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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Correction. They are worthless. lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

yeah, if nobody wants them, then they are worth 0 dollars net

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I think its crazy that they made $800 mil worth of these cars. Who the hell thought they would sell well?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I always thought he was making them as a limited high-end run. It's neither of those things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Oh its gonna be limited thats for sure. But yeah I had very similar thoughts as well. Theres one cyberfuck in my town and every time I see it I can’t help but think what a fucking goober one must be to buy it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

That's 80,000 vehicles. The production capacity is 250k. Ford sold 460,000 F-150s last year.

Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they've ran through that by March.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Time to play…”WHO DO YA BAIL OUT! HUBBA-HUBBA-HUBBA, MONEY-MONEY-MONEY…WHO DO YA BAIL OOOOOUUUUUUUUT?!”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Elon underestimated how willing people were to buy a truck from a nazi.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

How abut: The truck is just plain ugly.

It looks like a refuse bin. Square back, low opening front.

When I worked in a lime quarry, we used a bin something like that shape to put all the crap and garbage in The a-frame had a bar across the top and the kiln truck picked it up worth its hoist and loaded it on the back, and hauled away the load to the dump.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh no... anyway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You hate to see it, whomp whomp

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

I actually don't hate to see it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

$800 million worth is giving a lot of value to something they can barely give away. Maybe $800K worth of material after the cost of dismantling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

The $800m figure is only useful for figuring out how much Tesla was expecting to make out of it. When you factor in the development and manufacturing costs, they're hemorrhaging money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, a better number would be how much it cost to build the fuckers. I'm assuming they also need ongoing maintenance while they sit around rusting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

There's a reason just in time manufacturing took over the world. Storage is expensive.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago

They really should use the number of units. If Musk cranks the price from 80k to 120k, they suddenly have $1.2B sitting there? It's the same 10,000 ugly-ass pieces of shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

If he drops the price to about $8k and includes lifetime fast charging, I'd consider one. Of course, for $8k, there are plenty of much nicer used trucks available on the market, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Idunno, they seem like they'd be perpetual rotten fruit magnets. Like you'd have to hose them down a lot

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Hosing it down would just accelerate the rusting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

They get you coming and going!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

And they actually have truck functions that trucks should have. And they aren’t completely useless if the iPad in the cab decides to not work

[–] [email protected] 80 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

If nobody wants them... they are not worth that amount. simple economics.

supply and demand...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

This is exactly right. They're worthless if nobody is willing to pay what's being asked.

So what they're "worth" is nothing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

I know i would get made fun of for this but a good price is a good price. I would pay $15,000 for one. I think most people would.

Edit 2 min later - I thought better of it. No i still wouldn't want it. I wouldn't trust Tesla not to hack it at some point and take it over.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You could rip the batteries out of them and use them for a solar setup. The rest could be sold for scrap.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

$15000 is rookie numbers.

I can offer $150 for one!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

I would pay $15,000 for one.

I would pay $15k for a better vehicle. I'm not getting in The Truck That Kills You Instantly.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Strip out the bad stuff and drop them in the ocean and they can become reefs for fishies and their buddies?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Strip out the bad stuff

What's left after that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

The reef is made of negative space

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

I would take a few of the batteries. For free of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Hell yeah if I could get a free cybertruck I'd have lots of fun salvaging the motors, batteries, sensors, etc.!

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Boom, tardigraded!

[–] [email protected] 68 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

"$800m"… If nobody wants them, they're not worth anything.

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