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Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by HarHarVeryFunny on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:58AM (#50393103)
I wonder how many people liked the design vs tolerated it? If Ford offered a cybertruck trim on the F-150 without changing the price would people buy it?

No doubt there is some demand for an "out there" design, but I'd have to guess that the projected $40K price was itself a large part of the attraction.

Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by alt227 on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:03AM (#50393178)
Possibly, but as it cost $100k to put down a deposit I would be surprised if that many people were willing to actually pay for something they only tolerated.
Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by HarHarVeryFunny on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:30AM (#50393553)
It was a refundable deposit (and small), so I wonder how many people were even that serious - no real commitment.

2019 USA annual car/pickup sales were ~17M. I find it very hard to believe that 10% (2M cybertruck pre-orders) of those purchasers were seriously interested in a cybertruck - it really is not a design made for mainstream tastes.

Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by alt227 on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:18AM (#50394360)
If you owned a company and announced a product that 2 million people went and paid you $100 each for to preorder it, Im pretty sure you would think differently.
Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by HarHarVeryFunny on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:40PM (#50395593)
Not sure what you mean by that - I'm sure Tesla was happy to have the reservations (great publicity - maybe that was the point), but there is no indication they took the numbers seriously.