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XanaDUer2

(15,770 posts)
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 01:22 PM Feb 2025

Saw my 1st Tesla today

And I'm not just saying this bc i hate his guts. That is the ugliest car I've even seen and Id b embarrassed to drive it. Vroom vroom

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Saw my 1st Tesla today (Original Post) XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 OP
There is at least one in my general neighborhood LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2025 #1
You mean Cybertruck? WarGamer Feb 2025 #2
Idk enuf abt them XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 #5
They are still quite rare in some very rural areas. I almost never see a Tesla in NW Montana. Maru Kitteh Feb 2025 #24
They truly do look like rolling dumpsters SheltieLover Feb 2025 #3
Nazi Wedge design EYESORE 9001 Feb 2025 #12
Just read about that in an automotive magazine. Portions of strips near the front allegorical oracle Feb 2025 #17
Looks like shit you'd throw together in HS shop class with left over stuff.... Bengus81 Feb 2025 #33
I'm assuming you mean the Cryptoyota Incelica... regnaD kciN Feb 2025 #4
Nope literally nvr saw 1 in real life XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 #6
You must men the hideous, stainless steel Cybertruck that rusts, right, as regular Tesla cars have been around for... brush Feb 2025 #9
I'll go with that XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 #10
Swasticar UpInArms Feb 2025 #30
Stealing Cryptoyota Incelica! GoneOffShore Feb 2025 #42
You must have seen a Cybertruck, a/k/a Swastikar, Ocelot II Feb 2025 #7
Ah XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 #8
A fish market failed nitpicked Feb 2025 #11
Are you in Arlington? Nt spooky3 Feb 2025 #28
A while ago racoons were jumping up on one of those cars - apparently they thought it was a garbage bin Stargazer99 Feb 2025 #13
Tesla stock CentralMass Feb 2025 #14
And Still Way Overvalued ProfessorGAC Feb 2025 #15
Lately Traildogbob Feb 2025 #16
A popular thing to do with them is to have them wrapped in various designs. Actually haven't allegorical oracle Feb 2025 #18
Toilet paper perhaps. CentralMass Feb 2025 #21
Two words: Contact Paper. It certainly wouldn't make them look much *worse*. Buns_of_Fire Feb 2025 #22
I saw one yesterday with an opalescent wrap bedazzled Feb 2025 #38
stainless meh. we got black fridge years ago. pansypoo53219 Feb 2025 #39
Don't diss Traildogbob Feb 2025 #40
i am so sick of the stainless look. black matches our tiled kitchen trim. pansypoo53219 Feb 2025 #44
OK Donald! Meh Traildogbob Feb 2025 #45
the stainless look is at least 20 years old.HGTV demands "NEW"! pansypoo53219 Feb 2025 #46
Weird that you've never seen a Tesla before. Where to you live? hardluck Feb 2025 #19
In a SE red state XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 #20
Teslas are all over where I live. Tons of them on the road. Not many Cybertrucks, though... Wounded Bear Feb 2025 #23
I saw a bilious green Cybertruck today TexasBushwhacker Feb 2025 #25
I saw one parked in the parking lot and it stuck out about 3-4 feet past suvs into the lot. Clouds Passing Feb 2025 #26
about 10 years ago I loved the Tesla. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2025 #27
Are you a hermit? maxsolomon Feb 2025 #29
Yes I'm housebound XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 #35
Incel camino n/t gay texan Feb 2025 #31
The Model S/Y/X/3 are everywhere in the suburbs where I live. Shermann Feb 2025 #32
I saw my first Tesla Truck sometime last year, & yes it is ugly. There's an old saying... Hekate Feb 2025 #34
A short distance from my house (3-4 miles) Grammy23 Feb 2025 #36
I saw one in the parking garage near one of the museums in Atlanta malaise Feb 2025 #37
Looks to me Traildogbob Feb 2025 #41
Saw the following comment on News Thump - (UK satire site) GoneOffShore Feb 2025 #43

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,231 posts)
1. There is at least one in my general neighborhood
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 01:26 PM
Feb 2025

Both my youngest child and I have seen one or two teslas

Maru Kitteh

(31,696 posts)
24. They are still quite rare in some very rural areas. I almost never see a Tesla in NW Montana.
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 07:19 PM
Feb 2025

Very cold winters, LONG distances, very few charging stations. No Teslas. One massive assclown drives a CyberDumpster.

