Looks like something out of an Atari 2600 resolution game.

Car and Driver article with more pictures, it gets worse...

https://www.caranddriver.com/n...p-truck-photos-info/

The comments from the crowd are fantastic:

Musk - "we'll start off with the size, the dimensions and the inspiration"

Guy in the crowd yells - "Tie Fighter!?"

They never showed the Bed.
I wouldn't rule it out.

Musk is a kook but Car and Driver is thinking the same thing as me. I really think this is nothing more than a prank or marketing ploy.

Yeah, that has to be some kind of joke...right?

Taking orders now... and they’re already 2000 units behind with an estimated delivery date of a year+...
Musk is like a carnival huckster. Is it wasn’t for federal subsidy money and $502 million owed to bank lenders, there’d be no Falcon Heavy or electric car production.

The 1980's called. They want their video drivers back.

Come on Elon, pickup truck design ain't rocket science.

That’s the car every little boy draws when he’s 8 years old.

Dammit. Why don’t people realize that just because it’s an EV it doesn’t have to be so ugly it makes the Pontiac Aztec look good!? Terrible styling, truly awful.

Intentionally awful styling won’t work. Do better next time.

Looks like something Bubba made in his backyard with his hand operated sheet metal bender.

He's the Francisco D'Anconia of this reality.

Kind of resembles what I would imagine a truck by DeLorean might look like if they ever pulled that trigger.

Ignoring the ugly truck syndrome, if it's range was 500 miles while towing it could be the ticket for a lot of RVers. We usually go about 450 miles a day and RV campgrounds have some infrastructure already in place that could be adaptable to charging.

https://nypost.com/2019/11/22/...ndow-test-is-a-bust/

Elon Musk was left dumbfounded Thursday night during a botched test of the Tesla’s first “bulletproof” electric pickup truck that left its windows smashed up.

The red-faced Tesla CEO tried to show off the durability of the Cybertruck’s “armor glass” windows by having chief designer Franz von Holzhausen throw a metal ball at them.

But the glass cracked, drawing groans from the crowd gathered in Los Angeles for the “Blade Runner”-inspired vehicle’s unveiling.

“Oh my f—ing God,” Musk muttered onstage. “Well, maybe that was a little too hard.”

The flap came minutes after Musk claimed the Cybertruck’s hard-edged body is “literally bulletproof” to a 9mm handgun.

“We threw wrenches, we threw everything — we even literally threw the kitchen sink at the glass and it didn’t break,” Musk said. “For a little weird reason it broke now. I don’t know why.”

Musk took the mishap in stride, noting that the ball didn’t go through the window.

“Room for improvement,” he quipped.

A panel of the window glass survived another onstage test in which a metal ball was dropped on it from above.

The futuristic truck is made from the same “ultra-hard” stainless steel alloy that will be used in the SpaceX Starship rocket, Musk said. While he didn’t shoot the truck onstage, Musk did have von Holzhausen smack it with a sledgehammer.

“When you say something’s built tough, that’s what we mean,” Musk said in a subtle dig at Ford, a major player in the pickup truck market.

The materials aren’t all that’s unconventional about the Cybertruck. It has an angular design that Musk said was influenced by the 1977 James Bond movie “The Spy Who Loved Me,” as well as “Blade Runner.”

The Tesla founder claimed on Twitter that it will be the “official truck of Mars.”

Tesla will offer three Cybertruck models starting at $39,900 with production expected to start in late 2021. The $69,900 high-end model of the truck will come with a battery range of more than 500 miles and more than 14,000 pounds of towing capacity, according to Tesla.

This is a joke, right?

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
It works....

No side mirrors..

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Originally posted by downtownv:
They never showed the bed.

With a ramp to ride your TRONcycle into the back.

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Originally posted by fpuhan:
This is a joke, right?

To be totally honest, my initial reaction was just that. I thought man, Musk must be getting a kick out of this. There's a small part of me that still thinks it might be.

If not, I don't even know what to say. This is just so bad. They are truly stuck in their eco-bubble if they think that potential truck buyers in this country would ever consider that thing. It looks like the invention of a high school shop class.

If this is real, I am wondering if they made it look like that for manufacturing purposes perhaps. I know they have struggled in that area with their other models. Perhaps this is the result? Who knows. Good God.