• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    those chiseled trucks will start selling again

    No one’s buying those things ever. Maybe if dumb emerald boy managed to somehow recover his image from being a nazi the cars would sell again. But the trucks fucking suck shit on literally every metric. He produced the Homer and he’s gonna tank the company with it.

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      I live in rural Canada. It’s truck country. Like, every second vehicle. No one here would have been caught dead in a cyber truck BEFORE his shenanigans. I remember showing my family the concept photos and they reacted, poorly. There is no fucking way those sales go up.

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        I’m 100% certain that people who actually use trucks for their intended purpose were not the target demographic – it was rich kids who wanted a cool tech toy, while also playing dressup with the “labourer” aesthetic.

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          Yep. Monied tech bros from the bay area & etc was always the target demographic. It was never expected to sell to actual workers.

          Unfortunately it seems the overlap between nazis and tech bros wasn’t as high as he thought

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      I’m not sure why they haven’t started stripping these things for parts yet. I can’t imagine anyone at the company expects to move the current stock