The "truck" has a terrible design, and often is incapable of completing basic tasks a truck is expected to do without great difficulty or some weird quirk.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 49 points 3 months ago

Youtuber be like:

The "truck" has a terrible design, and often is incapable of completing basic tasks a truck is expected to do without great difficulty or some weird quirk.

but it's a great truck, i love it.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Is the Cybertruck even a truck? I don't see the "truck" part.

I know very little about cars, and even less about trucks. When I think of a truck, I think of a bed in the back where you can haul stuff from Home Depot.

Where is the "truck" part?

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trucks with covers are a thing, it’s called a tonneau. What’s not normal is for them to be permanent.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's not entirely true. The high end of aftermarket covers are electric, require the semi permanent installation of rails, wires, and the box, and are fairly cumbersome to remove. They're not permanent in that they can be removed, but practically no one does this. Rivian's truck has one built in as well. Most legacy manufacturers leave this to dealers to do as it's an easy high profit accessory for them to upsell.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that’s I mean though, it’s optional and not a fundamental design of the truck.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For legacy automaker pickups, that's true. It's a dream accessorie: a factory, waterproof, roll away, electric, secure tonneau that doesn't eat bed space is a HUGE draw.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Someone on my discord posted the warranty terms and apparently it doesn't cover unusual damage or useage such as exposrure to rain, sunlight or being used off a paved road. So no its not a truck, in fact it doesn't even stand up as a car.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

It has a bed with a cover on, raccoons think it's a dumpster and try and open it.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know very little about cars, and even less about trucks. When I think of a truck, I think of a bed in the back where you can haul stuff from Home Depot. Where is the “truck” part?

Generally if you get a truck and do truck things with it, there's 2 specific things a truck will have that no other class has:

A protected bed that you can put bulky and dirty/stinky items into for transport
The ability to pull a large trailer

But hilariously your average crossover is fully capable of hauling an inexpensive trailer and a couple thousand pounds of whatever if not more than that, which covers 99.9% of the lifestyle arguments most pavement princes truck owners make for why they need a truck

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, for sure trucks do not own pulling trailers, and they are fairly bad for cargo also. Truck fans will hate it, but a minivan can take care of both of those probably just as well, if not potentially better. The one use case is oversized cargo, which is almost never hauled by anyone. In the off chance you need that you can rent a truck or uhaul.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the market for a truck and actually drew this same conclusion. Trucks are terrible in fuel efficiency and would likely not be my daily driver.

The main reason I want to buy (vs renting a truck or uhaul) is primarily availability. When I'm doing a weekend project, on more than one occasion I could not rent a truck because everyone else had the same idea.

Over the past year, I've rented the Home Depot truck four times, totaling about $400 which includes fuel and late fees. The main difference between renting a Home Depot truck vs a uhaul is that you don't pay mileage. Renting the Uhaul once is about $200 with mileage and gas.

Uhuals can be reserved, but at that price point it's not worth it.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

If you're a new homeowner and either have a lot to fix or a lot of projects in mind, a pickup is great. Daily driving it is useful for when you have to grab materials after work. I opted for an older $2000 Ranger 4cyl 2wd earlier this year for that so I'm not killed by fuel economy. It gets 20mpg on my commute but I do also split that with a 50mpg motorcycle. It's also great for when you see random bulky things on the side of the road you want. I did start with a 4x8 trailer but it's not as convenient. I admit, part of that was because my wife s car was the only one with a functional hitch.

But I'm talking a Ranger. Like an F-050. 115hp. This little guy has hauled so much already. The only thing it can't technically do is tow a car and I don't have the capital left to buy a nonrunning project car. I've been eyeing the new Maverick in hybrid form. But maybe by time I have the cash for such a new vehicle I won't be doing reno projects anymore

[–] Clasm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I'm going to start calling them Tesla hatchbacks.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 21 points 3 months ago

My first live sighting of one of them I realized how god-awful ugly they really are. Even in some bronze/pewter terrible color. Or maybe it got left in the rain and that's just corrosion.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I forgot about that! Good times. They got team killed/crippled pretty often too.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, it was funny when the entire game would stop just to focus on killing the gold skin user. Didn't matter what team they were on, they became the collective target of everyone in the match. Good times, indeed.