“It’s a pickup truck; it’s not made for two-lane roads.” I dunno, two-lane roads are just about everyone in the American west. A visibility problem on two-lane roads is a big problem if you are doing normal truck things.
@@tianikane3312 They why is it so big? You'd think a "city truck" should be smaller. Regardless every car should reasonably be able to drive on a normal road.
@@browneyeofsauron1244 Yeah unfortunately most trucks in America are like that at the moment, and most people buying them don't even use them for towing or anything truck related 😂
15:15 "Almost completely blocks the oncoming traffic in most corners." Well don't expect to take this truck camping, then. Also, he's speeding and laughing on a downhill run in a vehicle he can't see out of. Real world drivers are gonna kill people. Starting with themselves.
@RawandCookedVegan I guess you haven't ever actually used them, especially outside of an urban environment. They get dirty or wet as you drive, and they don't work so well.
@@barrydworak I haven't n I wouldn't pay 100 k for this. But I like the closing comment. Tesla attempted something different in many ways at the design, structural and electrical level. This is praiseworthy and moving the automotive engineering ball forward. Legacy auto has been too complacent.
Why didn't they tow anything or take it on a dirt road? Its a truck, but they are reviewing it mostly as a city car. 'Its a truck... Not for two lane' what?!
It's main problem, or some will say feature. For most of the douches who will own one it will be their first truck so they have no idea what good is in that sense. I heard that bit about 2 lane and I thought exactly the same thing. A few years ago the beemer douches migrated to Tesla, now they'll be in these. If you own a real 4WD get ready to pull a lot of these out of the mud.
It actually really really sucks as a truck. Most people who own one will confirm it’s just too damn heavy and too low to be a good truck. It’s awful for off roading and the bed while a decent size is a nightmare to reach in and out of. It all form and no function. Most owners will tell you that it’s just a much bigger “insert Tesla model here”
Apparently the wheel covers have been recalled because the covers were cutting into the sidewall of the tire. And speaking of tires, will an owner have to buy the funky tires from Tesla? What will the cost be for a set of new shoes for the truck?
Running through tires is one of the biggest complaint of Tesla owners. In my *"**#Wheels** playlist"* there are four channels complaining about them having to change tires on the Teslas frequently. And on the *"Whamm Bamm Tesla Cam channel"* The Teslas are forever hydroplaning and getting in accidents. While the cars around them are still driving perfectly on a rainy road.
@@icosthop9998 the main tyre makers now make EV tyres and are marked as such and last as long as normal tyres. The bigger issue is that because the acceleration is so fast people can´t resist trying it out and that will reduce your tyre life. This truck does 0-60 in 2.9 seconds. That´s the same as a Lamborghini Adventador
@CarAndDriver 15:00 "if you are sensitive to outwards visibility" the A pillar cause very poor diagonal visibility, which makes it dangerous in city traffic. CarAndDriver why are you sugar coating this?
Reviewer‘s and influencers have learned that if they talk badly about the product. They don’t get the vehicles to pretend that they’re being honest reviewing
cameras in normal modern cars are VERY useful for backing up. Over the years I had 3 accidents like that before cameras-too confident or lasy to get out and LOOK. Cameras for front vision, not so much. The sound system must be incredible but I would never use it except in stop-and-go. I like hearing things.
Democrats support EV and currently hold congress, the house, and the president office. Jesus F-ing Christ, even when democrats hold all the power against the weak and pathetic GOP, they still blame republicans. Joe Biden came out last week and actually said the economy is bad because of Trump, despite being in office for 4 years and sending about $200 billion to Ukraine, Israel, AND Palestine. I’m not for either party, but come on!
Yes fly by wire in a plane seems and is safe in a plane. The aviation industry has standards and the planes are inspected and maintained quite vigorously. In some person's vehicle I feel after time these systems will be prone to issues from improper maintenance. Have you seen the miled out vehicles on the roads today? When the cost to maintain these systems is seen some people will be lax in upkeep of vehicles. No mechanical backup is not a good idea.
these comments are very ignorant. there are lots of advantages to drive by wire, (manufacturing, cost, reliability, driver experience, etc.) why would you think its a bad thing? Because its popular to hate on Tesla now?
Fly by wire aircraft are generally also quad redundant and your pilot won't take off if one of the four systems is down. I'd bet that Tesla's steer by wire has no redundancy.
Wish you had tested the wiper so that you might see where the fluid drains down behind the frunk and eventually out of the vehicle. Or checked for rust as many reviewers have found.
@@royhoward4798there are different stainless steel grades and I’m sure that this truck will be rusting from within. Witnessed this first hand on so called stainless steel rusting from within…..GARBAGE!!
Saw my first one today in Apex, NC. I am ambivalent. The styling is not my bottle of beer. The young man inside looked cartoonishly tiny framed by the front side glass. All the panels looked dirty. I am sure that he is happy with his pavement princess. Bless his heart.
Lol, the dual steer motor quip about airplane reminds me of an old saw about twin engine aircraft: Don't worry, if one engine fails, the second has more than enough power to get you to your crash site.
@@TheRealColt45 and you never driven in the winter months up North. Are you some Tesla owner, employee , or influencer ? That is what trucks are meant for. To get dirty , to be washed, and to tow things. Duh.
@@serafinacosta7118 lol yes. 😅😅. Those are the most basic things you would do with the truck thus my sarcastic response. We already know of one cybertruck being bricked simply by going through a regular car wash and anyone who has tried to tow anything with the cybertruck has ended up with less than 100 mi of range. It's a joke. And actually I live in the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada where we typically get about 600 inches of snow per year so I know what I'm talking about with winter driving. 😉
C'mon, Hagerty was a paid campaign. It was an ad for the CT and not much else. Friends keep friends honest by telling them the truth. Hagerty did no such thing.
"Now please screw it back into the hole in the battery bracket, failure of the battery bracket keeping the battery from falling out on the road is not covered by your warranty"
I generally consider myself "sensitive to outward visibility" when I'm piloting 4 tons of metal down the road I share with other human beings. Interested in what's out there.
Having everything on the screen is absurdly annoying to me. California car guys always review these things in perfect conditions/"ideal" offroad conditions. Salt/mud gonna make that rearview camera useless real quick.
When CT starts to be involved in traffic accidents, you will start to see what a death trap it really is both for passengers and not least for oncoming traffic, pedestrians and cyclists, fortunate that the United States is so poorly designed that not many people walk and cycle, in now a reason why we in Europe are so lucky that we have reasonable traffic rules that make CT illegal over here in the western free world😁
It’s not about “getting money”, it’s that if a critic gives a bad review they will not be given early access to review a future car. Same thing happens with video games. It’s why so many modern games score high but have very low player retention rates.
Hey, don't knock the Aztec, I just bought one for $450. At that price, I figure it has to be a fine machine. (The ad said it just needed a few minor repairs and TLC 🤣)
@@brandall101 Oh it was stolen. Busted window and ripped ignition. Now why anybody would want to, is murky: it couldn't be as a getaway car, you'd stick out like driving an Edsel. I only bought it because of the all wheel drive. I'm building out a truck camper, and want tow the 4X4 and use it as a runabout when camped. A sort of ugly jeep.
Its not about what other people actually think, its about what you think they think. People who drive noisy motor cycles think everyone else admires them. People who experience a noisy motorcycle going past think the owner is an annoying menace to society.
Yeah i was Carlos would have given comparison to other trucks visibility, rather than just a vague statement of A pillars blocking during corners. Like how much does that happen with a typical crew cab truck.
Apparently they are recalling just under 4000 for the accelerator pedal issue; how may do they need to sell to break even on the amortized development costs? In virtually every other country with an advanced economy you would get a response that might indicate that you had lost your mind if you started talking about it being bullet proof. Likewise, if you say that it is a truck and therefore not suited to operating on a two lane road. Those points are purely academic, I admit, as in Europe it would considered to be a design optimised to injure pedestrians - so it isn't going to be on European roads, ever. And even it was, you would need a special licence to drive it.
@@glynnwright1699 I'd buy one in a second for use here in the US. It is the exact opposite of the 7000 lb cybertruck. Doug Demuro reviewed a BAC Mono here in CA. His expressions while accelerating are priceless.
Sorry, But just like a few dead pixels on a PC monitor draw your eye, both of those doors look like some kid has been playing with the stainless fridge and left dirty smudges on the edges.
what is "sensitive to visibility"? I mean, what does that mean for driving a car? Also, what was this review, no mention of the recalls, no mention of the problems, just... giggles over the acceleration? C&D I used to have a subscription.
