I love people explaining why they love a vehicle that looks like it was designed by a ten year old! I use a truck daily and that is the most unusable truck ever made.
@@TimmyInTarky It's because the buttons can be felt with your hands without losing sight of the road, it's a big security feature, and I'm glad the EU has some good legislators
An african american promoting a car from a company owned by a guy who has publicly shown support for white supermacist "white man replacement theory" is the definition of bs crazy.
@@seasikberry7120 Good for everyone that Tesla dont just have screen to controll then...use the sound controll, there is over 100 commands and i guess there is like max 10 you use at regular basic.
I love how the Cybertruck is billed as the "apocalypse ready vehicle" that has bad range, bad build quality, and rusts in light rain.... And the Hilux has been around for decades and put up with the worst abuses ever thrown at a car.
@@ericaschner3283 I would really struggle to own anything else. I have a nissan inbound from Japan currently and even that I think will be an eye openered compared to the kaizan approach of toyota (improve and refactor, improve and refactor, which is why they are so incredibly well build and also reliable and simple). I genuinely do not think I could every own a Tesla for the shear fact that they are simply badly built (forgetting the fact they have no soul, but that's more subjective lol)
Nissan has been garbage since the Renault thing in 2001. Sad, I was a Nissan kid and loved all their sports cars. I’m a Toyota fan now, just a 2012 highlander limited with 230,000 miles and everything on it works, the light for the gear shifter indicator went out though, so I’ll add $2 into my maintenance expenses 😂
@@BySixaIs the Landcruiser 70 series available where you live? That thing has legendary reliability (probably due to how basic it is). It's the go-to vehicle for the Australian outback and farms, where it's expected to travel hundreds of thousands of kilometres throughout its life in the middle of absolutely nowhere. It's so popular that the new model has a waiting time of up to 24 months.
One thing that stood out when opening the door is that the easy way to open it requires you to grab weather stripping. I can’t see that lasting long and creating tones of wind noise. Among all the over minimalist stuff like climate controls harder to find/use, the horrible blind spots and wiper. Minimalist doesn’t mean better
their competition with all the bells and whistles loose money on every sale. Better to cut out less important features and be able to stay in business.
Part of cutting cost is not simple material cost, it's development. For example putting a rear camera feed onto the rear view mirror... If you work through every bit of custom electronics and software added, it's more engineering that adds up as you capture every bell and whistle that real modern cars have
You don’t mess with geese. They are aggressive birds. I once was got chased out of a park by a family of geese. they kept following me around and honking at me.
@@tulsikanodia8603 I was waiting for some actual criticism. I haven't seen a lot from him, but in the videos I've watched, I've gotten the impression that he's usually pretty honest when there's something he doesn't like. This seemed very mild in comparison
so i dont mind the cybertruck aesthetics at all… i love the truck delorean look. and taste is in the eye of the beholder. what i do mind is how cheap everything looks for a luxury vehicle. if i buy an expensive car i want expensive car things. i want my panels to match. i dont want them to have spared expense on a 20$ led display. i dont want them to have neglected to test how real people would open the car and fingerprints would form or how expensive bespoke wipers dont work well on rain. i dont want a car that cant be bothered to ship me a hubcap on release. like some of it is the perils of a low vin number car… but most of it is cutting corners when the consumer is a spared no expense person…. im a spare no expense consumer for large purchases. get it right in the quality of life stuff. dont skimp on 100$ when i paid 100k.
Thats why it is shaped this way. Not for a spacy look - it is just extremely cheap to use straight metal sheets instead of giving it a detailed, curved surface. But it is still a very expensive car, just because everything is done over the touch screen - even the glove box.
Someone likely broke the door after delivery Edit: Elon confirmed on X that 15 Cybertrucks are affected by this, it is a door latch that have not been properly fastened from factory. It comes loose after driving so there would be no problem at the service center. THIS IS NOT A PANEL GAP 🤷♂️
Tesla has you make note of defects and then you schedule a trip to the service center after delivery. So they either haven't scheduled it, accepted it as is, or it broke after delivery.
I'm glad some countries are making physical buttons and nobs mandatory for certain functions. Screens are dangerous when you have to look away from the road.
Australia and Europe ( ancap and ncap). Key functions will need to be physical controls to get a 5 star safety rating. These include indicators, hazard lights, horns, warning lights, windscreen wipers, and emergency 'SOS' features.
