CyberTruck Is the Biggest Auto Industry Flop in Decades

Thursday, April 03, 2025

The list of famous auto industry flops is long and storied, topped by stinkers like Ford's Edsel and exploding Pinto and General Motors's unsightly Pontiac Aztek crossover SUV.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 05:30 PM | 36 COMMENTS | permalink

"He fell apart in Wisconsin like a human Cybertruck."

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-- The Borowitz Report (@borowitzreport.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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'Cybertruckin' got my bitcoins cashed in
Keep truckin', like the doo-dah man
Together, more or less in line
Just keep truckin' on'

(apologies to the Grateful Dead)

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-03 03:22 PM

Who the eff is the doo dah man though.
I'm not Boomer enough to know that one.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-03 03:43 PM

Originally something to do with Camptown Races (before my time) and or drug dealers.

Popularized again by the Grateful Dead.

https://medium.com/@soup777/from-song-to-saga-the-journey-of-the-grateful-deads-doodah-man-fe07c34c9f98#:~:text=Central%20to%20the%20narrative%20of,were%20common%20in%20the%20countercultural

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-03 03:50 PM

Sorry bad link.

search
From Song to Saga: The Journey of the Grateful Dead's Doodah Man
Dan Campbell

Apr 27, 2024 Medium article

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-03 03:52 PM

But is it a bigger flop than the Cybertruck ICE version, the Pontiac Aztek?

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-03 03:58 PM

@#2 ... Who the eff is the doo dah man though....

Who is the Doo-Dah Man in the Grateful Dead song Truckin"? (2023)
faroutmagazine.co.uk

Grateful Dead - Truckin' (1970)
www.youtube.com

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-03 04:12 PM

I give the finger to every cyber truck that drives by.

Not because of Musk (I started this before the 2020 election), but because it's a guarantee that whoever is driving that hideous piece of s*&^ is a douchebag deserving of the finger for just being a hideous piece of s*&^ driving douchebag.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-03 05:04 PM

I'm surprised the Tesla board hasn't already fired Musk.

To make matters worse, he's discontinuing their best selling model, the Model Y, sales in Europe are down 40-60% depending on the country, and every time he opens his mouth TSLA shares drop even further. TSLA's already down 56% since Trump's election.

#8 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-03 05:54 PM

My first car was an awful Nash Rambler. People would get a junk Nash and set up a booth at the county fair and raise money for charity by charging a buck to whack it with a sledge hammer. It was called "Smash the Nash".

Does that give anyone ideas?

#9 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-04-03 05:58 PM

Cybertruck ICE version, the Pontiac Aztek?

Looks like an Aztek, burns like a Pinto.

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-03 06:11 PM

@#8 ... I'm surprised the Tesla board hasn't already fired Musk. ...

The Tesla Board is, imo, like the Trump Cabinet.

Chosen for loyalty to the leader.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-03 06:14 PM

has little to do with the democrat vigilantes

following orders from their tvs and destroying personal

property.

has to do with a fact.

it's ugly as shvt.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-03 07:40 PM

The nazi junkie gets a kick out of incinerating kids.

www.jalopnik.com

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-03 07:42 PM

it's ugly as shvt.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan

So's your mom, but guys still ---- her in the ass.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-03 07:57 PM

So's your mom, but guys still ---- her in the ass.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Alright alright. Enough about the night shrimpd!(& was conceived...

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-04 02:47 AM

Elon's Douche Panzers have been a bad joke since day one. I didn't think it was possible to out-douche the Humvee, but the super-genius pulled it off.

#16 | Posted by anton at 2025-04-04 04:52 AM

But is it a bigger flop than the Cybertruck ICE version, the Pontiac Aztek?

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-03 03:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's much worse.

That Aztek was only 8% more sales short of breaking even. They sold almost 28k a year, they needed 30k to break even, they projected they would sell 75k annual.

