I feel this pain…I love my Ram but it doesn’t go into downtown DC unless there’s no other option haha.
Contrary opinion here.
I think it’s particularly cool looking and would love to have one. Biggest issue we would have is the problem of towing large gooseneck trailers with heavy equipment.
I beg to differ. We require a truck. You can’t move an excavator down the highway or haul hay without a decent sized gooseneck trailer. Hauling livestock even in a small trailer mandates a decent sized truck. Tools may be needed at either farm location and a truck is the easiest way to haul them back and forth.
Agreed, especially to those of us who have REAL Hummers the H1 is the only thing that qualifies as a Hummer.They are excellent vehicles. Ours is currently stored, we have a 4 door wagon, and again it can’t tow a gooseneck trailer but I love that truck. It was my primary vehicle to drive for a number of years. The H2 ruined the good name of the Hummer brand by creating a false skin over an inferior vehicle and trying to make them something they were never meant to be.
If Toyota made a 3/4 ton truck we would have preferred to get one but they don’t. 3/4 ton is the minimum for our needs. When our Dodge ram got killed in an accident we replaced it with a Chevy Silverado, it’s a nice truck and a bit easier to drive than the Dodge was not still not as easy as the Hummer.
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I think they look like a Jelly Bean going down the road! 
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Yeah it’s not a looker but it’s rugged in a Mad Max meets the future type of way. I doubt I’d personally spend the money but i’m not a big truck guy in the first place.
I really, really like the look of it and when they first announced it, harboured ideas of getting one,
Unfortunately Elon’s general terribleness as a person has driven me away from Tesla and Twitter. So I’ll have to look for something more conventional when I’m ready.
I like that Electric cars have led to companies starting again from scratch and making some interesting designs.
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I think you don’t count as “Regular people” in this case. Raising & moving livestock is a nearly perfect use-case for a truck, hence truck ads with burly men lifting bales of hay in & out of pickups.
Not to get too political*, but the problem with pickup trucks isn’t that they exist, it’s that they have become the most popular “car” in the USA and the vast majority of them are rarely, if ever, used as trucks, wasting of resources, killing the planet, and with the recent trend to taller trucks with bigger blind spots, also killing pedestrians, cyclists, and, (I assume), people in smaller cars.
So back to the cyber truck: It’s an interesting departure from “traditional” truck design. It looks like it will have much smaller blindspots than a modern full-size pickup on the front half of the vehicle, but those sidewalls along the box make me wonder about blind spots on the back half. Also, putting stuff in & out over the side will suck with those extra-high walls. Overall it seems like it’s not half bad, and it adds some variety to the market. The problem, (to get political* again), is that it seems impractical as a truck, so it’ll likely end up being used as an oversized car. I kind of hope it becomes a novelty that sells, we see a bit on the street, and then fizzles out and becomes something collectors or enthusiasts use.
*Are transportation issues considered political here? Or are they simply transportation & road safety issues, usually outside of the scope of discussion here, but this thread is about a vehicle.
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Like the DeLorean.
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It does have kind of a similar shape… is the Cybertruck just a grandaddy Delorian?
You are probably right, in many cases they don’t get used as trucks. However, as a suburbanite, I can tell you that I use it as a truck frequently:
- Moving the kids in and out of college dorms and between colleges
- Moving the kids from apartments to houses
- Taking the pressure washer and mower in for repairs
- Hauling landscaping stones, mulch, plants, seed, and fertilizer
- Picking up refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves, grills, cabinets, lumber, and more from local big-box stores like Home Depot and Lowe’s to the house
- Pulling people out of ditches (Yes, I’ve done that; reminds me of my farm days)—people need to slow down on icy, snowy roads!
- Towing my daughter’s car from one state to another while they drove the U-Hauls
- Taking stuff to Goodwill and Habitat for Humanity
- Tearing down an old, large play system in the backyard and hauling away two truck loads of wood
- And more….
I can’t speak for others, but there are plenty of non-farm, non-construction uses of a good pickup.
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We sold our truck a couple of years ago, and I miss it at least once a week for reasons like this.
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Haha, I just bought a 23 and yes, parking is an adventure.
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I’ve noticed that people don’t cut in front of me as much when I’m driving the truck compared to the SUV.
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Don’t get me started on the un-sustainability of suburbs 
That said, if a truck is being used as a truck, go for it, that’s why they exist! For someone in a phase of life where multiple kids have to be moved in & out of dorms every year, and landscaping, and more, then maybe it makes sense to have a truck.
For some other things, a cost/benefit analysis may be in order, and a surprising number of things can be done with a a surprisingly small vehicle:
Appliance delivery is amazing - it’s often free, and they do the carrying for you! It’s question of the right tool for the job - but by keeping an open mind that the tool may not be what society, (especially suburban North American society), expects we may find a lot of better alternatives.
To bring it back to Tech and complain about Apple, Apple isn’t immune to prioritizing a suburban, car-owning, lifestyle. I don’t own a car, but rent cars and use a car share service on a regular basis, and Apple’s per-vehicle CarPlay settings are a huge annoyance with cars. I wish I could create a default home screen, then allow further customization for particular vehicles. Imagine setting up custom CarPlay screens for all these vehicles:
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A while back, when I lived somewhere very different, I commuted in an '84 F-150 Supercab that had been in a few minor accidents. Nothing moves traffic out of the way like the sight of rusty, crooked bumper on a larger than normal vehicle!
But the mileage on an early 80s inline-6 was not good.
I don’t believe I could render much roadside assistance with that.
If I give up my truck, I’m going for this; I just have to convince my wife.
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I’m assuming you don’t have kids (forgive me if that is a wrong assumption). IF and when you do, I suspect you’ll need a car.
That is certainly is the truth! 
Nicer cars tend to stay out of the way. As to gas mileage, that is a big pain point when I fill up the truck. No fun.
Once again, You’re not crazy!
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I do have kids! And we “gave up” (by “gave up” I mean it was stolen and we decided not to replace it), our car a few months after the oldest was born, (11 years ago now). At the time we looked at what we were spending on the car, and decided that would pay for a lot of train/bus/subway tickets & car rentals.
I’m not going to pretend there haven’t been challenges, but we’re in Montreal, which has pretty good public transit, and until recently we lived a block from a subway station, (now it takes 12 minutes to walk to the subway at adult pace, a bit more if there’s a kid involved), and most of what we need is within walking distance, so overall the balance currently still tips towards no car is better. That said, I’ll probably run the numbers at the end of the year and see if owning a car would cut our costs, and if that’s the case we will have to decide how much we want to avoid digging a car out of snowbanks in the winter.
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That looks like fun! Year’s ago, I hired a senior leader who was from Canada. He said Canada was just too cold for him.
As to cars and snow, I’ve read that Subarus are great in general, and especially in adverse driving conditions. Of course, they can’t (yet) dig themselves out of snow banks. I almost bought an Outback but ultimately decided on an Acura instead.