A small group of fans — and one of Musk’s crying children — gathered at the Austin Gigafactory, cheering as the billionaire CEO lauded the 7,000-pound electric pickup’s general indestructibility, defending its brutalist architectural design that resembles the marine carrier from Aliens.
...given its excessive weight and design, the Cybertruck probably can’t be sold outside of North America since it may not comply with pedestrian safety rules.
“It’s a novelty item and Tesla’s fans clamor for those,” Eric Noble, president of industry consultant The CarLab in Orange, California, told Forbes.
“We dug our own grave with the Cybertruck,” he told investors in October.
The initial “Foundation” version the company is delivering costs $120,000. That high price, when interest rates are much higher than they’ve been in years, is a “double negative on affordability,”
At its public debut in November 2019......Musk claimed the vehicle would be on the road by 2021 with a base price of as little as $39,900.
Amazing what inflation can do to prices.
Not so sure about claims of how amazing the Cybertruck is and perhaps it's good if it is not allowed in to Oz due to compliance issues but then even if it does manage to land on our shores there may be few prepared to fork out around A$180k just for a 7000lb 'novelty' item.
