• limonfiesta@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    All 173 of them.

    Yes, you read that correctly:

    Tesla only sold 173 of the Cybertruck RWD base model.

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      23 hours ago

      That makes sense.
      If you want a Cybertruck, you want the all-wheel version.

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        23 hours ago

        If you want a Cybertruck, you want the all-wheel version a vasectomy.

        Please don’t reproduce.

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        15 hours ago

        I sure would want an overweight ford pinto reinvisioned as a modern brutalist steel casket that is less mobile than the original model-t.

        This fine piece of… engineering that:

        … struggles to run (and drive) in the cold…

        … has routine problems in humidify and (god forbid) rain…

        … AND elicits the same public response as a clown car …

        … Really just fills that void in me.

        … On my daily commute in my rental car to pay for the rental and my fortress of solitude on wheels that is out of commission - again - for another comical reason.

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      23 hours ago

      I was living in Arlington VA near the new Amazon corporate HQ. I feel like I saw all 173 of those things.

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          13 hours ago

          You should scrape an identification number into the doors, hood, roof, and rear. Just so you can keep track. For science.

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              4 hours ago

              The best color I’ve seen so far has been gloss black because it kinda hides the shape.

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            18 hours ago

            Here in Canada they get vinyl wrapped pretty quick to help protect from the salt.

            As such they are pretty identifiable. There’s about 3 in my neighborhood I see from time to time.

            I actually thought they were interesting looking when they first pitched them. Would never buy one now though for all obvious reasons.

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        20 hours ago

        I almost replied similarly, just means they didn’t sell many BASE models.

        I live in a relatively rural area outside a city “highway loop” and I see them all the time here. Someone down the road at a small business owns one so I see that one all the time but there are plenty around here and often wrapped in some weird colors.

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          8 hours ago

          i saw a large in crease in tesla starting last year, as soon as people forgot about MUSK doing his doge shit in the wh, saw a increase in purchases.

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      23 hours ago

      That probably just means that the Elon fanboys with enough money for it went for the higher-end AWD versions.