This guys really trying to claim that since there’s copper in front bumper and not the door panels that it’s done in purpose and not just a hodgepodge of random metal 😂
People are already getting used to seeing them around town and there's only 3 of them here. The novelty is wearing off and no one gives a shit anymore. If you're buying one of these to get attention, your window is rapidly closing.
Why does your test truck have the recalled wheel covers? They're supposed to be redesigning them to get rid of the 7-pointed corners because they dig into the sidewalls. All of the ones I've seen on the road have no wheel covers.
Cool. Review a truck unlike any truck and do car things. Did you haul things that truck people do? Pull a trailer? What's the range pulling a travel trailer? Launch a boat?
A few years ago, I did volunteer work in the Crawford Museum’s shop. There was a Delorean DMC-12 in the collection. A light touch with Scotch Brite pad did a good job of cleaning up the stainless steel skin as needed. The DMC-12 panels were SS303, not that different from the Cybertruck “30X.” The difference was that the DMC-12 steel panels were a skin and not so structural as in the Cybertruck. The high sides on the Cybertruck seem to be a necessity owing to the unit body design more than aerodynamic benefit. The Ridgeline, Santa Cruze and Brat are all like that. The Maverick has not so high bed sides, but it is quite a bit smaller.
I saw one of these in person here in May 2024. I’m not a designer, but I noticed that this vehicle looks more like something made in a shop class by high school kids than a vehicle that is rolled off a modern assembly line after being built by professionals.. it actually looks like a crude kit car, all flat panels. I could see that that would eliminate stamping out curved fender shapes and curved door shapes and curved hood and trunk shapes. Having all flat surfaces. in person, it really struck me as looking like a body that a little kid and his dad made to fit on a go cart for the soap box derby.. I realize beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the movie star that this vehicle most closely reminds me of, is Frankenstein, with his flat head and forehead, Herman Munster.. i’m gonna say this now, but I have a feeling that Tesla is in big trouble, I just have a feeling that they may go bankrupt.. It would be similar to the white starship building line that built the titanic, they built the ship, and on it’s supposed maiden voyage, it sunk.. I just have a feeling this was a knee-jerk sad flash in the pan that we will be laughing about 10 years from now, and they will be making television shows, saying, remember the Tesla? And the yugo and the Edsel., and the Corvair, and the VW beetle.. I still think the electric car is not a bad idea once they solve the battery problem of safety, cost, range, and replacement, and dangers in the event of a crash… I just think it was too much of a rush job. They need to come up with a plan for recycling old batteries safely, they need to come up with a plan for charging stations, they need to come up with a battery that is not going to burst into flames, they need to come up with training for fire departments And emergency responders that can handle emergencies with people, trapped inside of crashed EVs.. Keep in mind that most fire departments depend on volunteers. These volunteer fire departments are not going to have sophisticated equipment specifically for handling runaway EV battery fires. China has already had over 21,000 lithium ion battery car fires in 2023 alone.. there needs to be a policy on where to park. Evies, you can’t really park them in parking garages.. you probably can’t park them near a petroleum tank farm or near a natural gas facility, I don’t think a gasoline or diesel fuel tank truck driver should be driving an EV to work.. I don’t think someone that works Near grain elevators should be driving an EV.. even someone that works for ammonium nitrate fertilizer companies should not be driving an EV.. neither should anyone that works for or near a company that handles ammonia or chlorine.. no electric truck should ever haul chlorine, if you have a CDL license, you know that you cannot drive a commercial vehicle through a tunnel with any amount of chlorine on your truck, not even 1 ounce of chlorine.. there needs to be technical training for people that are going to work on Evies. Right now that is nonexistent to a great extent… then there’s the tax base. People that drive, gasoline engine and diesel, powered vehicles, pay road tax with every gallon of fuel they buy.. EV owners pay zero towards highway and road maintenance through fuel taxes. Here in Pennsylvania I think the tax per gallon is something like $.58 per gallon… I would like to see the governments take over the casinos, and use our profits from the casinos to fund highway infrastructure instead of a few unknown investors, taking about $2 billion a month profit per casino on average, at least that is how much they report.. this whole mad dash towards electrifying all the cars in the country was too much too soon. I believe we will get to that point, maybe in about 40 or 60 years, but right now, it’s just not practical… if you’re going to argue for the switch to battery powered cars and trucks because they don’t produce pollution, think again, the results are out, it takes 40 metric tons of carbon producing effort to produce just one single EV battery for a car. And all of those electric cars that are not using gasoline or diesel, all they are doing is exporting their pollution to the power station that is burning fossil fuel to make the electricity to charge the EVs.. statisticians can come up with all kinds of facts and figures, but just remember who’s writing the reports. What is their agenda. figures, lie, and liars figure ..
@@serafinacosta7118 i’m glad I didn’t say it. Those are your words. I would say it’s a car designed by Practical engineers, not Creative designers.. although it is a practical design with all of those flat surfaces, including the windshield and rear window.. very practical, like working with flat aluminum house siding or sheets of plywood..that’s a great cost saving design, not many shaping and stamping stops along the assembly line. Not even painting. That is a huge savings in itself. practical ,if not very aesthetically appealing..
@@Jodyrides it is not practical either. Sharp corners were a rage in the 80’s. Around the 90’s every car maker moved away from sharp to round. Wind tunnel results and fuel saving mandates in passenger cars pretty much sealed the fate on sharp corners. Which designers knew intuitively during the 40’s. And then there is overhead design. Which in the Tesla truck needs to be overcompensated by increasing roof clearance height. They slope the horizontal lines severely to get favorable wind tunnel results. You can’t bend stainless steel sheets as well as you do with carbon steel. Hence your freedom to improve upon product design is severely limited. Corrosion is no longer an issue with car bodies. So having stainless steel is nothing short of a wet dream from a car maker who thinks he can walk on water. Until, there is , his competitors catch up with him. The design is horrible. Reminds me of brutalist architecture from the 60’s and beyond. Horrible. And unpractical.
This review had issues. They have a heavy vehicle and they tell you use the light vehicle regime and that is cool. You have to protect it from rain. You did not mention driving it at night. And then you compare a fly by wire plane that is constantly checked and repaired by trained professionals to a daily use likely bi-yearly serviced car driven by an normal person. I am personally not impressed.
Silliest statement ever, smh - just because YOU think that's the reason people buy a CT doesn't make it true, there's a MUCH larger segment that want THE BEST PICKUP ON THE ROAD, the SAFEST pickup on the market, GREAT performance and handling and much much more. That you're STUCK on the form over function says a lot about why YOU would buy a pickup and not everyone else's motivation!
Well, to be fair, so are 95% of consumer pickups since 2004. Pickups stopped being about functional use ability long ago and became emotional support vehicles for tender people.
The CyberTruck wasn't designed by truck users, it was created to satisfy the ego of Elon Musk. No way the everyday journeyperson truck owner is finding this vehicle a practical alternative to GM, Ram, Chevy or Ford trucks. But if you are creating 'content' then it's definitely the truck to buy.
Cybertruck this year will outsell Ford and GM electric pick up trucks this year combined. The dimensions were roughly based on a Ford 150. It´s difficult to bend stainless steel so that partially set the styling look and yes Elon did not want a normal pick up style. Had he done a Rivian with 12 V electrics and no steer by wire he would have had the cyber truck built 2 years ago. It does get a lot of attention wherever you go.
It's certainly true that it was Elmo's [fever] dream, including making it from stainless steel. His engineers and designers almost certainly pushed back on things like using stainless steel and the fugly design, but no one is going to tell Elmo anything once he's made up his mind.
@@topherdean1024 Then I will be sure to never hire you for any project, ever! Can't use someone who's judgment is so badly compromised that they are totally divorced from reality, you could never be trusted.
very few truck buyers are "journeypersons" who actually use their truck as a truck. CT is perfect for the suburban tech worker who wants to drive a sportscar disguised as a heavy vehicle.
9:02 it isn't accurate to say that the Cybertruck fell "short of its estimate" on your 75mph range test. The estimate you're speaking of is an average of multiple driving cycles which include lower speed city driving. So they never gave you, or anyone, an estimate for 75mph driving alone.
@15:15 Pickups are not meant for two lane roads??? You were doing good until then. @16:32 It's not just hobbled together??? What is it, a horse? The phrase is; " ... cobbled together" Cobbled not hobbled. Sigh. Millennials will be the death of us.