@@--SPQR--It took tesla over a year to not fix the rear lights on my model S filling with water whenever it rained. in the end I just gave up. I wish that had been the only problem with it but it was by far the worst car I've owned since I was driving around shitboxes as a kid and it was worse than quite a few of those.
The year is 2027. I'm careening down a hill and my brakes give out. I can see someone about to cross the street up ahead. I tell my virtual assistant to honk my horn. No response, there is no reception in the area. No biggie, I fire up the touch screen. Swipe away the software update, I can get to that later. Scroll down the menu and hit the 'honk' button. A short delay but functions perfectly. 10/10. Hats off to the developers Edit: This is meant to be a joke. I understand there is a horn on the steering wheel. It pokes fun at how so many things are moving to the touchscreen. I don't expect them to actually move the honk button to the media screen in 2027 unless they are actually insane.
The funniest joke about this monstrosity is the people who paid so much for so little. This is a huge exercise in mental gymnastics on how to justify the sheer embarrassment of being stuck with it.
I like how in the basics category, about 1000 miles with the vehicle, and the door is already discolored to a black color where you open and shut the door simply by touching the door. On top of not even being properly fitted together. Truly, a truck of all times.
well, remember the DeLorean? was made using stainless too and they had to put on a clear coat when people started complaining about getting stains on the stainless outer hull. same here, one thinks.
@@wolfhalupka8992yea but elon musk knows more about manafacturing than anyone on the planet! so how come he couldn’t predict that untreated stainless steel is a fucking terrible idea
This vehicle, as a concept, has taught me to be grateful for the big auto manufacturers and how much R&D is present in their vehicles. When someone buys a Toyota or a Ford, they don't have to worry about which parts of their vehicle design was intentional and which parts were "that would be cool" features.
not trying to defend the "philosophy" behind tesla (or any other thing controlled by elon), but car-designs are full of things that are meant to engage with our senses of asthetics, e.g. the smell, the sound of closing the doors. not saying this is analogous to every single thing tesla would call a "cool feature" of the cybertruck, but i think its worth mentioning.
To be clear, I'm not saying manufacturers like Ford or Toyota don't have their own flaws, but they've had a lot of time and money into working out the kinks. Tesla is still new in the grand scheme of things and to that end, of course they'll still have a lot of issues to work out. I imagine their production models in 10, 20, 30 years from now will be much, much better in build quality, but my criticism is more in regards to the novelty baked into the Cyber truck, things like choosing a touch screen for every interior function. Touch screens are nice, sure, but are we only doing it because "future = touch screen", or does it actually improve the ergonomic functionality for the driver? I think not, and in fact it detracts from the driver being able to make quick adjustments without taking their eyes off the road. With analog knobs and buttons, there's a potential for building muscle memory to a point where the driver can interact with the controls without ever giving it a second thought. With a touch screen, it's not impossible but significantly less intuitive. I'm not even a car person, this was just a criticism I had of the cybertruck mostly but generally Tesla as a whole.
Agreed. The lights alone aren't aimed towards the road to limit the lights being blasted into people's faces. At its size, that thing is blinding literally everyone on the road. And did you see the drivers field of view from inside of that thing? That is definitely one of the worst I've seen.
I agree....although, I do have a visceral hatred towards it's appearance, as well. I hoped that I might hate it a little less once I saw it in person...but, no - it is even more repulsive. I don't care to share the road with Elon's vanity project.
It's almost enough to make me wish they were legal in my country because I would drain that everywhere I saw it as would many people now they know that. Dudes who got one of these need "I'm a d-head" tattooed on their forehead.
elon so smart he gives all of us peons a new feature called removing the spare tire. "just get rid of it, none of my rich friends have ever needed one of these before, who has ever had to change a tire? i'm seriously so smart."
I mean.. People buy and love their Ferraris and Aston Martins. They're not very well build, but they are full of emotion and that's why you buy them. So is Tesla. It's not the build quality, the materials or the materials, but it's all about the gimmick. About the car that was drawn by a child, but that will give you childlike joy.
