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B.See

(8,869 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:57 PM Sep 2025

A Cybertruck Review

Allow me to lighten the mood a wee bit with this semi-whimsical tale.

Earlier today, for only the second time ever, I saw a Cybertruck up close and impersonal-like, and the second was worse than the first.

I'd mosied up behind the thing in an evening interstate slowdown, and at first couldn't quite place what I was looking at.

I saw a flat sheet of (metal?) before me with NOTHING on it, and for a second wondered whether I was looking at some kind of barricade or something, until the driver apparently tapped his brakes, whereupon I beheld two obscenely small red rectangular lights mounted at either end atop the sheet of metal.

And even then I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at until I pulled around its hard angles and sharp box-like edges.

Who drew up this profile anyway? A kindergartener?

Now, having seen online pictures of these things, I once wrote that they resembled dumpsters, silly me. Because, as it turns out, pictures don't quite do justice to how horrific these... vehicles... truly look, in all their glory.

Suffice it to say, I was outdone.

So, to dumpsters everywhere and of every kind, please accept my sincerest apologies.

(And to owners, admittedly, a taste I've yet to acquire.) 

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A Cybertruck Review (Original Post) B.See Sep 2025 OP
I confirm your observations cyclonefence Sep 2025 #1
Pretty sure Elon designed the Cybertruck when he was 7. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2025 #2
I was horrified... Queso Delicioso Sep 2025 #3
You can't. rubbersole Sep 2025 #9
That would be a weird move for me Queso Delicioso Sep 2025 #12
The Simpsons did predict this, y'know... buzzycrumbhunger Sep 2025 #4
The worst? There's a lime green Deplorean I see around my area. QED Sep 2025 #5
Pshaw, I saw a yellowish green Aztec. Disaffected Sep 2025 #8
A stainless steel mobile dumpster. NT Enter stage left Sep 2025 #6
My first thought when seeing one .... "fugly" Shellback Squid Sep 2025 #7
Not just ugly BidenRocks Sep 2025 #10
Lol. Yeah... all that's missing is B.See Sep 2025 #11

cyclonefence

(5,167 posts)
1. I confirm your observations
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:59 PM
Sep 2025

It's just hard to figure out *why*? Truly a puzzlement, as somebody said.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,607 posts)
2. Pretty sure Elon designed the Cybertruck when he was 7.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:02 PM
Sep 2025

And, by god, he brought his vision to fruition.

Queso Delicioso

(209 posts)
3. I was horrified...
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:15 PM
Sep 2025

to see that one of my coworkers had a picture of himself with one of these beasts as his desktop wallpaper. How am I supposed to respect him in any way?

Queso Delicioso

(209 posts)
12. That would be a weird move for me
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:50 PM
Sep 2025

Being an atheist and all. But if I were to do such a thing it would to pray he roasts in Hell forever.

QED

(3,365 posts)
5. The worst? There's a lime green Deplorean I see around my area.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:42 PM
Sep 2025

I live fairly close to a Tesla location and see a lot of them around.

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