This stainless steel tank with its flat panels and almost sharp edges looks like a space cowboy has taken the wrong exit on the Milky Way
Elon Musk’s latest model is rolling off the production line and a handful of customers have been coming to the plant every day since November to take delivery’s Cybertruck. Yet hardly anyone has ever sat in one. We have – and took off on our maiden voyage in Texas of all places.
One of them was Shaheen Badiyan, who ordered the Cybertruck on the first day the order books were opened five years ago. And while Tesla itself is opposed to all test drives, the software specialist was persuaded to let us have his car for a few hours. But with a front end as high and flat as a bulldozer, it commands everyone’s respect on the road. Among all the regular pickups with their mighty grilles and muscular flanks, the stainless-steel tank, with its flat panels and almost sharp edges, looks like a space cowboy has taken the wrong exit on the Milky Way. Rarely has a name been as appropriate as Cybertruck.
The differences between the new and old pickup worlds are particularly striking in the interior. Like every Tesla, the Cybertruck is as simply furnished as a monastery cell, whereas Ford, Chevy and similar models, with their plush armchairs and sofas, thick leather and all the chrome trimmings, look more like livingrooms on wheels.
I swipe the car forward in the top left corner and the Cybertruck beams me from what Elon Musk calls the automotive Stone Age into the future Badiyan tells me his PIN, which I dutifully enter on the screen as I would on a mobile phone. I then embarrass myself by looking around the steering wheel or anywhere else for a gearshift.
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