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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m dismayed by car reviewers that cover the Tesla and make a passing comment on how they don’t support Musk.

  Like James May did a Tesla review saying, “I didn’t buy it to support Elon Musk.”

  That’s like being a T shirt reviewer, buying a T shirt from a Hitler Youth website, and then saying, “I don’t support Nazis. I bought this T shirt to support the garment workers and graphic artists who created the T shirt.”

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  • liuther9@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also Tesla is shit I was so surprised how bad is the experience of riding it compared to Subaru Forester 2007 for example. It is like you paid money to get humiliated

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    RCRs did a review of a viewer’s Cybertruck. No comment on the owner or why a viewer of RCR would own one, but tried giving a neutral review. He liked the all wheel steering, but other said he never drove a car before that felt like it actively hated the driver.

    I don’t know about Jame May, but I know Jeremy Clarkson is a Man Made Climate Change denier, previously being a regular Climate Change denier. I wouldn’t be surprised if May’s only issue with Musk is the EVs and bad optics. Wait, never mind. May knows when something’s up, but doesn’t have the spine to speak up.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      but tried giving a neutral review.

      The issue isn’t giving it a neutral review. All reviews, if they aren’t shills, give neutral reviews.

      The issue is that James May bought that car with his own money. He said it’s his daily driver which is an endorsement even though he has nitpicks.

      So he literally handed money to Elon Musk and then had the audacity to say he wasn’t supporting Musk.

      Clarkson hasn’t been a climate change denier since 2019. But he still says individual change is useless.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tesla owners call it a frunk, get it right. 🤣

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ‘Frunk’ is not Tesla-specific. Many electric cars have a frunk, and the term even predates electric cars – it’s common for rear-engine gasoline cars to have a frunk.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Okay, curious though, was the word frunk a thing back when the old 1960’s VW Bug cars were a thing?

      I dunno, but the word trunk predates the automobile by quite a long time, so why a special word for a front trunk vs a back trunk? Why isn’t there a special word for back trunk like brunk?

      If you’re playing an RPG such as Diablo and find a treasure trunk, do you call it a treasure frunk if it’s in the front of a dungeon?

      Didn’t think so. Frunk just sounds stupid.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Frunk - fragile junk

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• tabularasa@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nice Viper.

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  • myyass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Always wanted to try to drive one

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• CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This would actually make sense if it was two cyber trucks.

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• bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are a lot of different Tesla.

  The least you could have done, is mention that it is a cyber truck.

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  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The company is owned by the same guy, regardless of which model you buy. Purchasing a tesla is a choice to further line the pockets of an already obscenely-wealthy technofascist who is actively trying to dismantle democracy and human rights around the globe.

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The company is owned by the same guy, regardless of which model you buy.

      I’ll give some people with older models a pass. Musk was less visibly a Nazi asshole back in the day. And maybe it’s just not feasible for them to buy a different car at the moment when they already have this one.

      However, this pass never applies to Cybertruck owners, because Musk was already very public about it well before the first Cybertrucks were available to buy.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They all have one thing in common, poorest reliability of any brand according to TUV data.

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  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    pretty sure the joke was that teslas just suck in general.

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• chungus_eater@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  tesla boo smelly

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• AliOski@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t need to pretend, overused joke. Call me nuts, but the Cybertruck looks pretty cool to me. My only critique about it is the road safety.

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  • FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My daughter loves them. There’s a pink one that we sometimes see and she goes nuts over it (and, mind, we never did the whole “pink is for girls” thing–she just LOVES pink). So I can’t outright call them ugly because I love my kid.

    I’m convinced that it looks better in every color but standard. Also the front isn’t too bad. Neither is the profile. But all angles of the rear of the truck are big, boxy, just not good looking (in my opinion). But I’m willing to say that I appreciate someone being willing to produce a vehicle that maintains the concept look and actually tries to look different. There’s a lot wrong with the CyberTruck; the exterior design is probably about the least of it.

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