The truck that was supposed to revolutionize everything is flopping fast.
The hype is dead. The Tesla Cybertruck, once billed as the future of electric vehicles, is now looking like a commercial bust.
In the second quarter of 2025, Tesla sold just 4,306 Cybertrucks, down a staggering 50.8% from the 8,755 units it delivered during the same period last year, according to new data from Kelley Blue Book. This plunge is a signal that America’s most hyped truck may already be out of gas.
“Wait a minute, Doc: are you telling me you built a time machine - out of a Cybertruck?!”
“The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car why not make it look ugly as fuck?”
I will forever point and laugh like Nelson at the morons who bought these Swastikar piles of shit.
But almost six years later, the truck’s surreal design, awkward size, high price, and late delivery have turned it into a niche curiosity, not a mass-market hit.
How the fuck do you write an article about the failed Cybertruck and not acknowledge Elon’s political bullshit impacting Tesla sales?!?
Dishonest shit.
Early reviews raised red flags over software glitches, poor fit and finish, and disappointing range for a vehicle of its size.
That’s the only sentence acknowledging the MANY mechanical failures, too.
The range was fine for a mall crawler. If it sold enough for Tesla to build that extended battery, it would have had by far the most towing range for those who need it.
I don’t think initial quality and range were a real problem. T was the delay, the looks, the price over what was announced. But definitely its fate was sealed by musks disastrous foray into politics
Eh. Even if Musk still had his Iron Man in real like image the cyber truck would still be a complete failure.
Saying it’s a shitty car and a failure by only looking at it as a car seems like good journalism. This isn’t a good product that failed because people don’t like Musk anymore.
Well yes, but if you want to explain why it flopped you devinetively have to mention Elon Musk Teslas sales overall dropped everywhere around the world by up to 50%.
around the world by up to 50%.
While doing a product change over of their best selling vehicle.
Sales are still down, almost certainly because of Musk, but it’s not as dire everywhere like that either.
E.g Spain where sales were bad and people like to cite a large number, was up 60.7% in June YoY. When you look at H2 2024 vs 2025, now it’s only down 0.9%. 2024 was already a low year, so being lower than 2024 isn’t good, but it’s not like a monthly number makes it look.
They are still down in nearly every market yes, but you trying to imply its 50% in so many places and things are dire would also be shoddy journalism not taking into account the change over.
The UK for example only started getting the new Y in June, lets see what the UK in Q3 looks like with a full quarter of Y deliveries. It’ll be down, but how much down.
Edit: Some clarity and other examples, but I also want to add, see how much more complicated an article can get rather than just focusing on the Cybertruck objectively on it’s own?
Edit: Also you can’t even buy the Standard Range RWD Model Y in all markets yet (~5k USD cheaper), but again, not that this alone will reverse the generalized sales decline induced by Musk.
Biggest takeaway; the media is still in denial.
The media is still
in denialreceiving money from the right.To be more generous, if you don’t have a legal team on your editorial staff in your section, just don’t mention the politics of billionaires.
Musk et al the 1%ers have lawyers on retainer whose only job is to litigate every mention of their name.
You can’t sue against truth though
you absolutely can. one might even say that’s the purpose of suing - to establish what is provably true
Driving a Cybercuck is a great way to tell society you’re the village idiot.
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That’s still too many.
it was never the future, it was only meant to hype of the stocks so he can get that 56bn payout in '23, it just took longer than expected.
Every time I see one I burst out laughing, they look so fucking stupid!
Cars in early PS1 games be like:
I feel like 4306 units sold in one quarter is still quite a lot all things considered.
And only 4,200 of them will have panels falling off by the end of next quarter
I am so surprised by the panels falling off; I thought Elmer’s glue was supposed to be pretty good.
They used the off brand Elmo’s glue
The market comparison is important. It outsold the EV Silverado by about 1000 and was outsold by the F150 EV by about 1000 units. The market cooled on all electric trucks, probably due to price and current economic conditions.
