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Bruno Dias @bruno2/18/2024, 2:53 PM

1981: The DeLorean Motor Company releases its first and only product, the DMC DeLorean, a sports car notable for its striking stainless steel body panels. Due to poor fit and finish, high cost of production, and issues with rust, the DeLorean is a commercial failure and the company goes out of business.

1985: Because the DeLorean was a commercial flop, it's a weird and exotic car that gets used as the basis for the time machine in Back to the Future, making the car popular with nerds who have bad taste the world over

2019: Elon Musk, a gargantuan nerd whose life is one long and tiresome reenactment of Ready Player One, decides to make a giant midlife crisis truck with stainless steel body panels.

2023: The 'Cybertruck' starts rolling out to Tesla fanboys who pre-ordered it. Due to the stainless steel construction, it has poor fit and finish, is much more expensive than the competition, and has issues with rust.

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connor sheri shaw @Sheri2/18/2024, 3:24 PM

as a big fan of back to the future you are 100% correct about the taste thing. i love the delorean because it's a piece of shit.

if i had it my way they'd have used the pinto for the time machine instead. god i need to write about the pinto too that's one of the funniest car/american bullshit stories imo

Sciman101 @Sciman1012/18/2024, 4:09 PM

This got me curious, I looked it up and people have just painted their deloreans. I wonder who the first person to paint their cybertruck is gonna be.

Christian Simmers @Xuelder2/18/2024, 4:13 PM

What's so funny is that Elon Musk had the perfect opportunity to make a small truck: most blue collar workers and farmers are so desperate for a small frame truck and an electric truck would be able to fit in the EPA regs. This guy royally biffed a golden opportunity for ego, so par for the course.

The Pnictogen Wing @pnictogen-wing2/19/2024, 12:16 AM

the thing looks like it's useless for hauling anyway. my ancient 1995 Toyota short-bed could have held more (and it's still on the road). but I guess the vehicle exists out of pure spite: its earliest announcements provoked laughter so Musk has been trebling down ever since.

Christian Simmers @Xuelder2/19/2024, 12:56 AM

I had a Chevy s10 that I loved till the transmission blew. That thing had two wheel drive and was probably a more useful hauler than the cybertruck.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/18/2024, 4:18 PM

i figure if i buy one i can just set the destination of Full Self Driving to 2045 and go to the last remaining library in the United States and find out how they solved the rust problem

Christian Simmers @Xuelder2/18/2024, 4:23 PM

Do a Book of Eli but instead of a Bible it's a how to change oil for dummies book.

Great Joe @Great-Joe2/18/2024, 4:30 PM

Well hey, DMC also had to contend with 😒Thatcher😒. Tesla by comparison has been funded almost entirely by government subsidies and carbon credits.

fingerless @fingerless2/19/2024, 12:50 AM

iirc they got big tax write offs to put their factory on a sectarian fault line in belfast, in the hopes it might let them do something other than shoot each other. urban legend had it that they had separate entrances for catholics and protestants

Brisken @Brisken2/18/2024, 5:29 PM

So you're saying that the Tesla PSX model car is gonna be the car of choice in the inevitable remake/reboot of Back to the future.

Kate Barrett @thewaether2/18/2024, 9:32 PM

someone had better NOT make the cybertruck cool by putting it in a movie 4 years from now. that thing deserves to stay dead, as a lesson

Frank Hecker @hecker2/19/2024, 12:10 AM

No, It will probably end up in something like this: https://www.recoilweb.com/damnation-alley-landmaster-155970.html

@uppercasem2/19/2024, 12:19 AM

isn't stainless steels whole thing that it doesn't rust? I dunno I'm not an engineer

Bruno Dias @bruno2/19/2024, 12:23 AM

Stainless steel is rust resistant, not immune to rust; the stainless steel body panels on a cybertruck or a delorean will still rust when exposed to the elements. The delorean had a clear coat applied to it to protect the actual steel. On the cybertruck, the clear coat is a $5000 optional add-on. Either approach is for lots of reasons worse than a conventional body panel covered with paint.

@uppercasem2/19/2024, 12:29 AM

hah, the anti rust coating being an extra 5k is very on brand

fingerless @fingerless2/19/2024, 12:48 AM

you really are gonna want that truecoat

Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth2/19/2024, 6:23 PM

The DeLorean company also had a few issues with massive fraud, topped off with John DeLorean being arrested for smuggling cocaine. Has anybody checked what they're actually sending up in those SpaceX rockets?

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