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- monNom2
Say what you will about the man, he knows how to shake things up. He could have made a body on frame truck like everyone else, and put a tough looking body on top of a ladder frame,
It would have been the easy thing to do. But instead he tried the more difficult thing: to reinvent the truck from a clean-sheet. He apparently looked to his experience with aerospace manufacture to build a stressed-skin structure similar to an airliner, a rocket, or a modern armoured personel carrier (wonder where those design lines and "bullet-proof" marketing come from?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP…It's weird looking. But it is fucking cool. From a design and engineering perspective, this is the stuff I love to see.
- this right hereYakuZoku
- agree. he's had the balls to do something different and has stuck to his guns.microkorg
- It looks like a truck from an 80's low budget scifi film where they welded sheets of metal on a van to make it look futuristic. Like all his ideas.PhanLo
- did i miss something cuz i thought it was revealed as a unibody with panels bolted on like any other vehicle months backjonny_quest_lives
- https://www.autoevol…jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.motortre…jonny_quest_lives
- It’ll have issues in cold weather. People will lose fingers on those ridiculous no handle doors and the windshield wiper is Homer Simpson absurd._niko
- And the weight coupled with the sharp angles of the bulletproof frame and instead of crumpling and absorbing impacts it’s going to slice cars in half_niko
- But I do love the fuckyouery of it all_niko
- 'his experience with aerospace manufacture'
Jesus fucking Christ. He has money, that's his experience. Hust like he'll buy you a pony for writing this.face_melter - Agree. All other car brands just do stupid concepts that never see the light of day instead of having balls to do it.NBQ00
- yes thats true... def. more balls than neurons... the mafia..drug cartells will love this car... will make police work much more difficult...saving civilisationneverscared
- with a car that crushes smaller cars....very charming... well, most people always prefer muscles over mind... aerospace manufacture...lol.neverscared
- needs the interiour bunker highly likely because his self driving is literally the killer...neverscared
- pushing civil cars towards to military protection..u can only ask whats next ? his faible for apocalyptic vibes clearly materialized..neverscared
- antisocial wanker carPhanLo
- Those head-on crash tests look a bit concerningwordssssss
- I think a proper unibody has zero structural contribution from the body panels. You wouldn’t use 1/8th inch thick stainless if not structural.monNom
- A typical body panel is 22ga steel which is about 1/4 the thickness of the cyber truck’s cladding. You just wouldn’t add that much weight for no reason.monNom
- And the cybertruck is the same weight as an aluminum bodied, steel framed F150 lightning. There must be something interesting going on to achieve that.monNom
- To be clear: I’m not a Tesla fanboy at all, nothing they’ve done before has really perked up my antenae. But this is cool.monNom