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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by ramesh31 on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:53AM (#50393906)
>"Elon truly was inspired by Delorean"

He wishes. Delorean is a modern classic, regardless of commercial success. Cybertruck will go down like the H1/H2; something entirely emblematic of the times it was conceived and marketed in, that later generations will go "did they really think that was cool?".

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by linksnapzz on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:14AM (#50394285)
A modern classic, thanks to Bob Zemeckis; without whom it would've been right up there with the Bricklin SV-1.

Setting aside JohnZ's personal failings, the car and its production was a catastrophe.

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by mingus88 on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:27AM (#50394503)
Hilariously the deloreon speedo didn’t even go up to 88
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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by linksnapzz on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:54AM (#50394897)
Part of that was a NHTSA rule that hilariously (from 79-82) made 85mph speedometers mandatory; but even later, because of tooling costs, those dials persisted.

Not that the DMC-1's PRV v6 and tall Renault 5-speed were gonna make getting to 85 easy...

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