Tesla Cybertruck appears to be facing significant sales challenges. After initial hype faded, and over a million reservations turned out to be as real as unicorns, Tesla is now enabling leasing options and free upgrades to move its inventory of the futuristic pickup truck. The company’s recent silence on the Cybertruck, even omitting it from their earnings call, speaks volumes about the situation.

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year. After working through the initial reservation backlog with fewer than 40,000 deliveries, the automaker is now struggling to sell the remaining vehicles.

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    Why isn’t the puny, petulant man-thing that runs the Nazicar Factory not suing us all for not buying them? That’s how you deal with advertisers who don’t wanna advertise with him so why not consumers who don’t want to consume?

    It’s the next stupid, asinine step.

    I hope anyone who ever admired this fuck face is deeply embarrassed. Or losing money.

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    All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

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    Well if they’d stop putting signage with “Arbeit Macht Frei” over the entrance to their factories maybe they’d do better.

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    Is that “all stops”, as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?

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    i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one

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    Tesla just needs a new slogan or a good marketing campaign.

    Something like:

    Tesla - power by joy

    Or “Kraft durch Freude” in German.

    All that would perfectly fit the brand image.

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    No thank you. I don’t want a swasticar.

    I’d love to have one of those new production old style beetles. But we can’t buy them here because our govt sucks donkey dick.

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      You mean this style of beetle? Nazi Germany unveiling of the new beetle 1930s

      I’m not defending cybertruck just wanted to point out the awkward history of WV

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        The massive, massive difference is that the VW Beetle wasn’t a shitbox for rich people. It’s okay to say that once in a great while. the Nazis, despite being horrific in most ways, did have an idea that wasn’t bad and this was that. The VW Beetle was an affordable car and if something went wrong with it, you could probably fix it yourself with only a small amount of automotive knowledge. You really don’t even need to give Hitler credit for that considering he basically just told Ferdinand Porsche to do all the hard work.

        Not so much the Cybertruck. It was Elon’s baby from the beginning and he took a very close personal interest in it.

        The Cybertruck is a bad idea. Even for rich people. It’s been demonstrated over and over again.

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      VW cars are built by Uyghurs, which, last I checked, are a surpassed minority in China, that has to work under slave-like conditions.

      But I guess most cars are produced like this.

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    10 hours ago

    Even if you ignore the politics it’s just a terrible car that is way too expensive. I’m honestly surprised it sold any units at all but I guess people just like vanity toys.