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Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt (www.arenaev.com)
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Tesla Cybertruck appears to be facing significant sales challenges. After initial hype faded, and over a million reservations turned out to be as real as unicorns, Tesla is now enabling leasing options and free upgrades to move its inventory of the futuristic pickup truck. The company's recent silence on the Cybertruck, even omitting it from their earnings call, speaks volumes about the situation.

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year. After working through the initial reservation backlog with fewer than 40,000 deliveries, the automaker is now struggling to sell the remaining vehicles.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A bad pickup truck is still just a pickup truck.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Yep, what else could you call it? It's not a hatchback, a sedan, a convertible, a sports car, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Trash.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Swasticar

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

Incel Camino

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

An enormous mistake?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's an Ute (as the Australians et al. call it), like the old El Camino etc.

Real pickups have body-on-frame construction with cabs and beds bolted onto the chassis separately, so that the bed can be removed and replaced with a specialized/custom one if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

Calling it a ute implies some degree of utility.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

A kid's drawing of a car come to life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Hakencruiser

[–] corsicanguppy 4 points 1 day ago

The worst El Camino ever?