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Re:Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for... by asadotzler on Sunday April 13, 2025 @03:10PM (#43675110)
Not really. The point of the design was a single sheet of heavy steel folded origami style into an exoskeleton that the powertrain, suspension and other bits all hanged off of.

That completely novel design would have been neat to see, and perhaps worth the required aesthetic. But that was not to be.

They dropped the origami single steel panel, then they abandoned the whole idea of an exoskeleton design and opted not for a body on frame like all good pickup trucks, but a unibody that puts them in the Ford Maverick or Hyundai Santa Cruz category, light duty, but at 4 times the price with a pretty awful aesthetic, and from a company whose owner has become a pariah among decent people.

Re:Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for... by disqard on Sunday April 13, 2025 @08:48PM (#43677056)
> a company whose owner has become a pariah among decent people

That's the "cherry on top" of this dung-heap.