@@EUCKid I don't know. But if you have som much money to spend, than sometimes you want to be extra with it. You could easily buy a german engineered car like an Audi S8, BMW M8, a C63 AMG or a 911 GTS, and those cars are well build, great quality, but it sometimes lacks the extravagance. It lacks the x factor, the je ne sais qoui, that comes with the other "imperfect" brands. People love a good Rolex yet it is totally acceptable that it doesn't have the most precise clockwork out there. You could get a better product with a good old G-Shock, but it's not what most people look for. And Tesla has beclem such a brand that has its crazy fellowship that would defend it to death, just like Apple to name another american overhyped brand. In the end, it's just important to know what you're in for. If I buy Ducati than I will get one of the best looking, good sounding and great performing bikes in the world, that cpuld potentially break if I sneeze to hard on it. You can go with a more reliable and cheaper Honda, but where is the fun in that.
Stainless steel, why it is bad: 1. Expensive 2. Heavy 3. Stiff 4. Hard to work with 5. Tarnishes over time The only things I liked are the back tires and the steering. I hope other car manufactures copy these two things.
Anyone that would drop a 100K for something like this isn't going to care about quality. They want to be the first in their neighborhood to have one. Tesla doesn't care because they know those people will buy it anyway and they are right.
FFS that’s NOT a “panel gap”. Talk about ignorance!! It’s simply a door catch that needs adjusting- a job than anyone can do in a minute or two with the most basic of tools.
It looks like to sell this in Europe they would have to make a large number of pedestrian safety changes to the design. 3:31 I can imagine the front of that wheel arch amputating a limb during a side swipe.
Seems like in the US nobody cares about pedestrians. What matters is just looks and the fear instilling factor. Never felt like Musk seemed too concerned about all the Autopilot (?) induced dead bodies in the past.
The car is officially not allowed to be sold in Europe as it meets essentially none of the safety criteria. Even if it did, the massive hulking size probably means there are virtually almost no roads outside of highways where you'll even want to drive it.
I just hope it will never be allowed on the road as it is now here in the Netherlands. Not because I'm hating on the car, all things considered it's not for me even if I could afford it, but I can totally get someone loving it. We're a small country with many, many cyclists and pedestrians, narrow roads and a lot of these roads have cleverly shared space for pedestrians, cyclists and cars. It would be an accident waiting to happen on our roads TBH.
Ironically Edsels actually have better build quality than this steel box! It was really the 57 recession and that godawful grill that killed the Edsel.
@@donkanis6141Maybe you should check out elons history from any source besides elon. Maybe start by learning what companies he founded (none, except for the solar city scam w his brother). Or go watch one of the 100s of interviews he's given claiming we are going to be refueling on X planet, and taking family vacations to visit planets Y and Z. Physics and common sense make these claims impossible. The man he was going to put in Mars in 2021? Or the armada of 100x spacecrafts carrying 10-100 crew? Oh, dont forget the helper robot that he hyped and pumped the stock for 2 years about before bringing out a dude in a suit to dance. Space X rocket is literally incompatible with life. As in math, physics say so... ya know, stuff engineers worry about while Elon mops up credit and deflects any responsibility. He's never founded anything, certainly not tesla. He's not an engineer. He's not responsible for anything, but a handful of exceptionally dumb modifications for aesthetic reasons that ended up jacking the manufacturing costs up and often being objectively worse functionally. Then he goes out and runs his mouth promising misleading tech/features that sometimes the engineers are able to make happen, and other times (full self driving) charging for features thatll never exist. Some would say fraudulently manipulates tesla stock prices, but as long as bankers are making $ along the way he won't be held accountable.
I’m by no means a car guy or a huge tech guy but when he said it’s “fine” multiple times about that car that’s a bummer cause for the amount it costs for it, fine shouldn’t be acceptable it’s should be incredible! That’s no shots at Marques in anyway, it’s a shot at Tesla for putting out an incomplete product and being fine with it especially for the cost. Great video man!!
@@TherapyGel exactly!! It’s like what they do with video games now. They put out an incomplete product charge u $70, and first thing when u put the game in is a huge update and even then sometimes it’s still unplayable!
