Has a car manufacturer ever lied about rated tow weights in recent memory? I genuinely don't see the incentive - it would just lead to crashes, warranty claims and eventually a class action lawsuit, or worse if deaths resulted. People rely on these numbers to drive safely.

14,000 lbs is absolutely within realms of normal/possible for a nearly 20 foot long 6000lb truck - its more or less exactly the same as high-spec Ford trucks.

Has Tesla ever promised something and not delivered, I think that's the real question. Another question is, how often are Teslas totaled for what would be a minor accident in another vehicle?

All that twisting and bending force being applied to a unibody, I can't see it ending well.

Tesla's Model X (depending on options) has a towing capacity of 5k lbs [1]. As far as I can tell, nobody is claiming that this is false and there's a few anecdotes of people with 5k campers they tow.

So, afaik, historical claims by Tesla on towing capacity are true so there seems to be more reason to believe a future towing claim is accurate based on previous towing claims than believe it's false because previous non-towing claims have been false.

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-7A684E2...

5k on a unibody is standard. I'm just talking about feature claims in general.

I think we're going to see Cybertrucks with totally trashed frames if they try to go live with 14k loads.

It's standard in the sense that the vast majority of unibody vehicles produced today have a 5k towing limit.