The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.
Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”
Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”
The original delivery agreement for the Foundation Series (initial 1000 built) when they first launched required you to get Tesla’s permission to resell the vehicle for the first year.
Which is common for limited availability vehicles upon release from basically every manufacturer. The average person is never buying limited edition vehicles so it’s not relevant to 99.9% of the population, and something they’ve never heard of. Ford does it with every limited release Mustang variant for a common example.
The two primary reasons are essentially to prevent scalping, and so they can guarantee they receive back any vehicles with initial production run issues so engineers can study them. But facts don’t stop media reporting, especially when it comes to headlines about Musk.
Some manufacturers keep ownership limitations like that in place indefinitely. Ferrari famously sued Deadmau5 because of his Purrari modifications, so he had to remove them and sold the car, replacing it with a Meowclaren instead.
He specifically got in trouble for replacing the badge with a prancing cat and the Ferrari name with Purrari:
One of the easiest and most common changes people make to their cars is changing or removing badges like that. Can’t with a Ferrari though.
Not like I’ll ever want or be able to afford a Fertari, but fuck that.
I pay money for something I own it. I do what I please with my own possessions.
That’s one of the requirements for choosing to own one of those. Don’t like it, get a different brand. That’s literally what Ferrari says about it. L
So Deadmau5 got a McLaren instead. Nissan also offered a GT-R as an option to replace the Purrari. Because they cared more about him driving one of their vehicles than onerous limits.
Ferrari has always had their heads up their own ass. It’s literally how the company was founded and why Lamborghini was founded.
I get the contractual shit–I’m just not into it.
I agree! Ferraris are like nice houses in an HOA. Whatever it used to mean it sure as hell don’t mean it anymore and now it’s kind of like code for being bulled around by fascist little twats.
How do they control it if the original owner sells it? Is it a written requirement that they can only sell to people who also sign the same contract?
I would say I would never buy a Ferrari (which is true anyway) but I also wouldn’t consider that to even qualify as actual ownership, so even if I did pay for one, I still wouldn’t be willing to call it “buying”.
Having the luxury of paying to drive one ;)