Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

fouc

I think Cybertruck's mistake ultimately boils down to the bed design - it just wasn't practical enough.

bikvfeee

Enron Musk. These people are the lucky ones, the depositors for the roadster have been waiting for 10 years and will never get anything.

wodenokoto

I hadn’t heard that they are officially selling in the UAE. But I did hear that parallel imported cyber trucks to UAE was a substantial part of US sales.

dot42

Good for Australia and New Zeeland. But the ones that had dropped the deposit on a cyber truck can they really be allowed to handle their own economy?

pampas

Good. There are far too many dickheads driving oversized obnoxious vehicles hostile to the public. General Motors truck and SUV designer Karan Moorjani said “that’s what this truck should look like – a massive fist moving through the air.” Not sure what the causal relationship is but I suspect it's a bit of both ways. Driving a big "fist" probably makes people drive more aggressively but I suspect assholes are attracted to buying them too. Unfortunately this won't do much. There are so many Ford Rangers around that Ranger Danger is a term. And BYD seems keen to take over with the ugly shark.

NamTaf

I wonder whether nore stringent pedestrian safety compliance requirements may have come into play. When I first saw that thing, that was the first thought that popped into my head.

metalman

I had one of those in front of me the other day and it's not a truck, cyber or otherwise, it's a bloat car that answers to some vauge notion of space ships and laser cannons, but by all accounts is poorly built and drives like a cow and looks out of place everywhere, except possibly when stuck in gridlock when you could go up and put your hand on the tint to see what the person driving the thing looks like. if they had built a cab over, 4 door, 4x4 with a 9' deck, they would have my undivided attention, a platform that could be a minibus or cargo van, cab over flat deck, or the crew cab farm truck that I will end up building myself.

tacker2000

150 AUD isn't that much, but this pre-order scam that Elon is doing has helped him get free cash a lot of times. People must surely be catching on, no? But I heard even Sam Altman gave him 50k for a roadster a couple of years ago...

nubinetwork

What's 7 years of interest on $150AUS? Follow the money...

Vaushite

Since they have actual consumer protection laws down there, they will refund all those deposits. Either voluntarily, or by force.