Tesla’s Cybertruck just made its grand debut at Mardi Gras 2025, and, well… it didn’t go great. Watch the Video: The Crowd Was Not Having It. A group of Cybertrucks rolled through the Orpheus Parade, a generally tame, family-friendly event known for marching bands, fabulous floats, and an all-around good time. But when the small […]
Maybe I should have taken my Opel Vectra to the parade, because why the hell not? /s
In other words, what the hell does simply “a car” do at a parade anyway?
It reeks advertising and bad taste.
There is a separate car and truck parade at NoLa’s Carnival, where you roll up with whatever and parade in that. These folks… well, I’m not sure why they didn’t just go to the truck parade.
I bet they had crappy throws or no throws, too.
For those who may be from the Frozen Nawth, Mardi Gras parades, particularly in New Orleans, are all about the free giveaways.
They were buttoned up tight as a tank, no throws whatsoever.
And I’m one of those frozen northlanders, too, I only been to the Big Easy once and even I know you bring the free goodies!!!
Maybe because the Cybertruck is not a car because it’s supposed to be a truck, but it’s not a proper truck either.
It’s a killer monstrosity that can propel 3½ ton of metal from zero to sixty in a few seconds.
but not up a hill
And not whilst towing anything heavy and having the frame remain in one piece
Oh? I hadn’t heard about this one
Lol yep. It’s because they made the frame out of aluminum. Every - and I do mean every - other proper pickup truck has a steel frame.
But a steel frame would make it even slower up hills lol
At least you don’t need to worry about hills in New Orleans.
Is this some reference I’m not aware of?
cybertrucks can’t get up hills. they’re slower uphill than laden semis
OK, that’s weird? But let me guess…
Is it because of some sort of design flaw?
Or maybe tires that were chosen to extend range instead of actually working?
Oh and of course the fact that it’s so heavy.
it’s the weight and the motor. they weigh more than any other light duty truck on the market by a wide margin and the motor lacks the torque to make up the difference. to increase the torque you would need to make the vehicle more of a fire hazard than it already is.
all of this constitutes an extremely core design flaw which is that no one asked “what is a truck?” when they designed their truck. they never asked what the purpose of the vehicle should be, instead choosing to design a device for a paranoid ketamine addicted indoor boy who wouldn’t be capable of surviving the apocalypse he envisioned the truck for without someone else heating his canned baked beans for him
If President Musk and VP Trump manage to actually destroy the country, I hope I live long enough to laugh at how quickly every last Cybertruck becomes an unusable hunk of stainless steel rotting away wherever it gasped its final breath.
It’s crazy, because the F150 lightning and the comparable offerings from GM and Toyota and so on are, from what I’ve seen and read, legitimately solid trucks even if you outright ignore the electric propulsion. But eel-on-musk had a “better” idea.
Just you don’t miss it, the frame is also worthless and towing is a bad idea. The tow ball isn’t even attached directly to the frame, it’s wild.
Realistically it’s not even that—there are plenty of fast/powerful vehicles that aren’t universally hated.
It’s seriously just Musk.
…And maybe a little bit of how ugly they are. lol
Probably because the truck folks hate them.