And sold 70,000 total. The fact that ~96.5% of preorders were cancelled should tell you all you need to know about popularity.

I was replying to the parent comment where they said:

> Musk was a fool to mistake the hollering of a small group of enthusiasts for that of the truck-buying U.S. population. Nobody was actually wanting for the CyberTruck. He should've listened to his marketing people and not be guided by social media and his right-wing instinct.

It wasnt social media and his 'right wing instinct' whatever that is. Is was massive amounts of paid pre-orders feeding their opinions that it was going to be popular.

EDIT: Oh I see you have edited your comment since I wrote mine. The massive amounts of pre order cancellation came after it was released, so how does that factor into their initial opinions that it would be popular during development?

Based on the lie about how much it would cost, how many they could produce, and how soon they would be delivered...

Even very ugly cars will sell if they give you a really good deal for the money. The Cybertruck at $39,999 was a shockingly good deal. It was just a lie.

No one is arguing that, but in turn you cant argue there was real buzz and popularity of the product on announcement. Whether that was caused by a lie or not is irrelevant, it was popular big time before anyone knew what the real product was going to be like.