're not. The price of a Cybertruck is in line with the price for a Model S or Model X, and significantly higher than a Model 3. | |
| ▲ | LightBug1 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Obviously it's subjective, but no ... the model 3 does not look really nice. The new generation with the facelift just crosses the borderline of acceptable, as does the newly face-lifted model Y. But the countless prior generation 3 and Y that litter our streets surely must be a marginal drag on the Tesla brand ... they're aging terribly. Which isn't hard considering my initial impression of them. The model S is literally the only car they got right. Let's not even talk about the CT. I can't even bring myself to utter that horizontal fridges name ... | |
| ▲ | immibis 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You know what's better at getting the cost down better? Not adding extra parts for aesthetics. Gluing on extra panels costs more than not gluing on extra panels. Also, making them smaller makes them cheaper. They're actually too big to fit in standard European parking spaces, so clearly they have no need to be as big as they are. Their design is all about aesthetics, but a type of aesthetics that is non-conventional in the car industry. |
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