I'm sorry but, with every negative thing you say, you always seem to try and downplay it. - "People complain about panel gaps, but I don't care about them and this is literally the worst one I've seen" - "Yes, it doesn't have the wheel caps yet, but we will get them in the future." - "There is a little bit of rust inside the rim, but it's the only place I've seen rust" The amount of times you say "negative thing x", only to follow it up with "but in the future", "but it doesn't bother me personally" and the likes is honestly pretty bad. It's no secret to most of your followers, that you're kind of biased towards Tesla, but I really wonder if that bias won't eventually damage your credibility as a reviewer, at least in the car spectrum
wow, people receive words very differently, what I get from viewing those point you mentioned in the video and feeling the tone Is "I paid for all these shit that I didn't get it with the truck I receive, and "allegedly" will get in the future with a high level of doubt" and the panel gaps point, didn't that make the point especially bad, opposite of downplaying it? it's "even a guy who normally don't mind panel gaps can't stand the gaping gap of the cyber truck door"
Looks like the physical equivalent of the gaming world is with us. You buy your car in a half built state and the DLC (“door level calibration”) gets you the finished product.
Over the air updates are essentially a scam. They let manufactures ship products with missing features on the promise of adding them later, which they may or may not.
The fact that they decided to put a gaming PC in the center but no dashboard or HUD in front of the driver tells you everything you need to know about this company's priorities when building anything.
"You just have to expect that if you get an early VIN you will have to deal with bad quality control" feels like such a cop out. Don't defend companies that can't bother to do proper quality control for a vehicle that costs 100 grand
When you mentioned that most people would use this like an SUV, it made me think of my 2017 Volvo XC90 Excellence plug-in hybrid. I got it for less than the base price Cybertruck. 4 seater with front and rear heated/cooled/massaging captain's chairs. Nice, big functional center display without sacrificing all the tactile controls. AWD with adjustable suspension that climbs Colorado mountains in winter like a goat. And I've towed 5,000 lbs on multiple occasions. So congratulations Elon on delivering in 2024 what I've essentially had for 7 years. Oh, your "truck" is full electric and has a big honking wiper. So you have that.
The rust on the wheel hub is the same rust any vehicle with an exposed hub will have. Often before they even leave the dealer. Usually it is covered by the hun cap or center cap bit ot os still there.
Man you are exactly right. Almost everyone buys a truck just too look cool, not to do any actual truck stuff. All these new pick ups have a 4 food bed, that's useless for actual work.
All those finger prints (if that is what they are) along the edges of the doors look awful. A stainless steel finish sounds great, but in practice I think it's going to be a constant battle to keep it looking good. Also, I believe that if you don't keep it clear of corrosive things like bird droppings, it can leave marks which are very difficult to remove. Clear coat has its advantages.
I was not prepared for how bad the fingerprints were going to be. Makes sense to anyone who has owned a stainless steel fridge, but it indeed affects the side view.
I saw another one on the road and it was even worse than this one. Stainless steal is famously impossible to keep clean, so these trucks will all look filthy unless they’re cleaned militantly.
The metal has no protective coating on it, because Elon Musk is a complete idiot. Using the car under any conditions will stain the metal. You can't even wash it like a normal car, because it will stain. Pure garbage.
I will stick to my old land rover, can tow a small excavator, will do 1000 km on full tank, wipers are super cheap and easy to replace battery. Oh and after 24 years it's still rust free on the body as it's aluminium. Decent review though and I wish you years and years of fun with it!
I worked in a Vauxhall van plant for a year. If ANYONE let a van go with a panel gap like that, the whole line would of probably been fired. Thats shocking
I live about a hour from Austin and have seen 3 CTs on the road and over a dozen parked around the city. Never have I seen a panel gap like that. Part of me wants to close that door to see for myself, tho.
In Germany it would be a complete shutdown of the whole production line until it is fixed. The lack of the QM is really frightening. Where else do they accept compromises? Well not that the whole concept of this car would ever even be considered road safe anywhere in the EU.
Drove one of these. The squeeks and rattles in a 100k vehicle are laughable. But i couldn't laugh in front of the owner in case he leaves me on the roadside😂
My Model Y had a few quality issues as well. Not too bad. To be fair every new car I’ve owned has quality issues. My Pontiac was horrible. My Ford was poor. My new Jetta had issues as well.