Cybertruck deliveries were just under 39k for 2024, with a goal of 250k annual, they need to sell at least 75k of them to break even with a $15k-$20k gross margin. Some estimates have put it at 200k annual required to break even.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-04-04 09:35 AM

I read a post elsewhere suggesting that the cyber-trucks be turned into septic tanks. I posted back that if the poster did that, he best pray that it didn't explode,

#18 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-04-04 10:54 AM

Tesla stock sinks as analysts say 'unprecedented' brand damage

qz.com

People loathe the ketamine-addicted nazi.

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-04 11:36 AM

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot; Great news at your link, R!

#20 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-04-04 12:19 PM

I've had long bed HD Chevys for decades that run and haul lots for years and many miles. Why would I pay more to buy an odd cyber truck that does less?

#21 | Posted by Robson at 2025-04-04 01:08 PM

Why would I pay more to buy an odd cyber truck that does less?

People who buy cybertrucks have no intention of hauling or towing anything.

#22 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-04 01:13 PM

#22 that's true for most truck sales.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-04 01:18 PM

Cybertruck deliveries were just under 39k for 2024, with a goal of 250k annual.

39k is pretty good for a $100k product.

F-150 sales are about 759k a year, 250k seems high to begin with.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-04 01:20 PM

I see quite a few cyber trucks here in silicon valley.

Reminds me of the days of the ModelS it's about being first and hip.

People that can afford these don't haul stuff, much like 90% of truck sales.

#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-04 01:26 PM

Cybertruck deliveries were just under 39k for 2024, with a goal of 250k annual.

39k is pretty good for a $100k product.

F-150 sales are about 759k a year, 250k seems high to begin with.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut

The lots full of rusting Cybertrucks says this is a flop.

It's not worth $100K and that's why its not selling. Well that and Musk being awful.

Tesla is taking a HUGE hit on Cybertrucks.

Now toss in the costs of recalls as well for Tesla.

#26 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-04 01:33 PM

The lots full of rusting Cybertrucks says this is a flop.

It's pointless to argue with an Elon Fanboi.

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-04 01:35 PM

1MUSKSLUT has applied several times to carry one of Elon's IVF babies.

#28 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-04 01:53 PM

Democrats adore making America and Americans into a flop. Look what they (an official political failure) lied about to give us as a President and VP. Those two (Joe and Kamala) were officially the biggest of flops by every possible measure of any country anywhere, and they could have got millions of citizens killed and lose everything.

#29 | Posted by Robson at 2025-04-04 01:56 PM

Posted by Robson at 2025-04-04 01:56 PM | Reply

---- off and rot.

#30 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-04 01:57 PM

Don't get too worked up about posts from username Robson.

It's just an ai bot that spits of random comments that don't really mean anything and are general attacks on democrats.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-04 02:03 PM

Case in point, What does his common have to do with cyber trucks or this thread?

Nothing. It's just a vague statement, a word salad really, of attacks on democrats.

#32 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-04 02:06 PM

39k is pretty good for a $100k product.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-04 01:20 PM | Reply

they need to sell at least 75k of them to break even with a $15k-$20k gross margin. Some estimates have put it at 200k annual required to break even.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-04-04 09:35 AM | Reply

Note, again, the Aztec was only 8% off its break even goal and is attributed with ending the Pontiac brand.

#33 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-04-04 03:23 PM

Break even numbers are of course now skyrocketing towards the worst case scenario as Tesla continues to go deeper with the already significant discounts.

#34 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-04-04 03:24 PM

One: here in rural mid- Michigan, there are tons of jacked up 4x4s that only see off road use if the golf course parking lot is unpaved.
And for all the pickups here I've only seen two wankpanzers, and they were both on the freeway passing through.

#35 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-05 11:14 AM

jacked up 4x4s that only see off road use if the golf course parking lot is unpaved.

Same here. The latest fad is super wide tires on offset rims so the truck has 10" of tire sticking out past the wheel well. Not a speck of dirt on the body though.

#36 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-05 11:34 AM

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