Such peer pressure bothers most humans, but why it ESPECIALLY WORKS HERE is that no one who bought this garbage did so because it's a great truck.
They wanted people to look at them and go 'OMG YOU ARE SO COOL'
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It is absolutely hilarious to me, because of how much everyone was mocking it long before it arrived. No one was fawning over it but Elon fanboys, and it got worse and worse... and now they've stuck up their heads and are feeling the way the wind's been blowing for a long time.
I think some did buy because prior versions of Tesla scratched that novelty itch (in the tech-y sense) and they had that progress illusion. Up to now, Tesla has had issues but have not been complete garbage. Some is for external validation. Anyway, people do need to learn to give up both of those.
I so wanted to go to the Silicon Valley Auto Show this year & laugh at the Cybertruck droolers, but Iโm over 50 & thus invisible to them, donโt know enough 20-30 y.o. women to accompany me in the mockery!
Truck guys FAMOUSLY HATE TESLAS. They'll park their trucks right up against Supercharger stations, block in Tesla driver doors, all sorts of petty shit. It's great. These dorks thought they could buy truck credibility with the dork truck and it blew up.
PERSONAL TRUCKS are not cool. They've NEVER been cool. I grew up in the South, which is Truck Country, and EVERYONE made fun of truck owners.
Commercial trucks maybe, but that's cause they're so big. Not personal trucks.
A major disconnect between people with money and people who work for a living
I put a deposit on a Cybertruck, for one reason and one reason alone; the promised price/performance ratio was gamechanging.
Not to my great surprise, they overdelivered on price, and underdelivered on performance. Cancelled.
I don't give a toss what it looks like or who does or doesn't buy it.
I have a colleague who I thought of as IMMENSELY cool, who I just found out is still waiting for his.
I suppose he could have been speaking sarcastically when he spoke of having one reserved.