@@erichannes6392 come on no german car looks like that.. we dont drive jetta where im from, those models are for the american marked... it looks like a german car that have been in a accident the only time i have seen something that was ot aligned and had gaps like this, is when cars gets in a crash even old russian cars and east block cars ar better put together i drive vw and yes i got a new screen in mine, but i could not spot the problem.. vw just told be there was a pixel fault in some of them, when the car was at service i can sell my vw for the price i gave for it, no way cybertruck owners will get that experince, when they have driven the car for some years 1 year ago i could have sold it for more the i paid for it, because vw stopped production of that model
@@arconium2571mmmm yes it’s just fine. My truck with a small bed, now has no bed as I want to drive a decent distance and not be fucked if I get a flat.
From someone with 20 years in transportation, 95% of people never touch the spare they just call a tow truck. The battery isn't needed because truck don't have as much daily mileage. Take much less time to charge than fill up a traditional tank.
4:07 Whoever mounted those tires didn't even try 🤣 For those who might not know, that red dot on the tire marks the heaviest spot and it is supposed to be lined up with the valve stem as that is the lightest spot on the rim. When the high spot is almost 180 degrees out like that it takes way more weight to balance. The large amount of stick on weights can actually be seen just above the valve stem.
I just love the little touches that show you how little Tesla cares. Like the fact that you're spending nearly $100k on this thing and they couldn't be bothered to wire up another $30 screen to put the rear view in the correct place.
"you how little Tesla cares" - Teslas are the most safe veichles on the road and every time they aim to the highest score in tests. They don't care what is the minimal bar to be ok on the road. they always aim to the max. that's what they care about
@@carloorelli3538 That's a particularly hilarious comment considering the cybertruck isn't even road legal in the EU because of how UNsafe it is. For pedestrians it's a death machine and for passengers it's a death box as there's basically no crumple zones.
“Steer by wire” is a thing familiar in aviation, but under the name “fly by wire”, which is that the flight controls are connected to a computer which then do the work (this has many advantages), and has been a thing since 1987 when Airbus launched the first commercial aircraft to fly with 100% FBW technology, the A320. So it’s not a new concept at all, and found it funny how they reinterpreted the name.
My Rivian is amazing. I was 1200 in line for a CT, but there is no way I would take on this thing. What this could have been with all that tech etc... What it actually is :(
Hearing that full self driving beta is not available/compatible is a relief. We really don't need a rigid frame vehicle covered in stainless steel death panels making dangerous maneuvers on the road and causing fatal accidents. It shouldn't see self driving until the feature is out of beta (if ever).
Not being able to easily smash the windows in the event of a crash is alarming. It will never be allowed to sell in the UK , Due to the sharp angles and the lack of a crumple zone. The body suffers from staining and some people have found rusting at various points. Having everything done by the screen for me is distracting and dangerous But it does look great .
Kudos! I want to complement you on your thorough description. I really enjoyed your opinions and references to other competitors as well. I especially liked how you differentiated the "truck things" vs "it's a large SUV" - I personally agree with you that most of the people interested in EV trucks will use them like large SUVs.
I think its why MKB chose this CyberTruck instead of his. His "Beast" version was above average, but he wanted to showcase the lemons. On the plus side, Tesla service comes to you and eventually the fitment issues get worked out as production increases. Model S,X,3,Y all have problems for the first year of production.
Can't be sold in Australia because it's too dangerous for other road users. Also we have enough distractions for single guys to use for impressing other single guys.
I've seen a lot of Cybertruck reviews by now and what stands out to me is that Tesla had an idea, with a specific design, which they stubbornly stuck with regardless of all the practical obstacles they encountered during development. Things we take for granted in other cars like efficiency of windshield wipers, the need for physical buttons and a freaking door handle. Or even the shape of the front. That vertical, huge flat slab of metal on the front of the Cybertruck is gonna have a lot of small dents from road pebbles.
It’s not that Tesla and its talented engineers had an idea, but that Elon had an idea and even the best efforts of the engineers to make it work left gaping compromises that couldn’t be smoothed over
It's not been a moth that a freaking billionaire drowned inside a Tesla that went into 6ft of water As soon as the eletronics in that car died she was inside a metal coffin In no serious country that would fly A billionaire died for fucks sake, that's the only class of people the US seems to care about
i think its anout time that a side light turns on, like a white LED array, whenever you activate the turning signal, it maybe turning on on the direction you're turning or both.. to help you see, the road or the condition of the road where you're turning.. it really helps, specially at total darkness conditions.. this is very useful to large vehicles like the cybertruck or F150 lightning.. gets you aware of the situation of the surrounding where you're turning...