No ….it is not Millenials . It is Reaganomics … the MFs can’t read or write. Notice the “ scribe “ is a gray bearded dude. The Reaganomics part, I picked up on the “ City of Industry “ flick. When Skip goes to buy a gun from some homeboys . Go watch it. It is quotable. Starring Tim Hutton and Harvey Keitel.
Seen this Cyber Truck makes me appreciate even more the old reliable Toyota Land Cruiser Series 40 Pickup Truck ( the Brazilian version is known as the Bandeirante ) . That thing is unbreakable. Some of them equipped with a Mercedes Benz Diesel engine. Now those are trucks. This thing is a hipster trip to self indulgence. A fool and his money have parted ways. . You can’t haul anything worth a lick in this thing, nor you can drive through rough patches. And btw, the Toyota body construction handles the same amount of debris without a scratch. And it won’t rust. And “ IT LOOKS LIKE A REAL TRUCK “.
How about the terrible visibility in the truck, how about the open cockpit design with the rear window removed, not so great 🤔 How about the difficulties with water, getting stuck in sand, the feeling of weight when on wet roads or how the 9,000 lbs is difficult to stop in the event of loss of control or how it will blow through guard rails 🤔🤨
Have you driven a regular truck recently? Pickups have horrible visibility, that's why they are among the slowest vehicles on the road. They have gotten so big in the past decade it has only made this fact worse. Unless you have something really large to tow or work in a trade where the bed is a necessity driving a pickup for a daily is ridiculously expensive. Don't even get me started how bad they are off road. If you don't believe me try driving one down a trail lined with trees! I wouldn't buy a cybertruck for the same reasons I wouldn't buy any other pickup.
The bullet proof part is just to show how tough the exterior is. It's so tough that it can stop bullets, not that you should go get shot in it. why is that so hard to understand?
@@rustygear447 Making cybertrucks like this is one of the dumbest ideas ever. It is still going to get dented and warped in collisions, and since those panels are welded onto the chassis as this video says, you're gonna want to just ditch this thing and replace it with an ICE car when you get the repair costs estimate. Minor dents are also not a significant issue. Only OCD people really care about those. My car has a bunch, and I hardly ever even notice those. The bullets used to do the demonstration of those panels being "bulletproof" were also not the type that would be most commonly used by criminals, meaning that this whole song and dance about bulletproof panels is really just a b.s. gimmick. Criminals would go with the cheaper bullets, those being full-metal jackets rather than hollow-points (which are like less than half the price of hollow-points), especially given that FMJs penetrate stuff far better. From the tests that I have seen, I strongly doubt that those panels would stop FMJs, seeing how hollow-points came close to punching through and failed to do so clearly on account of flaring far out and flattening as they are supposed to even when they hit very soft stuff such as flesh. Sure, regular panels on old-school ICE cars are nowhere nearly as tough, but it is cheap and easy enough to remove and replace them. That makes them a much better choice. And then there is the part that the panels are steel and the chassis is aluminum. Who the hell is dumb enough to weld steel panels onto an aluminum support structure??? Aluminum and steel have very different thermal expansion coefficients, so that is just asking for trouble with parts bending or warping and welds failing at some point. I have to say Elon Musk's idiot index for other people looks very much like it is really just an attempt by him to excuse his own stupidity by trying to put down those around him.
Tesla owners would tell you to "simply" use voice commands. However, it you have passengers and / or kids in the vehicle, all bets are off as to whether the computer will understand you. Consumer Reports say that the best infotainment systems have a combination of physical controls, knobs/buttons, etc.
Have you driven a Tesla? At first, it was sketchy driving through NYC traffic and trying to use the screen, but then I discovered it has voice command. That was it, you never have to look at the screen when you're driving, you just tell the car what you want.
I'm not a fan of Tesla by any means and actually used to work on the battery enclosures for this truck. But I think they did a great job. Everyone hates it now, but years later, I think people will respect it, especially in regards to the polarizing design. They took a huge risk and didn't play it safe
Totally agree. Once a long while do we see big companies taking big risk, breakthrough in products (eg. iPhone and cybertruck). It's big steps like these that eventually changes the market and enhance lives. People can complain all they want, but there is no denying cybertruck is packed with technology, other car makers never even dreamed about.
I actually disagree. I think it draws attention now, it is futuristic looking, but still has the image of a concept vehicle. Once the hype wears off, there are thousands more on the road and people don't snap their necks off gawking at it, other car makers become a bit more imaginative and innovative in their design, the looks will be more of a detriment than anything else. It's good looking from the front, but from some other angles it's really..... ugly, perhaps it will eventually end up more refined in future.
@@IronCan88 Technologies "other car makers never even dreamed about" because they're stupid (unnecessarily expensive with no purpose, unnecessarily difficult to maintain, etc.) and give it a zero percent chance of ever being allowed on the streets of countries with non-trivial safety regulations for cars. Most of what's different about the Cybertruck isn't something other manufacturers couldn't do; it's something they wouldn't do because it makes no sense other than wanting to be different.
Did you mention that the cyber truck could only tow 70 miles before it almost ran empty. Which is far worse than the Ford F150 lightning? So basically you have to make sure there’s a charging station every 60 miles and be willing to sit there for an hour and a half for each charge. What a way to spend the weekend.
Suspension / steering seem to have a lot of potential going by all the reviews, in regards the rest it’s early days. I assume quality control will improve with time. Usually when a whole new car comes out it takes a few annual or bi-annual revisions before everythings fine.
Yeah, people who still buy ICE vehicles and inhale their fumes, like two wheeled budha here. And 32 idiot who up-thumped your brainfart, go to take good long sniff of diesel tale pipe.
@@Mrkevino77 you proving the age old adage ‘better to remain silent and have people think you’re stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt’! 😀
18:25 - And this is why I have no respect for Car and Driver. It's an advertising wing for car companies. They don't do real car reviews. This dude is gushing tesla talking points. How great is it to search functions while driving 70 mph? I guess the truck drives itself when you're not paying attention?
Exoskeleton was a promise Musk made in the original reveal years ago along with $500 mile range and $39,500 base price. All were vaporware possibly design to boost presales and stock prices.
The panels being different indicates that is intentional how exactly? Are they better metals for that panel? What excludes them coming from different factories with loose composition tolerances?
All I can think is “wait, what happens to pedestrians & cyclists if this thing is too big for a two lane roads with massive blind spots” also, isn’t having composition of the metals on different door panels literal over engineered? Also, what happens to another car if there’s an accident? Edit: wait….why isn’t there a speedometer/mileage over the handlebar like a normal car? Why do I need to look at a screen for this information & what happens if it breaks?? If the electricity shorts out, how do I get the door open?
21:56 _"Tesla didn't design this to win the hearts and minds of everybody"_ Correction... _"Tesla didn't design this to win the hearts and minds of _*_ANYBODY"_*
A ten-year-old boy with a straight-edge and a giant novelty pencil from Disney World was given an assignment in school: Draw the COOLEST TRUCK EVER! This is the result.
5:24 or they don't have great quality control and the fluctuations are just contaminates. I'd want to compare with another truck to eliminate this possibility.
After watching - I will admit that there is a lot of brass on Tesla for making this truck. But brass without calculation and planning is just gambling. A calculated risk is a good business strategy, gambling is a bad idea even if it does work out.
You compare to Rivian? Gen 1 or Gen 2? You state 20” tires. Which is drastically less mileage than 22” tires. Gen 2, 22” wheels R1S claims 410. Is that what you are comparing range too?
It looks like the kind of cobbled together goofy future vehicles from bad mad Max takeoffs when I was a kid. The kind you rented from the video store that was inside of a grocery store.
22:31 The 48 volt architecture, Steer-by-wire, rear wheel steering were not created to solve any problems with the design of the car. They had hoped to do 48v when the Y was released but punted it during COVID. Car companies have been looking at doing the same for years but haven't. Steer by wire is pretty hard and requires redundancy up the wazoo. These are just choices that make a truck even more fun to drive. And also true innovation is something that you didn't know you needed and can't live without. Many people say that about the speed proportional steering. None of these things Tesla invented, but they are putting it in a vehicle that will sell millions of units.
You can't do steer-by-wire without 48v. Cybertruck was a somewhat low-volume testbed for the robotaxi/compact car, which will have steer-by-wire for sure and be produced in MASSIVE numbers.
