For the record, no, unlike the DeLorean, the Cybertruck will not become a cult car. For the simple reason that Musk has sold too many of them. They only made fewer than 10,000 DeLoreans. When you make a shitty yet deceptively cool-looking lemon and sell a vanishingly small number of them, that's a mysterious exotic that people can fantasize about. When you make a shitty lemon and sell hundreds of thousands of them, what you've made is a shitty lemon that everyone has seen rusting in a driveway, barreling down the highway with a loose body panel, or gently attempting to full self drive itself directly over a child.
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Also, with that rusting problem, they're simply not going to last very long. I'd wager the vast majority will simply rust into unusable junk within a decade.
Yeah, the delorean had an actual clear coat so they didn't literally start rusting as soon as they rolled off the factory, and their status as a rare car made people take care of them. All the base model cybertrucks are going to be junk in a few years because you can't reasonably keep the body panels clean.
Plus, it's an EV. The batteries will go and Tesla will not replace them because by that time it'll be too embarrassing.
It also doesn't help that it is a truck versus a luxury vehicle/super car. People will want to do truck things with it which are activities involving mud, dirt, snow, salt, sand, you know, all the things that exacerbates rusting.
I think the proportion of cybertruck owners who take their cybertrucks off-road is going to be roughly the same as the proportion of DeLorean owners who take their DeLoreans off-road
someone should make a film about an incel serial killer who drives a cybertruck just to cement the opposite-of-cool reputation in the popular consciousness