Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it

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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it::"They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it," Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

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If it weren't for Musk standing to make a profit from it and Tesla's history of questionable design decisions and quality issues, I'd potentially be interested in one. I like how it looks (although my aesthetic choices are certainly not everyone's cup of tea,) and the specs are pretty impressive if they manage to deliver on them.

There's a lot of hunger out there for more EV trucks, musk fanboys will gobble up anything he is involved in, and lots of people make questionable vehicle purchases, I think it will sadly sell just fine.

I predict it will flop harder than the Segway.

Wait, should I stop expecting the Segway to finally become the next big thing??

Here's to hoping Musk tries some extreme cyber trucking on a very high and dangerous cliff somewhere too.

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