Tesla Cybertruck sales surge 61% in July, outsells direct rivals
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This is peek Musk seething
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Of course this is undoubtedly the type of soyboy that will seethe if you say that tattoos are trashy, or that a woman's body count says something about her personality.
Stereotypes for me but not for thee.
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Stfu BIPOC don't pretend that 5 years ago soyboys weren't Teslas primary customers.
If Musk was still the Space Daddy genius saviour of mankind soyking, your cute twinky butt would be on the exact opposite side of this argument.
Total death to wingcucks.
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uhh nothing I said implies otherwise.
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I've always wanted an EV since I was a kid so I doubt it.
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You think he actually believes that silicon valley sexy Indian dudes and asians care what some white ultra soy thinks about owning a Tesla?
lmao
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As someone who works in Silicon Valley with sexy Indian dudes and Asians, many of them do actually care about this to some extent. Though they mostly personally boycott Musk rather than demand others do in the usual wingcucks fashion.
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There's the refresh
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Literally none of those comparisons are true lmao
The R1T is worse off in pure specs compared to the top of the line CT
The ford lightning is 10s of thousands more expensive than the comparable specced CT, not even accounting for dealeship markup. Also the Lightning loses Ford money.
The hummer EV, just lol
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The biggest soy podcast I listen to "Accidental Tech Podcast" has a host who founded Tumblr and is loaded but musk lives rent free in his head.
He has a Tesla and sold it cause musk and now has a R1T that's going to the shop for months
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It looks like an r-slurmobile but so many people sneed at it that I feel the natural calling to root for it, or at least for both sides to take some Ls.
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Can't wait till it i evitably drives on the fricking sidewalk and pancakes 8 people
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haven't those things been proven to be shit? like multiple times over?
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I dont think the people buying it are interested in a durable truck. They are buying it because it's a wacky sci-fi mobile.
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When you giving your review?
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It's not street-legal in Bongistan
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Everything good/cool is illegal in bongistan
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Is that because it has a pointed tip?
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Yeah, also it's so heavy you'd need a special C1 driving loisense.
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It's bulletproof if you shoot it but if you hit it with a golf club or something it's not
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circumcised-cels confirmed illegal in bongland
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NO SCI FI TRUCKS. ONLY ABSURDLY TALL TIPPY BUSSES
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It's like a G-Wagen or Classic Defender, it doesn't matter how good or bad it is, people are buying it for the image alone
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It is not a good off-road vehicle. Tesla has made a few commercials implying that it is, which have been widely mocked, with videos showing CTs failing to perform in off-road conditions. But the same whiners who say this will also complain that the majority of truck drivers don't drive their trucks off-road. Otherwise, the issues are meh. The bed is not convenient. The panels get stained. And of course it's Tesla, you might get a manufacturing defect and you have to use a touchscreen for everything. But that's the same as all of their other cars!
It looks dumb but it's not the huge disaster Reddit wants it to be.
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Whistlin Diesel snapped his towing mount off without seemingly trying, part of the frame snapped away with it. He repeated it with a F150 but way worse and excessive. The whole frame bent but didn't snap and it was still somewhat drivable. He also found stacked washers on his CT.
Junk vehicles for idiots.
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Idk it looks r-slurred and electric cars suck balls regardless of what tech dweebs will tell you. Not sure anything beyond that matters
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No.
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B-but actually it's cringe and everyone hates Elon! Look at the videos of them stuck in the snow!
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"This r-slurred looking car is cool actually!!!"
@Grue stand with israel
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It has built in cameras so you watch watch real footage of angry redditors flipping off your car, how is it not perfect?
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It doesn't automatically shoot them when you drive by
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looks like a low poly Halo CE Warthog, which means it's cool by extension
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How are chuds so easily manipulated into defending an r-slured garbage mobile like this?
You can suck on Leon's balls without having to eat his shit you know.
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The haters make it really hard not to
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Lowkey dramaphobia being against Elon's cybertruck spawn
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They must have never actually been close to a cyber truck. They're not that big
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Also why would you buy a truck if you cared about obstructions like the elderly or cyclists
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People call it ugly or stupid or whatever but it's probably the car that will get you the most attention and interest out there, even more than a sports car. This makes seethe really hard, and they don't realize that they're part of the problem. If I earned like 500k then I'd totally get one, otherwise it's too unreliable and expensive.
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Yeah people go crazy when they see my friend's cybertruck. Hot girls smile at you when you're sitting in one. Kids run onto the street to take pictures of it. He's had cops in Canada pull him over to ask if its street legal, lol. But the best part is all of the geriatrics that ask him what type of car it is. The shape of the truck breaks their conception of what a car looks like.
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This is what fricking cybertruck people imagine
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And most of it negative.
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Can't wait till the fricking lawsuits arrive cause it's not street legal
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False. Deloreans exist and they're cheaper.
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I guess seeing the frame literally snap in half was a selling point
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The more I see them in real life the more they're growing on me tbh
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Oh no, Tesla's going to fall so far behind Kia and VW since they didn't release their first three row electric SUV in 2024 like them and instead did it in 2015.
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Tbf, the third row in Teslas are laughable. They're pretty much jump seats. I can't even believe they offer it in the Model Y.
I say all that, but I haven't seen an EV9, so perhaps the competition isn't much better.
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EV9 third row isn't great, I've honestly never seen a third row X in person though. Ten second Google search says 32.2" leg room in the Tesla and 32" in the Kia, but I've found legroom specs are borderline useless so
Buzz third row will probably be very useable but I'm trying to pretend they don't exist because even if I have literally no use for one, I kind of want one and I'm way too impulsive.
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Move yourself to /dev/null
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