I actually really like the design of the Tesla Cybertruck.

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I actually really like the aesthetic of the Tesla Cybertruck. - Divisions by zero

Maybe it’s the retro-futuristic style or reminiscent of sci-fi and cyperpunk, but I genuinely really like the design. I would never buy one due to the MYRIAD issues plaguing the stainless steel body, interior build quality, or give Tesla money. But still a cool looking car, if nonfunctional truck.

Upvote because that truly is an unpopular opinion from what I’ve seen and I think they make the Pontiac Aztec look classy.
They make PT Crusiers look like a sick ride.
you’re pushing it, probably because it broke down
I like the cruiser.
You have horrible taste!
I’ll have you know I don’t.

There’s no offense intended just stating facts.

Some people like pt cruisers, some like crocs and others like to put gold details on every surface and having bad taste is okay!

Look, it’s okay that you can’t appreciate the modernized 1930s aesthetics and bold choices of the PT, some people like bland German cars. There’s room for everyone.
I like that you compare the taste of a certain fascist-leaning political leader to my stinky feet in crocs
Fuck, I had drive one for work for years. Uncomfortable as shit, never broke down or anything though.
I would not touch a cyberdump with a pole, but I would drive the shit out of an Aztek
This looks like a normal SUV to me. What’s so weird about it?
Maybe because from any angle it looks like a twice-pasted cutout of a late 90s hatchback?
The Aztec was also a huge disappointment in that the concept car design and features were outstanding but very different from what was eventually delivered
It’s actually futuristic, which would be neat if Tesla’s owner didn’t think that the societies that cyberpunk works depict are something to strife for. Plus, that kind of edgy design is hostile to cyclists and pedestrians.
All cars are hostile to pedestrians and cyclists
True, but it still makes a big difference whether they’ll die from a 30 km/h collision or a 15 km/h collision.
It’s also hostile to all other cars. The lack of crumple zone makes it a hazard to everyone and everything except the person in it.
IDK about the Cybertruck, but I’m not aware of an inherent reason why a car that has lots of sharp angles would have less crumple zone.

I’m pretty sure I heard/read about it in the past. I did some searching and found that it’s highly likely that my statement has been debunked.

So I stand corrected!

Which isn’t to say that I dont hate the damn thing. I still hope they all rust.

No, you’re still right in effect. It might have some crumple, but it performs terribly compared to real cars. The only thing that remotely saves it sorta’-kinda’ is it weighs a fuckton.
That’s due to its idiotic execution, though, not because it’s fundamentally impossible to build its outside shape with a decent crumple zone.
Its idiotic execution is reality. Some hypothetical execution by a non-neonazi moron is not the reality we live in.

which would be neat if Tesla’s owner didn’t think that the societies that cyberpunk works depict are something to strife for.

LOL at that Freudian slip!

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“Strife” instead of “strive.”
Ah. In my defence, I’m not a native speaker … calling it a ‘Freudian slip’ isn’t quite accurate when you don’t really know which one is right in the first place. And I still don’t really get what’s ‘Freudian’ about the meaning of the sentence as written.
Eh, “strife” is a highfalutin’ enough word that a lot of native English speakers are liable to make the same error. You’re just cleverer than you give yourself credit for, LOL!
I will second this very unpopular opinion. I don’t quite like the Tesla truck but I like that fresh direction. I think with some minor tweaks it could look a lot cooler and still keep the polygon sci-fi vibe. If it wasn’t being killed I bet future versions of it could have been really neat.
Meanwhile, in actual Cyberpunk media.
Hyundai N Vision 74 - Wikipedia

Nice. It’s certainly a step in the right direction.
It’s a hydrogen car, so a step in the wrong direction
Why is hydrogen a step in the wrong direction?
Because he’s a dummy that doesn’t understand how hydrogen cars work nor what their products are. Even a combustion hydrogen car is arguably better for the environment than a literal ton of lithium batteries.

A hydrogen car is a terrible idea.