SheltieLover

(80,148 posts)
3. They truly do look like rolling dumpsters
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 01:27 PM
Feb 2025

And to make matters better, they are literally glued together. (Welding stainless would cost too much. Wtf do you want for $100k+?)

allegorical oracle

(6,436 posts)
17. Just read about that in an automotive magazine. Portions of strips near the front
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 02:19 PM
Feb 2025

windshields and the top of doors fly off at highway speeds. That would seem hazardous to other drivers. The writer said he found the quarter panels were also glued and can come off. He suspected that the adhesive doesn't adjust well to weather changes. But those rolling uglies are too expensive to be losing parts.

regnaD kciN

(27,623 posts)
4. I'm assuming you mean the Cryptoyota Incelica...
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 01:27 PM
Feb 2025

…a.k.a. CyberTruck? Because I can’t imagine anyone going the past decade without seeing one of their earlier Swasticars.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
9. You must men the hideous, stainless steel Cybertruck that rusts, right, as regular Tesla cars have been around for...
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 01:38 PM
Feb 2025

years and are nothing special to look at, kind of ordinary in styling form the '90s.

Ocelot II

(130,377 posts)
7. You must have seen a Cybertruck, a/k/a Swastikar,
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 01:33 PM
Feb 2025

which looks like a big aluminum trash can. Regular Teslas, which have been around for 10 years or so, are pretty normal-looking and don't especially stand out, but the Cybertruck is an aesthetic blight.

nitpicked

(1,781 posts)
11. A fish market failed
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 01:41 PM
Feb 2025

Then a Maserati/Fiat place failed.

Let's see if the Tesla place does the same.

Stargazer99

(3,510 posts)
13. A while ago racoons were jumping up on one of those cars - apparently they thought it was a garbage bin
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 01:56 PM
Feb 2025

ProfessorGAC

(76,591 posts)
15. And Still Way Overvalued
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 02:10 PM
Feb 2025

I think they've reached the early mature phase & potential doesn't justify a market cap of 8-10x assets.

Traildogbob

(12,998 posts)
16. Lately
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 02:10 PM
Feb 2025

There has been one of those silver toasters riding around here in WNC. Not surprised with the amount of illegal FloriDUH immigrants (White Rich Republicans) that have a second and third home up here. Randi Rhodes says Fla is full of those damn things.
But about 6 weeks ago I needed to replace a 25 year old frig. Instead of regular white I chose one of the silver ones.
Now all I see in my kitchen is an ugly Musk contraption.
So I fill the outside with all the Local venue Shows of my fav artists. Shawn Mullins, Todd Snyder, and Jason Isbell. I gotta go out to a few more shows to Cover the Musk reminder, that otherwise I am damn glad to have upgraded my old ass fridge. And is quite, Energy efficient.

allegorical oracle

(6,436 posts)
18. A popular thing to do with them is to have them wrapped in various designs. Actually haven't
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 02:23 PM
Feb 2025

seen a wrapped one, but maybe that helps them look better.

Buns_of_Fire

(19,135 posts)
22. Two words: Contact Paper. It certainly wouldn't make them look much *worse*.
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 04:11 PM
Feb 2025

And as a side benefit, the contact paper would help hold the thing together!

bedazzled

(1,885 posts)
38. I saw one yesterday with an opalescent wrap
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 09:40 PM
Feb 2025

Looked like it was coated with multicolored nail polish.

Guy driving it, too. It was hysterical.

Garbage vehicle.

Traildogbob

(12,998 posts)
40. Don't diss
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 01:20 PM
Feb 2025

My damn new frig. Black meh!!! Don’t you know orange is the new black. Black is forbidden in today MurKKKa.

pansypoo53219

(23,024 posts)
44. i am so sick of the stainless look. black matches our tiled kitchen trim.
Thu Feb 27, 2025, 04:45 AM
Feb 2025

stainless trend should have died a decade ago. like the all white shit. meow.

