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alooPotato an hour ago

Dang you nailed my profile perfect.

I bought one and its the best car I've ever had. Event though I was never a "truck" buyer it checked off all my needs: - space for wife, car seats + another adult when needed - haul around my kids, 4 bikes, skis, camping gear, etc. - drives itself - we do a ton of road trips - luxury - electric, tired of going to gas stations

Wasn't another car on the market that checked those boxes.

Have you ever driven one? They are amazing to drive.

xerox13ster 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

>luxury

This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke and you aren't so indiscriminate and unrefined as to actually be calling anything made by this company "luxury".

Every single Tesla I have had the great misfortuned to be a passenger in has felt threadbare and stripped down. Constructed of the same terrible, cheap ruggedized plastic as the most budget trim sedan of the mid-00s. I'm talking the subjective experience of the cheap-ass plastic interior door paneling of a 2004 Hyundai Accent L....in 2017.

Sure, the interior is spacious, but not in a way that feels good. It's spacious in the way that the seating on an Allegiant flight is spacious, and just as rigid.

Whenever we go around a curve in one I feel like I'm being thrown into the doors and they could just pop open.

Sure there's a touchscreen tablet, but that's not luxury, they sell touchscreen tablets for $25 at Walmart on black friday.

They are the most value-engineered (as in "how can we provide the minimum while charging the maximum") vehicles I have ever experienced, and I am counting every budget trim of every cheap sedan of my entire life experience inclusive of the US Auto Industry collapse.

Robdel12 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Literally everything you listed can be done with any SUV.

BobaFloutist an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Or, better yet, a minivan.

People think they want a pickup truck, or an SUV, or a Cybertruck, but what they really want is a hybrid Toyota Sienna.

alooPotato 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

can't fit 4 bikes in a minivan . on my previous SUV I had a rear rack and its such a PITA

alooPotato 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

have you used FSD? Have you used the best self driving from other manufacturers? I have. Its no comparison. I turn on FSD and it drives me driveway to driveway to a place in the mountains 4 hours away. I don't touch the wheel.

cucumber3732842 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You "can" put three kids in the back of a Honda Civic. You "can" tow 10k with a Ford Ranger. They're both kind of a sucky experience for all parties involved and it makes perfect sense why people who can afford a vehicle with way more capacity go that route. It makes things that take care and precision and thought as mindless as throwing a light switch. They're not paying for capability, they're paying to make it easy.

I own a station wagon, a minivan, a pickup truck and a hatch (and my spouse drives a boring crossover). I completely understand why "buy a crew cab truck" has become the norm for people who want to just write one check a month to cover every use case.

Additionally, frequent "truck" usage is an absolute menace on wagon/minivan interiors.

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malfist an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And the fact that your purchase is supporting a guy that literally threw two nazi salutes at an inauguration? Is that facsist alignment a feature or a bug for your "best car you've ever had"?

alooPotato 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

still the best car

brazukadev 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

the fact that there are only 173 RWD Cybertrucks sold tells another story.

avgDev 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How is the Cybertruck luxury? The electric motors feel nice....but the car is so far from luxury. Have you ever been in an S class? A 7 series?

Literally most SUVs will tick most of these boxes at a significant discount.

alooPotato 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

I have owned a S class, a porsche 911 and several luxury SUVs.

"most of these boxes" - I need all.

10xDev an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Wasn't another car on the market that checked those boxes.

Outside of "drives itself", I fail to see how much of what you described is unique. Seems very ordinary.

JKCalhoun 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I have another box on my checklist:

[x] $94K and $52K deprecation in the first 5 years.

alooPotato 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

FSD was a big draw for me. have you used the latest on hw4 cars?

DetroitThrow an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Nothing fits in this category, it's revolutionary (if you ignore every electric SUV on the market) !!

Buyers who got an expensive and gaudy pile of shit will never want to admit their pile of shit doesn't smell to themselves.

alooPotato 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

i didnt care about looks. i just cared that it did the things I needed

selectodude an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

F150 Lightning checked all those boxes and also isn’t a complete piece of shit that sheds parts on the road.

alooPotato 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

also, the lighting is discontinued

malfist an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As an owner of the f150 lightning, I get a chuckle whenever SpaceX uses them to do something a cybertruck can't.

alooPotato 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

cant drive it self

selectodude 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Blue Cruise is far more upfront about its abilities than whatever deadly beta garbage Tesla keeps tossing out there.

alooPotato 11 minutes ago | parent [-]

ok so? my point was no other car can drive itself door to door, blue cruise included.

fragmede 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Blue Cruise on the F150-Lightning is pretty capable, and it also supports a comma.ai, which is better in a practical sense than FSD.

I have a friend with a CyberBeast and a friend with an F150-Lightning. The acceleration on the CyberBeast is absolutely magnificent and FSD is very capable. However as a truck, the frunk on the F150 is way more useful. The F150 is a better truck, but I'd say the Cybertruck is really good big weird car.

nullocator 15 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, it can

alooPotato 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

no it cant

lawn an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This surely must be sarcasm.

Right...?

alooPotato 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

nope. i'm literally the guy the GP is referring to :)

erulabs an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

no no no you have to ignore that people like the product, its more important to mock production manufacturing from the armchair.

I personally don't like the cybertruck and wish they made something much closer to Rivian, but getting upset about a product you don't like is a small man ting