• Ford’s CEO said Tesla’s Cybertruck is for “Silicon Valley people” not “real people who do real work.”
  • Jim Farley said Tesla’s pickup truck won’t compete with the F-150 Lightning.
  • Tesla is expected to release the EV pickup later this year, but it’s been delayed several times.
  • Perhaps@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s crazy that I live in a world where I’m rooting for Ford, of all things.

    The Ford Maverick is actually a step in the right direction though. It’s got a bed and it’s relatively affordable. A lot of small contractors don’t need giant jacked up V8s.

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      1 year ago

      I like the F150 but when the Ford CEO says “I make trucks for real people who do real work,” as a “non-real” person who “doesn’t do real work as I don’t need a truck”, well, he can fuck right off. What an asshole.

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        I think the point still stands: people who buy trucks want to believe they can do real work, kind of like the fantasy of an SUV as a rugged vehicle even though their buyers typically treat them like street cars.

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          Or people who buy “sports” cars and then end up sitting in traffic 90% of the time. I’ve never understood most car buyers.

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        Well, you’re right, that guy is an asshole. But he also makes a point, namely that there is no person in the world with a reason to purchase a Cybertruck other than just to jerk off Elongated Muskrat a bit more. It doesn’t do anything practical. Even someone with an F150 or a Ram 2500, while yes they do generally own a parking lot princess, it can do truck stuff in a pinch. It has a bed and a tailgate and it can haul a trailer. Cybertruck can maybe haul a trailer but it isn’t going to do anything else practical that a Ford won’t. You’ll never catch a contractor driving a Cybertruck. You will find them driving an F150.

        Point is, he’s not saying you aren’t real, he’s saying the hypothetical person that has a valid use case for a Cybertruck isn’t real. If someone is going out to buy a truck to perform work they aren’t looking at Tesla.