Looks like something they would have made for a challenge on old Top Gear
Hammond you bloody pudding roll, you’re supposed to use that glue for the INTERIOR of the automotive don’t ya know mate
Finally, after all these years I’ve wasted staring at stainless steel refrigerator just thinking “I wish I could crush a family of pedestrians with this”
Hideous as fuck.
The DeLorean from Back to the Future at least had some charm and creative design.
This shit here just looks like what’d happen if you put the DeLorean into Blender and decimated the polys down to PS1 levels
This shit box is just a tin toy coffin on wheels.
The DeLorean from Back to the Future
You know the DeLorean came before Back to the Future, right?
DeLorean himself is basically what would happen if a guy tried to do what Musk did in the auto industry without being able to use a government carbon credit program to essentially get bankrolled by the rest of the auto industry. He pissed everyone off, delivered a subpar car that looked unique, then got busted for cocaine trafficking (though he was found not guilty by way of police entrapment) and went bankrupt.
It’s a sick as hell car though, I would love a modern, electric version.
You know the DeLorean came before Back to the Future, right?
I actually did not know this. Thanks for telling me. I never see any on the road so I wasn’t aware they were a thing before the movie.
It’s a sick as hell car though, I would love a modern, electric version.
Agreed. It would be a treat.
So I just learned after posting this that DMC is back and they’re literally making exactly that, but at $125K I guess I’ll just have to be satisfied with my Chevy Volt lmao.
When a car is the cost of a more “reasonably priced” house 🤣
Behold another recent collection of photos showcasing a proclivity for gaps and readiness to look absolutely filthy.
At (a rumored) $50k-100k this really is the bazingamobile par excellence.
Let me be clear, Sub 10 µm accuracy!
So any imperfection in the metal (e.g., poor manufacturing; dings, dents, chips, etc.) will be super blaringly obvious on these trucks, right? Like, maybe they’ll look ‘good’ during their first week or when you’re in light that doesn’t produce hard shadows or reflections, but it’s gotta be a steep and almost immediate decline thereafter?
You’d almost think that there was a reason why car paint and clear coat exists
Worked for the Delorean
Hell yeah it did, sexy thing
Couldn’t you get some sort of chrome paint to achieve a similar effect but with the added layers of protection. Though you’re probably just going to be shining the sun into other drivers’ eyes regularly.
Like, maybe they’ll look ‘good’ during their first week or when you’re in light that doesn’t produce hard shadows or reflections
Cybertruck: the best looking vehicle for people who live in a PS1 video game engine.
I think they chose the design because they thought piecing together and welding flat panels would be cheaper/faster than a curved fiberglass/carbon fiber body.
But it just looks like something someone made in their backyard. Like when a dad buys a Harbor Freight welder to make their kid a little play car. It looks like it’s going to rust and cut the shit out of me.
They chose the design because Elon Musk is a child and wanted to have a car from Bladerunner and then the engineers had to cobble something feasible out of Musk’s stupid demands
i have to figure he just made a drawing on a napkin and said “this is the future, make it for me”
It looks like some high school kids made it in shop class after they learned how to bend sheet metal.
You’re not even joking.
Back in the early 2010’s my engineering team in HS built an electric Hummer, looks basically the same as a cyber truck but with more diamond plate.
Stop trying to reinvent the pickup truck. Its form was mastered decades ago by the kei truck
Objectively correct take
At this point, I think comparing it to the Homer is a disservice to the Homer
Wonder how blinding this thing will be when driving behind it while the sun is shining.
Don’t worry folks, the NTSB would never allow dangerous vehicles on public roads
Oh fuck, I hadn’t thought of that before. It’s like a lifted truck with a chrome bumper at eye level (I drive an affordable sedan), but it’s the whole fucking thing.
Maybe the accidentally convex side panels will start fires.
A mobile Archimedes platform
It’s going to be a road hazard and I imagine (hope) people will start vandalizing them
I wonder if that duct tape came from the factory.
Actually, of course it did.
if they tinted it yellow and put big googly eyes on it, it would be the Coupe from Stunt Race FX on SNES. and the googly eyes would be the best thing about it. what a literal box of shit.
the shape makes no sense, it reduces the space in the back for no reason.
it’s kind of approaching the ideal “truck” for the average american, which is to say, the bed exists only for vanity not for putting things in
He’s got a solar panel on the back that will definitely generate enough electricity to power the vehicle, yes sure. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just a hater.
I think that’s a rolling door that covers the bed?
Flat panels are the easiest to model and render
they gotta be the easiest to manufacture too, right?
They lack rigidity in flat areas from the lack of contouring, so need to use a thicker gauge material to to keep panels stiff. You can even see the unintended curvature in the door panels
Elon Musk wondering why engineers use arches in construction and concluding it’s because they’re old-fashioned fuddy duddies
Yea, and also, like - the human eye is incredibly good at noticing any deviation from perfectly flat, especially if you’re talking about a semi-reflective bare-metal surface. Any little imperfection will immediately draw your eye because light bounces off it weird. There’s a reason every car manufacturer ever only evokes the sense of flatness, but usually incorporates some more complex bends, light lines, stuff that both serves stability functions, helps when the panel will inevitably contract or extend due to thermal differences annnnd makes you not see little imperfections in the geometry as easily.
Large flat surfaces also create a shitton of drag, which makes driving at high speeds a pain in the ass.
Imagine what these things are going to look like going from -10c to 50c