Hydrogen is expensive to make and transport. So many electrical losses plus it would need more trucks on the road to deliver it to fueling stations.

It leaks extremely easily.

As of now, it requires platinum as a catalyst which is one of the most rare metals on earth.

Battery tech is changing every year. Sodium batteries should be right around the corner which the manufacturer claims will cost a lot less and be much less dangerous.

Sodium batteries are already a thing. They do not and cannot have the density of lithium batteries. Density is a critical part of efficient vehicles, as noone wants most of a car’s performance going in to hauling around the power source.

Yes, but there’s new sodium batteries on the way.

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I’ll believe it when I see it. Especially when the fuckheads don’t simply make it cost even more than lithium.

Because hydrogen is a greenwashing scam designed to prop up fossil fuels. They market it as eco-friendly based on the notion that you can make hydrogen by electrolyzing water using electricity from renewables, but in practice almost all of it comes steam-reforming of natural gas.

Frankly, at that point you might as well just pipe the natural gas to the fuel stations and build CNG cars with normal combustion engines (or at least natural gas fuel cells) instead.

And it’s never going to fulfill that promise in the long-term either, because hydrogen gas storage technology sucks even worse than batteries and is just falling even further behind as battery technology improves.

Hell, even if we did have an excess of cheap renewable electricity with which to electrolyze water into hydrogen gas, the most practical and effective way to store and transport it for automotive use would be to add CO~2~ to it to make a synthetic hydrocarbon fuel, not try to use it as-is in a hydrogen car!

I’m talking about aesthetics, not functionality.
200 unites in 2026. Definitely going to be some dort of collector car or something unfortunately because now I want my Honda to limp by until those come out.

Ironically, the car it’s based on does slightly resemble the cyber truck, but in a reasonable size and not stupidly raw steel.

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Huh. I have no issue directly accessing the file. Still, I’m sure you can all find examples of car designs from CP2077 on your own.
This car is way cooler
I don’t think it’s fair to compare it with a sports car, though. That’s a different genre.
We’re talking about Cyberpunk aesthetics. Christ, the only thing in lore that looks even remotely like the Cybertruck is the Makigai MaiMai.
It’s more an 80s aesthetic than cyberpunk aesthetic. It’s basically a big dumbed down version of a Delorean.
Agreed. In fact, the Delorean was pretty darned Cyberpunk for its time.

I’d say that it’s 80s concept car aesthetic specifically, which is what a lot of people found attractive about it when it was announced. Then we saw more and more of it, and it started to look less like a concept car and more like a rolling dumpster with the same levels of tetanus risk as the real deal.

I think the cars in 2077 also have an 80s aesthetic, but it’s 80s retro-futurism dystopia (cyberpunk was founded in the 70s and 80s, so it makes perfect sense) which runs the full gambit from supercar to super cheap, and I’d take any of those over the Cybertruck any day.

What I really want is this Cadillac electric concept vehicle that is like the car of a rich Shadowrun villain who has a sexy, mute personal assistant who is also a cyborg ninja assassin.
I respect and admire your priorities - and your awareness of Shadowrun. Clearly, you’re a person of culture.

If you have 350K lying around the Cadillac Celestiq can be yours today!

Also, consider this an official petition to bring back (affordable) station wagons in the EV age instead of bending over backwards to get any sort of useful range out of trucks masquerading as SUVs

Nice, an unpopular opinion. Good on you.

It looks like the truck that a person who’s never used a truck would build.

Like you described vaguely what a truck looked like to a caveman who was dying from a high fever and he drew it on a wall with his own shit.
That describes Elon’s brain pretty well.
From some angles it looks cool, but from others it’s not very well designed. When it was first unveiled I liked the boldness, but in the end even the design comes apart rather quickly.
Exactly. The aesthetic itself isn't the problem (although not at all what I would want my vehicle to look like), it's just really badly executed. Some features like the headlight bar looks cool from certain angles, but all the proportions just feel wrong, the silhouette is awful and it just looks so enormous and stupid in person.