So what my takeaway is from this: - rusty tires - panel gaps (broken drivers' door) - loves fingerprints - If you want an extra battery and a spear tire, you lose almost all storage space. - Useless windshield wiper - Everything has to be controlled on one screen, which is complicated and dangerous. - tiny steering wheel. - bad visibility - Useless rearview mirror - useless sunshades (sun shines over them) - It can cut your fingers off. - but looks cool
@@o00nemesis00o The steering wheels is not a Tesla invention, but German cars. In Europe, almost all the 3 drive train 19 tones trucks and half of semi-trucks and some trailers also are equipped with steering wheels. Actually, Tesla didn’t create anything new on a car.
“The truck itself is a bit of a celebrity”!🤣 The serious look on Marques’s face when he said that, it’s almost like the cyber truck is a spoiled rich kid and Marques is trying to talk quietly so the truck doesn’t hear him!😂
Unfortunately this wouldn’t be allowed in UK/Europe due to safety concerns. Too many sharp edges no give on the bonnet or hood, plus it won’t fit in our tiny roads
@@tubadukIt shouldn't be legal in the US either, but here we are. Elon might be paying off or bribing NHTSA. They are already suspected of being super corrupt during the Trump admin. Which is why new truck generations are completely breaking safety design laws with their massive grills that would kill children and peds easily.
Great review, probably the best I've seen so far for the Cybertruck. I've experienced the head turning effect from my first BMW i3, back when they were brand new, and then my Model X. I'm always happy to show it to people who are interested (which is pretty much everyone). I do hope they can build a right hand drive version for us in the UK though, otherwise car parks and drive-thru restaurants will be hard work. We're getting a preview in the tomorrow in London. I just need to convince my wife that this is the "camper van" we should be buying instead of an ID Buzz.
Marques driving his 911 now understands build quality vs tech! Appreciate the candid reviews and having a well rounded opinion when you spend $100k+ on a vehicle
Ah, the Tesla Truck, the pinnacle of vehicular innovation, where you pay a premium to embark on a futuristic journey akin to buying a high-end smartphone but with the features of a flip phone. It's like acquiring a deluxe, overpriced electric paperweight on wheels. You get the unique opportunity to experience all the drawbacks of electric vehicle ownership, combined with the quality you'd expect from a budget ride at best. Basic features? Oh, those are for the weak. Who needs functionality when you can bask in the glow of trendy inadequacy, right? In essence, buying a Tesla Truck is making a declaration. A declaration that you value the image of innovation over actual utility, that you're willing to ignore the glaring deficiencies for the sake of being part of a "movement", one that's less about automotive excellence, and more about flaunting a badge of modernity.
Got to love a review on a truck without ever mentioning a single thing that would make it useable as a truck. Owners of electric trucks usually have not owned trucks before and it shows. And I love when he praised the 240V port because you can charge another car and then immediately transitions to how terrible the battery range is. 😂 Who's going to charge you?
He specifically mentioned how Truck owners dont really do Truck things and how the Cybertruck uses that knowledge of the market by not actually being excellent for "trucky" activities. Are you really that bad at paying attention? If people buy trucks because they want to compensate for small genitals, rather than for wanting to do "trucky" things, thats not Teslas fault.
Lets be fair there are some practical electric trucks like rivian though theyre expensive. I think elon and his aesthetics designers are just morons and so are their customers.
So what Tesla has produced is a pickup that's bad at being a pickup. That bed is already small and weirdly shaped, and if you want to have a spare tire - which is definitely something a pickup should have - you have to give up part of the load capacity, and if you want to have the kind of range an internal combustion pickup can have thanks to the giant fuel tanks you can fit in one, you have to give up even more of the bed. On top of that, because it's an electric truck, it loses way more range if you hook up a trailer than you do with an IC engine; this is something all EVs suffer from, because physics, but it's still a strike against it. On top of that, you have all the Tesla design quirks that make them so awful to drive, like the utter lack of an instrument cluster or stalks on the steering column, so instead you have to look even further from the road to see even how fast you're going or how much charge you have left, and you have to navigate menus on a touchscreen to do anything.
I'm a retired farmer. Your assessment is correct. It's a toy for the wealthy, which is cool, but not a practical tool for those who need a truck in rural areas.
