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Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because Wheels May Fall Off (www.kbb.com)
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[–] 198 points 6 months ago (29 children)

All 173 of them.

Yes, you read that correctly:

Tesla only sold 173 of the Cybertruck RWD base model.

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    How many versions of the trashcan are there?

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Iirc but cant be arsed to check, 3 models - base (rwd) mid range (awd) and premium (awd with a bigger battery)

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    I see multiple daily near Vancouver - how many are repeat I don't know though

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    It's hard to tell when they're all the same color.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    i saw multiple ones that were rapped with different patterns of collor. still ugly asf.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I have a friend who wants to get one just so he can wrap it in a badly-aliased texture like the PS1 would have, just to riff on how much it looks like someone was scrimping for polygons when they designed it.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 51 points 6 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 116 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

    Please don't reproduce.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months 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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