> said to have a starting price of under $40,000 back then (and then around $61,000 last year when it was available to order but never actually entered production), you'll now have to pony up $71,985 for it, including $1,995 destination.
Tesla's pre-sale prices have always been hilarious.
I was seriously considering a cybertruck, but by launch (and directly after), it became clear that it was a lifestyle truck, not an actual utility vehicle
In case you’re wondering, motorcycles are a hobby of mine, and the most common negative review I’ve heard is that the gate weight is just low enough that two people trying to get a big bike in, occasionally, can do many thousands of dollars of damage
Right, because it's not actually a real truck. Real trucks are body on frame, a structure that doesn't distort under load. The CT is a unibody (monocoque) which can't support a real load from above or behind without deforming or snapping into pieces. It's a joke. It's a Hyundai Santa Fe that's been jacked up and weighed down with overthick steel panels that bring no value to the vehicle as a truck. It's a car pretending to be a pickup truck, which is fine for the suburban family that needs to grab a few bags of lawn fertilizer at Home Depot once a year, but it's not a real pickup truck and any comparison to even a 20 year old F-150 would be a crushing defeat in all normal pickup tasks.
This is entirely accurate, but there's a legion of "real" pickup trucks roaming North American roads that exist no less for show than the Tesla. At this point, they're probably the vast majority.
In the EU no one would think twice about towing the aforementioned big bike with a cheap trailer attached to a Honda Civic. Coming from someone who's towed a lot of bikes, it's an arrangement that makes more sense than an American pickup on several levels.
I like body on frame pickups as much as the next guy, but let’s not pretend that the overwhelming majority of pickup drivers in North America wouldn’t be better served by a Hyundai Santa Cruz, a Ford Maverick, or a Honda Ridgeline than whatever cowboy cosplay monstrosity they’re driving.
(As the former owner of a body on frame Nissan hardbody and a Chevy S10 compact pickup, I just put down a deposit on a Maverick because I’ve got no interest in any of the modern-sized body on frame pickups, and there was too much overhead involved in importing a Mitsubishi Triton from Mexico to Canada and figuring out how to source parts.)
Yes, and what it’s rated for isn’t enough for serious use
Oh btw, there’s growing evidence that the hitch is significantly over-rated and may lead to some serious lawsuits. Nothing conclusive, but nobody’s ever shipped that kind of frame in a “serious” full load truck before for a reason.
I've just watched video[0] from Engineering Explained and it did pretty good job explaining why other manufacturers overrate their towing capacity. Basically they design their trucks for 95th percentile of towers.
Tesla's pre-sale prices have always been hilarious.