@@danielmonge2318 higher voltage means lighter wiring, easier installation with Ethernet token rings which pushes in lower costs to manufacture. Their engineering design philosophy to lower weight, reduce build complexity is what puts new technology , not because the CT wedge shape or its stainless steel skin
Steer by wire in a car makes no sense. A steering box/rack is not an expensive or hard to find part. The proportional steering also isn't enough of a benefit for the risk of steer by wire. Why not just have tight ratio steering at both low and high speeds. That's how my car is set up and at first it takes a little getting used to the more sensitive steering at high speeds, but once you do, it's awesome. Why make it less sensitive at speed? My car is manual steering with a tight steering ratio. It's easy to steer, but it's only an 1800 lb car. With power steering, it would be doable in a heavier car. The difference between my car and this being that there's no electronics that can fail and make my steering inoperable.
Assuming that the body panels are each carefully concocted steel to meet a specific purpose is less likely than Tesla is just haphazard about the makeup of the steel they use. Are the door gaps carefully calibrated to be bigger or smaller depending on where they are or is Tesla just sloppy when they put the cars together?
I couldn't help but notice you didn't include the weight of this hideous gargantuan blubbermill in your specs at the beginning. They don't like you talking about that.
This is a HUGE issue! (no pun intended). Modern parking garages were made for 2 ton cars, one cybertruck weighs 6,834 lbs. that’s roughly 3.5 times the weight. I highly doubt parking garages built before 2010 ever thought people would be driving cars that weight more in a time when cars were being made out of plastic more and more to save on weight/emissions. Keep in mind that the average and popular model S weighs 5,000lbs, so that would instantly double the weight stress on garages. The cybertruck would just collapse it
@@Mr_Bones. my 2 door 2wd Tundra is 5200 lbs, lighter than any of the 4 door F150 or Sierra you see on the roads today. CT is not really heavier than ICE pickups nowadays.
Provide details on single, double, triple battery internet radio and stereo free or charges combined with speaker numbers. Why is there no holograph in front window similar to 2018 LS 500 six years ago?
Good review, but how does it compare to other trucks, both gas and electric, like carrying loads or towing? Its not going to appeal to commercial pick-up users, so its market is limited to well-heeled private users who can absorb catastrophic depreciation. The one example I've seen in the wild just didn't look quite finished.
“It’s a pickup truck; it’s not made for two-lane roads.” I dunno, two-lane roads are just about everyone in the American west. A visibility problem on two-lane roads is a big problem if you are doing normal truck things.
Yeh, it's a city driving truck. Not a workpersons' truck.
@@tianikane3312 They why is it so big? You'd think a "city truck" should be smaller. Regardless every car should reasonably be able to drive on a normal road.
@@browneyeofsauron1244 Yeah unfortunately most trucks in America are like that at the moment, and most people buying them don't even use them for towing or anything truck related 😂
what he meant was it's not made for doing high speed aggressive driving on twisty 2 lanes- not driving normally on 2 lanes.
A vehicle that's not for two-lane roads. Yup, Tesla is officially a cult.
Another exciting innovation is the detachable gas pedal.
Yeah….the quality is not there
"if you're sensitive to visibility…" has got to be one of the strangest ways of saying "You can't see out of this vehicle", I have ever heard.
15:15 "Almost completely blocks the oncoming traffic in most corners." Well don't expect to take this truck camping, then. Also, he's speeding and laughing on a downhill run in a vehicle he can't see out of. Real world drivers are gonna kill people. Starting with themselves.
"The Cybertruck reminded me of the old Countach."
Because some people can adapt to using cameras.
@RawandCookedVegan I guess you haven't ever actually used them, especially outside of an urban environment. They get dirty or wet as you drive, and they don't work so well.
@@barrydworak I haven't n I wouldn't pay 100 k for this. But I like the closing comment. Tesla attempted something different in many ways at the design, structural and electrical level. This is praiseworthy and moving the automotive engineering ball forward. Legacy auto has been too complacent.
Why didn't they tow anything or take it on a dirt road? Its a truck, but they are reviewing it mostly as a city car. 'Its a truck... Not for two lane' what?!
It's main problem, or some will say feature. For most of the douches who will own one it will be their first truck so they have no idea what good is in that sense. I heard that bit about 2 lane and I thought exactly the same thing.
A few years ago the beemer douches migrated to Tesla, now they'll be in these. If you own a real 4WD get ready to pull a lot of these out of the mud.
And it's over a $100,000 truck at that. He's talking about it as if it's an electric Ranger or something
It actually really really sucks as a truck. Most people who own one will confirm it’s just too damn heavy and too low to be a good truck. It’s awful for off roading and the bed while a decent size is a nightmare to reach in and out of. It all form and no function. Most owners will tell you that it’s just a much bigger “insert Tesla model here”
way too heavy for many off road uses
Apparently the wheel covers have been recalled because the covers were cutting into the sidewall of the tire. And speaking of tires, will an owner have to buy the funky tires from Tesla? What will the cost be for a set of new shoes for the truck?
They'll be disposed of in 10 years.
Pirelli or Goodyear tires on the stock wheels. And you can put different wheels and tires on it and tinker with the suspension like any other truck.
Running through tires is one of the biggest complaint of Tesla owners.
In my *"**#Wheels** playlist"* there are four channels complaining about them having to change tires on the Teslas frequently.
And on the *"Whamm Bamm Tesla Cam channel"* The Teslas are forever hydroplaning and getting in accidents.
While the cars around them are still driving perfectly on a rainy road.
@@icosthop9998 the main tyre makers now make EV tyres and are marked as such and last as long as normal tyres. The bigger issue is that because the acceleration is so fast people can´t resist trying it out and that will reduce your tyre life. This truck does 0-60 in 2.9 seconds. That´s the same as a Lamborghini Adventador
That's Tesla's idea of cutting edge technology
@CarAndDriver 15:00 "if you are sensitive to outwards visibility" the A pillar cause very poor diagonal visibility, which makes it dangerous in city traffic. CarAndDriver why are you sugar coating this?
Why don't you run it through a carwash
Reviewer‘s and influencers have learned that if they talk badly about the product. They don’t get the vehicles to pretend that they’re being honest reviewing
Hope they don't have birds where they live
Drive it offroad on a easy trail, or on a beach, or God forbid. A worksite with ruts, mud, sand, etc.
@@4toes1nose Which would explain why you hardly see Tesla reviews where the quality control, or build quality is crap.
Yeah, this is just another shill video.
"I can't see out the front but we have lots of cameras, so that's OK." I hope he was joking.
I mean there's a screen right there you can play games on, why would anyone be looking out the windows in the first place?
He wasn't 💯👍🏾
cameras in normal modern cars are VERY useful for backing up. Over the years I had 3 accidents like that before cameras-too confident or lasy to get out and LOOK. Cameras for front vision, not so much.
The sound system must be incredible but I would never use it except in stop-and-go. I like hearing things.
The novelty of the Cybertruck is fading quickly. After that is totally gone, what is left?
An awesome truck!
I drove one today and was blown away with how incredible it is.
I love that the biggest, heaviest vehicles are the ones that don't have to report their stats.
I guess it's assumed anyone buying one of those isn't prioritizing efficiency anyway lol
Thank Republicans for rejecting regulations because they might hurt big business.
@@billg.7909 It was the Democrats that wrote the CAFE standards that exempted pickups from MPG standards.
@@Species-lj8wh oh, come on… the industry wrote those standards and had them implemented by the government of the day.
Democrats support EV and currently hold congress, the house, and the president office.
Jesus F-ing Christ, even when democrats hold all the power against the weak and pathetic GOP, they still blame republicans.
Joe Biden came out last week and actually said the economy is bad because of Trump, despite being in office for 4 years and sending about $200 billion to Ukraine, Israel, AND Palestine. I’m not for either party, but come on!
Yes fly by wire in a plane seems and is safe in a plane. The aviation industry has standards and the planes are inspected and maintained quite vigorously. In some person's vehicle I feel after time these systems will be prone to issues from improper maintenance. Have you seen the miled out vehicles on the roads today? When the cost to maintain these systems is seen some people will be lax in upkeep of vehicles. No mechanical backup is not a good idea.
i'm sure we can all trust Testa not to fail with it /s
The system has two computers and twin steering motors. It is backed up.
these comments are very ignorant. there are lots of advantages to drive by wire, (manufacturing, cost, reliability, driver experience, etc.) why would you think its a bad thing? Because its popular to hate on Tesla now?
haha.... these sorry azz tesla haters are truly pathetic ...