What I’m mostly concerned with is the fact that there’s still so many people who are aware of all the things going on with Musk and the immediate hatred all Cybertrucks receive and still choose to buy one.
That’s what I was hinting at when I said “all things considered”. For a car that’s so closely tied to fascism and that will get you shouted at and egged, 4000 units is still a lot.
I don’t know, that’s probably way below what supercar manufacturers sell, where exclusivity is part of the appeal of the brand.
Lamborghini sells about 10k (2.5/q) units per year, Ferrari about 14 (3.5/q). So that’s a bit more than either of them but of course those are way more expensive and exclusive.
I flip them off now. I’m doing my part!
Jeez, Tesla could have been such an interesting part of america’s success story (now China’s) if they just had leadership that was worth half a shit.
I wonder, when they hit 88 Mph, does on transport back in time to apartheid South Africa?
“We’re gonna see some serious shit. …Wait, this is a bit too serious.”
If they go faster than 60 the wheels fall off
It’s a fair question. The whole 88 mph thing from back to the future was a joke because no one thought a delorian could go that fast.
Pretty sure the joke was 88 is a common Nazi code. Eight letter in the alphabet is alphabet is ‘h’ - it’s “HH” which stands for the obvious.
14 is another one. When MyPillow had a sale for $14.88, there was a reason for it…
I doubt the BttF writers were making a Hitler reference
But I figured the OP in the comment chain was.
… By quoting the movie Back to the Future?
I think OP was making a BttF reference.
Yup. It was only a Bttf reference. Nothing sinister here. Just goofing on Cybertruck b/c well, they just deserve all the ridicule. No codetalk here. I promise.
They go from Zero to 1939 faster than one can ask Grok what time it is.
9:00am
Hey, Grok, what time is it?
NEIN
🤣
Its a modern day DMC DeLorean which ironically also had a raw stainless steel body. Hopefully it tanks the company just like the DeLorean did.
The DeLorean looked WAY cooler.
At least DeLorean went out for something cool: smuggling cocaine in the vehicles.
Delorean built his cars in Northern Ireland during the Troubles while also smuggling drugs to try to keep the company solvent, and he still managed to produce a better vehicle than Musk did. At least Delorean managed to pick a stainless steel alloy that was actually stainless!
DeLorean was not smuggling drugs to keep his company alive. As his company was tanking, he agreed to do a large drug deal, hoping to use the profits to keep the doors open a bit longer, but it turned out to be an entrapment scheme, and he was found not guilty.
He basically tried the same thing that the Reagan Administration did during the Iran-Contra Scandal, but he got caught because the people who talked him into it were cops. But the idea that the DeLorean company was fueled by drug money is wrong.
First of all, it’s stain less not stain never. Second of all, Musk would do all the drugs instead of smuggling them. Finally, the cybertruck as is an engineering failure and no amount of money can fix it.
You made all my points for me, only one note: I can properly fix a cybertruck for $20USD. maybe less what have petrol prices been doing lately
That’s not a good idea as cybertrucks have materials that can be pretty toxic when ignited. Also, I think you can induce thermal runaway on the battery less than $20 if using 87 octane.
It’s 301 stainless - the worst and cheapest stainless available. That crap rusts if you sneeze on it. It’s what you sell to people who don’t understand that there are different types of stainless steel.
The engineering was horrible down to material design and engineering. Different types of stainless have different applications. IIRC he announced that the same material used in SpaceX rockets would be used in the cybertruck - without considering if that’d be a good idea. Most people went crazy for it because SpaceX and did not consider that space ships and cars might require different formulations
Most people think of the thing in <thing>less like the tank in a tankless water heater, rather than like less sodium in reduced sodium soy sauce.
I don’t think the DeLorean reference is apt. That company was headed by a man who saw himself as a visionary, liked to highlight his middle initial “Z,” and had a drug addiction. No connection whatsoever.
Go Nazi Go Bust