Traildogbob

(12,998 posts)
45. OK Donald! Meh
Thu Feb 27, 2025, 09:49 AM
Feb 2025

My stainless matches my stainless shag carpet, my stainless walls, my stainless couch and chair, my stainless roof and fake log siding is stainless, my toilet, tub, my stainless mirrors, all my guitars are stainless, my black lab is dyed stainless grey.
Get over it.

hardluck

(781 posts)
19. Weird that you've never seen a Tesla before. Where to you live?
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 03:35 PM
Feb 2025

In California, the Tesla Model Y was the most popular car sold in 2024.

Wounded Bear

(64,253 posts)
23. Teslas are all over where I live. Tons of them on the road. Not many Cybertrucks, though...
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 04:23 PM
Feb 2025

Those are fugly TBS. Tesla sedans, I wouldn't call them ugly, but they are nothing special in the looks department. Pretty cookie cutter.

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,409 posts)
27. about 10 years ago I loved the Tesla.
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 07:50 PM
Feb 2025

I'd look for them, count them and watched the markets climb.

Eloon didn't make the Tesla. He invested in it and, like with Twitter, ruined it. As he is out to do to the country.

Where's the sheriff? Put this one man destruction derby in shackles so that he can't hurt more people.

maxsolomon

(38,635 posts)
29. Are you a hermit?
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 07:58 PM
Feb 2025

I'll probably see 30 of them on my 9-mile drive home. Models S, X, & 3. Very popular w/ Lyft/Uber drivers.

Maybe only 1 Cybertruck...

Shermann

(9,056 posts)
32. The Model S/Y/X/3 are everywhere in the suburbs where I live.
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 08:28 PM
Feb 2025

I've seen maybe four Cybertrucks.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
34. I saw my first Tesla Truck sometime last year, & yes it is ugly. There's an old saying...
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 08:40 PM
Feb 2025

… (I think it was about coke when I first heard it) that it’s God’s way of telling you that you have too much money.

I do not have too much money, so I guess I am safe from a smiting.

Grammy23

(6,121 posts)
36. A short distance from my house (3-4 miles)
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 08:53 PM
Feb 2025

There is a Tesla facility (maybe repair shop?). The unpaved parking area is filled up with the cars and lots of the Cybertrucks. Lots and lots of the cartoonish vehicles. It has all the charm of a shade tree mechanic’s shop. It is the largest collection of those ugly jalopies in one spot outside of a cargo ship bringing them here for wanna bee MAGAs and suck-ups.

Not sure what the appeal is but for some reason, Tesla cars and cyber trucks are not that rare in NW Florida.

malaise

(295,646 posts)
37. I saw one in the parking garage near one of the museums in Atlanta
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 08:55 PM
Feb 2025

Like you I thought it was ugly

Traildogbob

(12,998 posts)
41. Looks to me
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 01:22 PM
Feb 2025

The damn truck is one big ass blind spot waiting to run over anything in the way.
Kind of represents the billionaires, one view, don’t give a damn about any other line of sight, just stay the hell out of my way.

GoneOffShore

(18,018 posts)
43. Saw the following comment on News Thump - (UK satire site)
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 01:45 PM
Feb 2025
Bought a new Tesla Model SS last week. The auto steer keeps veering to the far right and the sat nav insisted on going via Poland. Does anyone know how to change it?

Someone replied :
it's an easy fix, it's just in Blitzkrieg mode.

Followed by:
No matter what the satnav says, stay out of Stalingrad, in fact, avoid Russia at all costs.

And because there's always a joker:
could be worse. I bought a second hand car from Bonnie Tyler. It keeps turning around, and every now and then it falls apart.


I have yet to see a Wankpanzer aka Incelmino aka Cryptoyota Incelica (thank you regnaD kciN) aka Swastikar here, but the other Swasticar models are available in France.

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