Fly by wire aircraft are generally also quad redundant and your pilot won't take off if one of the four systems is down. I'd bet that Tesla's steer by wire has no redundancy.
@15:16 He said on visibility "it's a pick up truck not made for two lane roads"......
It's like it fell out of an Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down.
You know what a truck needs? A gable roof. Pure genius.
@@Dwigt_Rortugal and a bed smaller than a kei truck
It's like you fell out of an Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down.
@@universeisundernoobligatio3283 Wow, what incredible wit! The "I'm rubber you're glue" defence... Muskrats are so superior!
That's what the ducks said about the swan 🦢📐
Wish you had tested the wiper so that you might see where the fluid drains down behind the frunk and eventually out of the vehicle. Or checked for rust as many reviewers have found.
Stainless does not rust regardless of what
people may say.
@@royhoward4798 It is quite possible to get surface rust on stainless steel - this is not marine quality material.
@@royhoward4798there are different stainless steel grades and I’m sure that this truck will be rusting from within. Witnessed this first hand on so called stainless steel rusting from within…..GARBAGE!!
Saw my first one today in Apex, NC. I am ambivalent. The styling is not my bottle of beer. The young man inside looked cartoonishly tiny framed by the front side glass. All the panels looked dirty. I am sure that he is happy with his pavement princess. Bless his heart.
Saw one in Wilmington, NC. BF and I were underwhelmed. It looked a bit rough and dirty and...just didn't live up to the hype.
Perfect. I've always wanted a vehicle that has neither form nor function.
I’ll keep my Pacifica thank you😂
“If you’re sensitive to visibility…”
Oh, you mean people who don’t enjoy driving a 3 ton vehicle with massive blind spots?
It has CAMERAS dude, so really has fewer blindspots than the average pickup, just have to get used to using them ;?)
@@russell2449 a camera is just a fancy mirror
Lol, the dual steer motor quip about airplane reminds me of an old saw about twin engine aircraft: Don't worry, if one engine fails, the second has more than enough power to get you to your crash site.
Good one.
Even with one engine, it'll still beat all the emergency services to the crash site. -paraphrased Ron White
😂😂😂😂
I'll rent one next time I visit Gotham City.
_Same BAT Time, same BAT Channel_
I will transfer Gotham Citiy to my home. When i am allowed to. Sadly the UN/ECE geezers are afraid of their own shadow.
Say hello to Batman, Alfred and Robin for me. Oh yeah and Bruce Wayne
None of these are in Pittsburgh. As soon as they start pouring salt on the roads here these things will shrivel up and die.
@@nitehawk86 "shrivel up and die" Yes. Clearly a nutcase. Literally.
Did you drive it through a car wash, or tow with it ,
Who would ever do such a thing with a truck? You're just talking crazy.
@@TheRealColt45 and you never driven in the winter months up North.
Are you some Tesla owner, employee , or influencer ?
That is what trucks are meant for. To get dirty , to be washed, and to tow things.
Duh.
@@serafinacosta7118 lol yes. 😅😅. Those are the most basic things you would do with the truck thus my sarcastic response. We already know of one cybertruck being bricked simply by going through a regular car wash and anyone who has tried to tow anything with the cybertruck has ended up with less than 100 mi of range. It's a joke.
And actually I live in the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada where we typically get about 600 inches of snow per year so I know what I'm talking about with winter driving. 😉
Bring it to Alaska in December and we will talk. What a joke of a "truck!"
Hes obviously being sarcastic.
Get off the internet, old man
Jason Camissa of Hagertty, he was as impressed as Carlos I think.
I confuse those two for some reason
@@lemongavine Same here, sometimes I think they are twins.LOL
More than Carlos. Jason is more objective too.
C'mon, Hagerty was a paid campaign. It was an ad for the CT and not much else. Friends keep friends honest by telling them the truth. Hagerty did no such thing.
@@TheDirtCreatureexactly, they said so much bullsht nonsense in that video.
The loose bolt is an easter egg, congratulations on finding it.
😂😂😂😂😂
What's the prize?
"Now please screw it back into the hole in the battery bracket, failure of the battery bracket keeping the battery from falling out on the road is not covered by your warranty"
Will Auto Zone have that wiper blade? Will Gort use it to pick up Klaatu?
Good one!
I think you have to go to the harbor and get one at the Ocean Liner parts store.
$165, a real bargain.
Oh, yeah, that's some stellar engineering there.
Klaatu Barakah Knickto 😂
I generally consider myself "sensitive to outward visibility" when I'm piloting 4 tons of metal down the road I share with other human beings. Interested in what's out there.
Screen should be against the law…totally distracting.YOUR SUPPOSED TO KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD……
Having everything on the screen is absurdly annoying to me.
California car guys always review these things in perfect conditions/"ideal" offroad conditions. Salt/mud gonna make that rearview camera useless real quick.
Which is true for EVery vehicle with a camera. You’d know that if you’d bought a car in the last decade…😂
The front bumper camera has a spray nozzle to keep it clean.
When CT starts to be involved in traffic accidents, you will start to see what a death trap it really is both for passengers and not least for oncoming traffic, pedestrians and cyclists, fortunate that the United States is so poorly designed that not many people walk and cycle, in now a reason why we in Europe are so lucky that we have reasonable traffic rules that make CT illegal over here in the western free world😁
@@michael-gk3ib You must have some amazing crystal ball.
@@FrunkensteinVonZipperneck That doesn't automatically give it a pass! It just means that's a sucky feature of ALL EV's!
Why am I watching a Tesla video brochure?
I hear you. C&D sold out a long time ago.
@@midcenturymodern9330 sold out to who? who paid them for this?
It’s not about “getting money”, it’s that if a critic gives a bad review they will not be given early access to review a future car.
Same thing happens with video games. It’s why so many modern games score high but have very low player retention rates.
Agreed, I thought Car and Driver would give the real scoop on this thing. Sounded like an infomercial to me.
L😂L
To tell the truth, I was surprised about this fairly good review.
The Delorean & Pontiac Aztec had a baby and named it Cybertruck
Exterior design by Stevie Wonder.
Hey, don't knock the Aztec, I just bought one for $450. At that price, I figure it has to be a fine machine. (The ad said it just needed a few minor repairs and TLC 🤣)
@@tinkerstrade3553 Like a new windshield? Just make sure the FBI isn't after you.
@@brandall101 Oh it was stolen. Busted window and ripped ignition. Now why anybody would want to, is murky: it couldn't be as a getaway car, you'd stick out like driving an Edsel.
I only bought it because of the all wheel drive. I'm building out a truck camper, and want tow the 4X4 and use it as a runabout when camped. A sort of ugly jeep.
@@tinkerstrade3553 I was referencing Breaking Bad... where it was used as a getaway car quite a few times :)
Whatta ya mean it's not made for roads? @15:15
It's not made for roads? Than wtf is it doing there?!?!
"if you're a fan of outward visibility....." every pedestrian gives a blank stare
He was like, "It's a truck it's not meant to be on a two lane highway." and I was like.....what
Its not about what other people actually think, its about what you think they think. People who drive noisy motor cycles think everyone else admires them. People who experience a noisy motorcycle going past think the owner is an annoying menace to society.
Yeah i was Carlos would have given comparison to other trucks visibility, rather than just a vague statement of A pillars blocking during corners. Like how much does that happen with a typical crew cab truck.
Lying...crushed... on the ground... flattened by this piece of $%&*@
@@andrewjazdzyk1215 That wasn't the first time he said something like that either. The translation: "The truck isn't designed to be a truck."
I saw one of these pulling up behind me at a stop today, and all I thought was "I hope they fixed the accelerator problem..."
Thanks for the laughs! The jump kick and lock to lock test were hilarious!
Jealous? What laughs? Kick a** truck for sure 👌🏼
“Tesla says” “Tesla says”, this was a 23.24 minutes long commercial, no real tests.
Apparently they are recalling just under 4000 for the accelerator pedal issue; how may do they need to sell to break even on the amortized development costs? In virtually every other country with an advanced economy you would get a response that might indicate that you had lost your mind if you started talking about it being bullet proof. Likewise, if you say that it is a truck and therefore not suited to operating on a two lane road.
Those points are purely academic, I admit, as in Europe it would considered to be a design optimised to injure pedestrians - so it isn't going to be on European roads, ever. And even it was, you would need a special licence to drive it.
Is a BAC Mono legal to drive in Europe?
@@davepaturno4290 Legal in the UK, no nasty, stiff, sharp edges and isn't the size and weight of a large truck.
