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It looks like the truck that a person who’s never used a truck would build.
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From some angles it looks cool, but from others it's not very well designed. When it was first unveiled I liked the boldness, but in the end even the design comes apart rather quickly.
Exactly. The aesthetic itself isn't the problem (although not at all what I would want my vehicle to look like), it's just really badly executed. Some features like the headlight bar looks cool from certain angles, but all the proportions just feel wrong, the silhouette is awful and it just looks so enormous and stupid in person.
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Have you ever looked at one from behind? Goofiest, ugliest shit ever from the rear.
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I bet you like the St. Anger snare too, you absolute madman. Points for being unpopular.
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It's actually futuristic, which would be neat if Tesla's owner didn't think that the societies that cyberpunk works depict are something to strife for. Plus, that kind of edgy design is hostile to cyclists and pedestrians.
All cars are hostile to pedestrians and cyclists
True, but it still makes a big difference whether the car is deadly at 30 km/h or already at 15 km/h.
~~It's also hostile to all other cars. The lack of crumple zone makes it a hazard to everyone and everything except the person in it.~~
Edit: I stand corrected, see below
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I will second this very unpopular opinion. I don’t quite like the Tesla truck but I like that fresh direction. I think with some minor tweaks it could look a lot cooler and still keep the polygon sci-fi vibe. If it wasn’t being killed I bet future versions of it could have been really neat.
i agree, but i think they ruined it by curving the front (probably for practical purposes)
I like the way they cool. Too bad about everything else.
I don't like the truck as a whole but the shape is peak Nintendo 64 and I love it. I wish it was a better vehicle so I could own one.
My 2yo daughter saw one in a parking lot and said "that one's magic."
I think it looks decent with a white or black skin, I'm not really a fan of the silver look
I think it looks pretty good from the side, but from pretty much any other angle it's just an ugly box.
When it was first revealed, I was a fan of the design (not that I was going to be buying anything from muskrat) but the more I saw of it the less I liked the looks.
It's kind of like they spent the whole time designing it from the side view, then ran out of time before they were going to reveal it and decided to just connect the two sides with some rectangles and straight lines.
It would make a cool Hot Wheels diecast if the proportions were closer to a normal vehicle.
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Fair take, and well stated. Looks are subjective, so can’t really fault someone for liking the look of something I think looks overdone at best. Extra points for recognizing that it was clearly designed by someone who has never needed a truck for anything more than helping someone move or hauling expensive weekend toys.
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Agree on liking the retro-futuristic vibe!
Sure, it’s impractical for aerodynamics and problematic for crashes, but vibe wise I like it. At first, I thought it was bold that someone would look at an old sci-fi magazine and go for the aesthetic. But, you know, sci-fi cover art doesn’t need to deal with practical issues. While here, it really feels like they overlooked quite some other problems to sacrifice them to “the aesthetic”. I think one can still like the design while thinking it is a bad idea.