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Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year::Tesla may agree to buy the truck back at the original price minus "$0.25/mile driven" and any damages and repairs.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (36 children)

As much as I dislike Musk, I think this is a right move, as scalpers became a real plague during Covid.

But I am genuinely curious if they will ever sell it outside the US. This design seems far too dangerous for pedestrians and I can't believe that EU authorities would approve it. Aren't car hoods supposed to be of a very soft aluminium which is supposed to soften slightly the impact on a pedestrian in case of an accident? And what about if this monster is involved in front collision with some small car, like Renault Twingo here? I guess the chance of survivability of the Twingo passengers would be near zero.

Plus correct me if I am wrong but what happens if you have a small accident? Are they going to charge you for the full cast? Why aren't people more concerned about this? The repairability of this car looks terrible.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I mean, if assholes can buy and flip houses, I should be able to buy and flip my poorly built cyber truck.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was just up until last year that I dreamt of owning a Tesla. But now with all this shit and musk’s shit I’d be ashamed to own one.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I kinda feel bad for the people who already had one before Musk showed his ass to the whole world. It's like they need to put a disclaimer on a bumper sticker.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh he showed his ass long before the Twitter debacle you just had to look beyond the fake Tony Stark persona that had many people entranced

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should just break down, go full camp with it, and make it look like a Warthog from Halo. At least then it would have a gimmicky reason to purchase one.

Wonder how long it will take for body kits to come out for these things.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this thing is really happening huh?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Not really, no. From what I read the first shipments are kind of a stunt because they still haven’t worked out their production issues. They are having to do a lot of work on each vehicle by hand. Which means each unit is going to have costs like a Bentley but be expected to sell for the price of a Ford.

I really think this is a Potemkin delivery.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

So you don't own the thing you brought, you're going to be the biggest mug buying this

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Can I set up an LLC and use that company to buy the car? Then, collapse the LLC, and sell the car at a giant markup to whoever’s dumb enough to buy it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tesla is making it harder and harder to dare buy an electric vehicle.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, basically you can rent one of these pieces of shit for a whole year, for free, as long as you cover the gas and mileage fees? Cool cool. I personally wouldn't take one if you paid me to, but that seems like a good deal for some people who may want to take advantage.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

But if you resell it to some chump for enough money then that is just Tesla taking their cut of the resale.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They just keep giving me more and more reasons not to buy a vehicle from Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I recently saw my first Tesla Semi and also Tesla Truck in the wild. The semi was pretty cool but the truck looked like a toy or a prop and was smaller than I expected.

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