@@glynnwright1699 I'd buy one in a second for use here in the US. It is the exact opposite of the 7000 lb cybertruck. Doug Demuro reviewed a BAC Mono here in CA. His expressions while accelerating are priceless.
Sorry, But just like a few dead pixels on a PC monitor draw your eye, both of those doors look like some kid has been playing with the stainless fridge and left dirty smudges on the edges.
I look forward to people getting creative with stencils and lemon juice.
😁😅😂🤣🤣
The driving dong, The silver schlong, The drawn on dink, The painted on phallus.
Some people who buy these get them wrapped....
@@rvninnorthcarolina3377 my wrap would be rust and bullet holes.
😂😂😂
It’s funny - people who have one of these should probably realize the people staring at them are thinking- that dude was a moron for buying that. Haha
Note to C&D: You're gonna need a bigger tube of lipstick.
And a tube of something else
what is "sensitive to visibility"? I mean, what does that mean for driving a car? Also, what was this review, no mention of the recalls, no mention of the problems, just... giggles over the acceleration? C&D I used to have a subscription.
Minecraft called and doesn't want its truck back.
L😂L
lmao, best review of this thing
This guys really trying to claim that since there’s copper in front bumper and not the door panels that it’s done in purpose and not just a hodgepodge of random metal 😂
As a longtime Sierra owner who actually uses his truck as a truck, I can assure you that this is not a pickup or a replacement for one.
People are already getting used to seeing them around town and there's only 3 of them here. The novelty is wearing off and no one gives a shit anymore. If you're buying one of these to get attention, your window is rapidly closing.
Why does your test truck have the recalled wheel covers? They're supposed to be redesigning them to get rid of the 7-pointed corners because they dig into the sidewalls. All of the ones I've seen on the road have no wheel covers.
Good question. I was wondering the same thing.
Cool. Review a truck unlike any truck and do car things. Did you haul things that truck people do? Pull a trailer? What's the range pulling a travel trailer? Launch a boat?
See lots of used ones listed-already. Over 20 ads in the Midwest.
Yeah they are trying to resell, at a profit, as usual.
I'm rebuilding a 49 Chevy 3/4 ton. I'll be out about $16k. It will be good for another 40 years. I can buy a lot of gas for the difference in price.
And you won't look like a giant douche
I wonder how much petrol/gas will be per gallon in 2044, let alone 2064.
@@justinbennitt835 Considering the US produces more oil than Saudi Arabia... pretty cheap.
@@patland1762 That is mostly due to fracking. Word is that fracking is a short term solution.
I imagine your putting a modern brake system on the 49. Cars stop a lot faster than they used to.
A few years ago, I did volunteer work in the Crawford Museum’s shop. There was a Delorean DMC-12 in the collection. A light touch with Scotch Brite pad did a good job of cleaning up the stainless steel skin as needed. The DMC-12 panels were SS303, not that different from the Cybertruck “30X.” The difference was that the DMC-12 steel panels were a skin and not so structural as in the Cybertruck.
The high sides on the Cybertruck seem to be a necessity owing to the unit body design more than aerodynamic benefit. The Ridgeline, Santa Cruze and Brat are all like that. The Maverick has not so high bed sides, but it is quite a bit smaller.
I saw one of these in person here in May 2024. I’m not a designer, but I noticed that this vehicle looks more like something made in a shop class by high school kids than a vehicle that is rolled off a modern assembly line after being built by professionals.. it actually looks like a crude kit car, all flat panels. I could see that that would eliminate stamping out curved fender shapes and curved door shapes and curved hood and trunk shapes. Having all flat surfaces. in person, it really struck me as looking like a body that a little kid and his dad made to fit on a go cart for the soap box derby..
I realize beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the movie star that this vehicle most closely reminds me of, is Frankenstein, with his flat head and forehead, Herman Munster..
i’m gonna say this now, but I have a feeling that Tesla is in big trouble, I just have a feeling that they may go bankrupt..
It would be similar to the white starship building line that built the titanic, they built the ship, and on it’s supposed maiden voyage, it sunk..
I just have a feeling this was a knee-jerk sad flash in the pan that we will be laughing about 10 years from now, and they will be making television shows, saying, remember the Tesla? And the yugo and the Edsel., and the Corvair, and the VW beetle..
I still think the electric car is not a bad idea once they solve the battery problem of safety, cost, range, and replacement, and dangers in the event of a crash… I just think it was too much of a rush job. They need to come up with a plan for recycling old batteries safely, they need to come up with a plan for charging stations, they need to come up with a battery that is not going to burst into flames, they need to come up with training for fire departments And emergency responders that can handle emergencies with people, trapped inside of crashed EVs.. Keep in mind that most fire departments depend on volunteers. These volunteer fire departments are not going to have sophisticated equipment specifically for handling runaway EV battery fires. China has already had over 21,000 lithium ion battery car fires in 2023 alone..
there needs to be a policy on where to park. Evies, you can’t really park them in parking garages.. you probably can’t park them near a petroleum tank farm or near a natural gas facility, I don’t think a gasoline or diesel fuel tank truck driver should be driving an EV to work.. I don’t think someone that works Near grain elevators should be driving an EV.. even someone that works for ammonium nitrate fertilizer companies should not be driving an EV.. neither should anyone that works for or near a company that handles ammonia or chlorine.. no electric truck should ever haul chlorine, if you have a CDL license, you know that you cannot drive a commercial vehicle through a tunnel with any amount of chlorine on your truck, not even 1 ounce of chlorine..
there needs to be technical training for people that are going to work on Evies. Right now that is nonexistent to a great extent…
then there’s the tax base. People that drive, gasoline engine and diesel, powered vehicles, pay road tax with every gallon of fuel they buy.. EV owners pay zero towards highway and road maintenance through fuel taxes. Here in Pennsylvania I think the tax per gallon is something like $.58 per gallon…
I would like to see the governments take over the casinos, and use our profits from the casinos to fund highway infrastructure instead of a few unknown investors, taking about $2 billion a month profit per casino on average, at least that is how much they report..
this whole mad dash towards electrifying all the cars in the country was too much too soon. I believe we will get to that point, maybe in about 40 or 60 years, but right now, it’s just not practical…
if you’re going to argue for the switch to battery powered cars and trucks because they don’t produce pollution, think again, the results are out, it takes 40 metric tons of carbon producing effort to produce just one single EV battery for a car. And all of those electric cars that are not using gasoline or diesel, all they are doing is exporting their pollution to the power station that is burning fossil fuel to make the electricity to charge the EVs..
statisticians can come up with all kinds of facts and figures, but just remember who’s writing the reports. What is their agenda.
figures, lie, and liars figure ..
A little overkill to say this truck is just an useless show piece for hipsters, don’t you think?
@@serafinacosta7118 i’m glad I didn’t say it. Those are your words. I would say it’s a car designed by Practical engineers, not Creative designers.. although it is a practical design with all of those flat surfaces, including the windshield and rear window.. very practical, like working with flat aluminum house siding or sheets of plywood..that’s a great cost saving design, not many shaping and stamping stops along the assembly line. Not even painting. That is a huge savings in itself. practical ,if not very aesthetically appealing..
@@Jodyrides it is not practical either. Sharp corners were a rage in the 80’s. Around the 90’s every car maker moved away from sharp to round.
Wind tunnel results and fuel saving mandates in passenger cars pretty much sealed the fate on sharp corners. Which designers knew intuitively during the 40’s.
And then there is overhead design. Which in the Tesla truck needs to be overcompensated by increasing roof clearance height. They slope the horizontal lines severely to get favorable wind tunnel results.
You can’t bend stainless steel sheets as well as you do with carbon steel. Hence your freedom to improve upon product design is severely limited.
Corrosion is no longer an issue with car bodies. So having stainless steel is nothing short of a wet dream from a car maker who thinks he can walk on water. Until, there is , his competitors catch up with him.
The design is horrible. Reminds me of brutalist architecture from the 60’s and beyond. Horrible. And unpractical.
It looks like a refrigerator and a car from any 1980's cheesy scifi movie had a baby!
This review had issues. They have a heavy vehicle and they tell you use the light vehicle regime and that is cool. You have to protect it from rain. You did not mention driving it at night. And then you compare a fly by wire plane that is constantly checked and repaired by trained professionals to a daily use likely bi-yearly serviced car driven by an normal person. I am personally not impressed.
This was made for the "Look At Me!" crowd.
Makes it easy for me to identify people I have no interest in knowing.
Silliest statement ever, smh - just because YOU think that's the reason people buy a CT doesn't make it true, there's a MUCH larger segment that want THE BEST PICKUP ON THE ROAD, the SAFEST pickup on the market, GREAT performance and handling and much much more. That you're STUCK on the form over function says a lot about why YOU would buy a pickup and not everyone else's motivation!
@@russell2449 The CT is the epitome of form over function. Thanks for playing.
Well, to be fair, so are 95% of consumer pickups since 2004. Pickups stopped being about functional use ability long ago and became emotional support vehicles for tender people.
@@russell2449Your COMMENT needs MORE words in CAPS for EMPHASIS so we can UNDERSTAND you BETTER
An armrest that folds down?….be still my heart…where do write my check?😅
Obviously you would write your check on the armrest that folds down.
The CyberTruck wasn't designed by truck users, it was created to satisfy the ego of Elon Musk. No way the everyday journeyperson truck owner is finding this vehicle a practical alternative to GM, Ram, Chevy or Ford trucks. But if you are creating 'content' then it's definitely the truck to buy.
Wrong. I'm a contractor with over 40 years of experience.
Cybertruck this year will outsell Ford and GM electric pick up trucks this year combined. The dimensions were roughly based on a Ford 150. It´s difficult to bend stainless steel so that partially set the styling look and yes Elon did not want a normal pick up style. Had he done a Rivian with 12 V electrics and no steer by wire he would have had the cyber truck built 2 years ago.
It does get a lot of attention wherever you go.
It's certainly true that it was Elmo's [fever] dream, including making it from stainless steel. His engineers and designers almost certainly pushed back on things like using stainless steel and the fugly design, but no one is going to tell Elmo anything once he's made up his mind.
@@topherdean1024 Then I will be sure to never hire you for any project, ever! Can't use someone who's judgment is so badly compromised that they are totally divorced from reality, you could never be trusted.
very few truck buyers are "journeypersons" who actually use their truck as a truck. CT is perfect for the suburban tech worker who wants to drive a sportscar disguised as a heavy vehicle.
Indicating inconsistency not individual panel placement consistency . Lots of lingual gymnastics going on here
9:02 it isn't accurate to say that the Cybertruck fell "short of its estimate" on your 75mph range test. The estimate you're speaking of is an average of multiple driving cycles which include lower speed city driving. So they never gave you, or anyone, an estimate for 75mph driving alone.
That was really well done. My opinion didn't change. This vehicle is about one thing. Look at me.
@15:15 Pickups are not meant for two lane roads??? You were doing good until then.
@16:32 It's not just hobbled together??? What is it, a horse? The phrase is; " ... cobbled together" Cobbled not hobbled. Sigh. Millennials will be the death of us.
No ….it is not Millenials .
It is Reaganomics … the MFs can’t read or write.
Notice the “ scribe “ is a gray bearded dude.
The Reaganomics part, I picked up on the “ City of Industry “ flick. When Skip goes to buy a gun from some homeboys . Go watch it. It is quotable.
Starring Tim Hutton and Harvey Keitel.
At about 2:00, why would I care how fast a truck can accelerate? Why? What's the point? I don't get it.
That is their only bragging point. As a truck owner myself, that is not at the top of my list when buying a truck.
Seen this Cyber Truck makes me appreciate even more the old reliable Toyota Land Cruiser Series 40 Pickup Truck ( the Brazilian version is known as the Bandeirante ) .
That thing is unbreakable. Some of them equipped with a Mercedes Benz Diesel engine.
Now those are trucks.
This thing is a hipster trip to self indulgence. A fool and his money have parted ways. .
You can’t haul anything worth a lick in this thing, nor you can drive through rough patches.
And btw, the Toyota body construction handles the same amount of debris without a scratch. And it won’t rust.
And “ IT LOOKS LIKE A REAL TRUCK “.
How about the terrible visibility in the truck, how about the open cockpit design with the rear window removed, not so great 🤔
How about the difficulties with water, getting stuck in sand, the feeling of weight when on wet roads or how the 9,000 lbs is difficult to stop in the event of loss of control or how it will blow through guard rails 🤔🤨
Have you driven a regular truck recently? Pickups have horrible visibility, that's why they are among the slowest vehicles on the road. They have gotten so big in the past decade it has only made this fact worse. Unless you have something really large to tow or work in a trade where the bed is a necessity driving a pickup for a daily is ridiculously expensive. Don't even get me started how bad they are off road. If you don't believe me try driving one down a trail lined with trees! I wouldn't buy a cybertruck for the same reasons I wouldn't buy any other pickup.
I don't understand why it's so important that it's Bullit proof. We've NEVER used that as a criteria before.
The whole thing is answers to questions no one asked.
The bullet proof part is just to show how tough the exterior is. It's so tough that it can stop bullets, not that you should go get shot in it. why is that so hard to understand?
@@rustygear447 Username checks out :p
@@rustygear447 Making cybertrucks like this is one of the dumbest ideas ever. It is still going to get dented and warped in collisions, and since those panels are welded onto the chassis as this video says, you're gonna want to just ditch this thing and replace it with an ICE car when you get the repair costs estimate. Minor dents are also not a significant issue. Only OCD people really care about those. My car has a bunch, and I hardly ever even notice those. The bullets used to do the demonstration of those panels being "bulletproof" were also not the type that would be most commonly used by criminals, meaning that this whole song and dance about bulletproof panels is really just a b.s. gimmick. Criminals would go with the cheaper bullets, those being full-metal jackets rather than hollow-points (which are like less than half the price of hollow-points), especially given that FMJs penetrate stuff far better. From the tests that I have seen, I strongly doubt that those panels would stop FMJs, seeing how hollow-points came close to punching through and failed to do so clearly on account of flaring far out and flattening as they are supposed to even when they hit very soft stuff such as flesh. Sure, regular panels on old-school ICE cars are nowhere nearly as tough, but it is cheap and easy enough to remove and replace them. That makes them a much better choice. And then there is the part that the panels are steel and the chassis is aluminum. Who the hell is dumb enough to weld steel panels onto an aluminum support structure??? Aluminum and steel have very different thermal expansion coefficients, so that is just asking for trouble with parts bending or warping and welds failing at some point. I have to say Elon Musk's idiot index for other people looks very much like it is really just an attempt by him to excuse his own stupidity by trying to put down those around him.
@@rustygear447It's not hard to understand. These commentators are not serious people.
I think I prefer the throttle house review. C&D missed out the guidance about using the door edges for peeling and chopping vegetables.
When I see somebody driving one, I just point at them and laugh 😂 😹
Why do you have the recalled defective wheel covers on, are you out of touch?
Everything is on the display. So the driver can’t make any adjustments without taking eyes off the road. Should be outlawed in all motor vehicles.
What are you talking about? No need to look at the screen for, uh, steering and accelerator and looking outside, er no wait, scratch that last one...
Don't text and drive, but actually operating everything in your vehicle? A-ok.
The world's regulators have these systems in their sights for that very reason.
Tesla owners would tell you to "simply" use voice commands. However, it you have passengers and / or kids in the vehicle, all bets are off as to whether the computer will understand you.
Consumer Reports say that the best infotainment systems have a combination of physical controls, knobs/buttons, etc.
Have you driven a Tesla? At first, it was sketchy driving through NYC traffic and trying to use the screen, but then I discovered it has voice command. That was it, you never have to look at the screen when you're driving, you just tell the car what you want.
I'm not a fan of Tesla by any means and actually used to work on the battery enclosures for this truck. But I think they did a great job. Everyone hates it now, but years later, I think people will respect it, especially in regards to the polarizing design. They took a huge risk and didn't play it safe
Totally agree. Once a long while do we see big companies taking big risk, breakthrough in products (eg. iPhone and cybertruck). It's big steps like these that eventually changes the market and enhance lives. People can complain all they want, but there is no denying cybertruck is packed with technology, other car makers never even dreamed about.
@@IronCan88 Well said Sir!
I actually disagree. I think it draws attention now, it is futuristic looking, but still has the image of a concept vehicle. Once the hype wears off, there are thousands more on the road and people don't snap their necks off gawking at it, other car makers become a bit more imaginative and innovative in their design, the looks will be more of a detriment than anything else.
It's good looking from the front, but from some other angles it's really..... ugly, perhaps it will eventually end up more refined in future.
@@CandyGirl44 It's futuristic looking? At best it's what a 5 year old kid would draw if they were asked to depict a truck from the future.
@@IronCan88 Technologies "other car makers never even dreamed about" because they're stupid (unnecessarily expensive with no purpose, unnecessarily difficult to maintain, etc.) and give it a zero percent chance of ever being allowed on the streets of countries with non-trivial safety regulations for cars.
Most of what's different about the Cybertruck isn't something other manufacturers couldn't do; it's something they wouldn't do because it makes no sense other than wanting to be different.
Did you mention that the cyber truck could only tow 70 miles before it almost ran empty. Which is far worse than the Ford F150 lightning? So basically you have to make sure there’s a charging station every 60 miles and be willing to sit there for an hour and a half for each charge. What a way to spend the weekend.
What percent of truck drivers actually tow anything? It's an amazingly small number. For those who do, don't buy one.
The specs I have on the Tri-Motor are: * 845 HORSEPOWER * 10,296 LB-FT TORQUE 1:35
How do you wash the inside of the front window?
You just crack it and have it replaced under insurance! By the way insurance rates are going up.
Mop
Suspension / steering seem to have a lot of potential going by all the reviews, in regards the rest it’s early days. I assume quality control will improve with time. Usually when a whole new car comes out it takes a few annual or bi-annual revisions before everythings fine.
Tesla Cybertruck, proving the age old adage of "there is a sucker born every minute"...
Maybe 2or3
Yeah, people who still buy ICE vehicles and inhale their fumes, like two wheeled budha here. And 32 idiot who up-thumped your brainfart, go to take good long sniff of diesel tale pipe.
And you proving the age old adage ‘better to remain silent and have people think you’re stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt’!
@@Mrkevino77 you proving the age old adage ‘better to remain silent and have people think you’re stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt’! 😀
@@Mrkevino77 said to the mirror
"it has lots of redundancies, but we don't have enough time to go over them..." = trust me bro.
That’s it - it looks like a prop from a really low budget 1980s sci-fi series
So when is the real truck going to load in? All I'm seeing is the low poly model they use as a place holder.
hats off that was the best review I have seen so far. NOW I WANT ONE!!!
18:25 - And this is why I have no respect for Car and Driver. It's an advertising wing for car companies. They don't do real car reviews. This dude is gushing tesla talking points. How great is it to search functions while driving 70 mph? I guess the truck drives itself when you're not paying attention?
Exoskeleton was a promise Musk made in the original reveal years ago along with $500 mile range and $39,500 base price. All were vaporware possibly design to boost presales and stock prices.
Munro and associate engineers discovered The battery pack is half full, meaning you could possibly double the current range
I think that we can all agree that if Enron's lips are moving...
The panels being different indicates that is intentional how exactly? Are they better metals for that panel? What excludes them coming from different factories with loose composition tolerances?
A loose bolt. Great. Really inspires confidence.
Irrespective of “truck culture”, this is a fair and well presented review. However, I’m never in this market. Not even the used market.
All I can think is “wait, what happens to pedestrians & cyclists if this thing is too big for a two lane roads with massive blind spots” also, isn’t having composition of the metals on different door panels literal over engineered? Also, what happens to another car if there’s an accident?
Edit: wait….why isn’t there a speedometer/mileage over the handlebar like a normal car? Why do I need to look at a screen for this information & what happens if it breaks?? If the electricity shorts out, how do I get the door open?
It’s alright grandpa!
Take your pills and have a good lie down!
21:56 _"Tesla didn't design this to win the hearts and minds of everybody"_
Correction... _"Tesla didn't design this to win the hearts and minds of _*_ANYBODY"_*
A ten-year-old boy with a straight-edge and a giant novelty pencil from Disney World was given an assignment in school: Draw the COOLEST TRUCK EVER!
This is the result.
He could be assistant lead designer to Hans at Tesla if he had kept it up.
5:24 or they don't have great quality control and the fluctuations are just contaminates.
I'd want to compare with another truck to eliminate this possibility.
After watching - I will admit that there is a lot of brass on Tesla for making this truck.
But brass without calculation and planning is just gambling.
A calculated risk is a good business strategy, gambling is a bad idea even if it does work out.
This is titled "just shoot me" because Musk had a sniper trained on him the whole time so he wouldn't say anything critical about the car.
You compare to Rivian? Gen 1 or Gen 2? You state 20” tires. Which is drastically less mileage than 22” tires.
Gen 2, 22” wheels R1S claims 410. Is that what you are comparing range too?
It looks like a giant rolling doorstop. Pass.
I’ll take yours then.
@@startupdownhome You have my deepest condolences, to be seen driving that ugly monstrosity 🤮
It looks like the kind of cobbled together goofy future vehicles from bad mad Max takeoffs when I was a kid. The kind you rented from the video store that was inside of a grocery store.
haters with no life
@@epa316 To each their own! If you're not going to buy one, quit being offended by it.
Why why why does it have the smallest side mirrors ever?
22:31 The 48 volt architecture, Steer-by-wire, rear wheel steering were not created to solve any problems with the design of the car. They had hoped to do 48v when the Y was released but punted it during COVID. Car companies have been looking at doing the same for years but haven't. Steer by wire is pretty hard and requires redundancy up the wazoo. These are just choices that make a truck even more fun to drive.
And also true innovation is something that you didn't know you needed and can't live without. Many people say that about the speed proportional steering. None of these things Tesla invented, but they are putting it in a vehicle that will sell millions of units.
You can't do steer-by-wire without 48v. Cybertruck was a somewhat low-volume testbed for the robotaxi/compact car, which will have steer-by-wire for sure and be produced in MASSIVE numbers.
@@danielmonge2318 higher voltage means lighter wiring, easier installation with Ethernet token rings which pushes in lower costs to manufacture. Their engineering design philosophy to lower weight, reduce build complexity is what puts new technology , not because the CT wedge shape or its stainless steel skin
What’s the relationship between 48V technology and COVID?
@@freddymax5256 supply chain issues
Steer by wire in a car makes no sense. A steering box/rack is not an expensive or hard to find part. The proportional steering also isn't enough of a benefit for the risk of steer by wire. Why not just have tight ratio steering at both low and high speeds. That's how my car is set up and at first it takes a little getting used to the more sensitive steering at high speeds, but once you do, it's awesome. Why make it less sensitive at speed? My car is manual steering with a tight steering ratio. It's easy to steer, but it's only an 1800 lb car. With power steering, it would be doable in a heavier car. The difference between my car and this being that there's no electronics that can fail and make my steering inoperable.
Assuming that the body panels are each carefully concocted steel to meet a specific purpose is less likely than Tesla is just haphazard about the makeup of the steel they use. Are the door gaps carefully calibrated to be bigger or smaller depending on where they are or is Tesla just sloppy when they put the cars together?
I couldn't help but notice you didn't include the weight of this hideous gargantuan blubbermill in your specs at the beginning. They don't like you talking about that.
This is a HUGE issue! (no pun intended). Modern parking garages were made for 2 ton cars, one cybertruck weighs 6,834 lbs. that’s roughly 3.5 times the weight. I highly doubt parking garages built before 2010 ever thought people would be driving cars that weight more in a time when cars were being made out of plastic more and more to save on weight/emissions.
Keep in mind that the average and popular model S weighs 5,000lbs, so that would instantly double the weight stress on garages. The cybertruck would just collapse it
@@Mr_Bones. my 2 door 2wd Tundra is 5200 lbs, lighter than any of the 4 door F150 or Sierra you see on the roads today. CT is not really heavier than ICE pickups nowadays.
How many fingers did you loose?
MT lost a legend when Carlos left, glad to see him again here!
You should not have to use the word "considering" that many times when discussing a vehicle that expensive.
I loved that show. Very funny.
4:19. Usually there's a beam that runs diagonally? That's news to me. Anyone know of a vehicle whose side impact door beams run diagonally?
Electronics always break and fail at some point so buying a vehicle the company and government can just tap into isn't a smart investment
Provide details on single, double, triple battery internet radio and stereo free or charges combined with speaker numbers. Why is there no holograph in front window similar to 2018 LS 500 six years ago?
Hopefully the stainless steel keeps the fire contained when the batteries go south.
Like a pressure cooking pan. Bodies Charred to perfection.
Good review, but how does it compare to other trucks, both gas and electric, like carrying loads or towing? Its not going to appeal to commercial pick-up users, so its market is limited to well-heeled private users who can absorb catastrophic depreciation. The one example I've seen in the wild just didn't look quite finished.