The truck that was supposed to revolutionize everything is flopping fast.
The hype is dead. The Tesla Cybertruck, once billed as the future of electric vehicles, is now looking like a commercial bust.
In the second quarter of 2025, Tesla sold just 4,306 Cybertrucks, down a staggering 50.8% from the 8,755 units it delivered during the same period last year, according to new data from Kelley Blue Book. This plunge is a signal that America’s most hyped truck may already be out of gas.
They will become quite valuable oldtimers. As hated as they are, they are kind of an iconic car. Unique design and there are (were?) a lot of Tesla fanboys around. Expensive. Really small production run, not many around. Owners crashing them left and right. Bad build quality. And it’s kind of hard to think about one of them being able to really run in 30 years or so with how connected they are to Teslas software infrastructure.
They will be literally unmaintainable and the glue and tape holding them together cause them to fall apart.
Aside from a Tesla superfan who’s into history I can’t see them being collector’s items. But I guess time will tell
How much are Edsels worth today? Not much I imagine.
Last time I checked, if you had bought an Edsel new, its value would have kept up with inflation. Some of the higher end trims do a little better than inflation. Which isn’t a particularly good investment either way, especially one that needs to be maintained with more money and effort. Tossing it in t-bonds would do just as well or better with almost zero effort.
An Edsel is a hell of an automobile compared to that non-sense.
20 years from now: 2024 Deplorean, 40,000 miles. Battery range down to 18 miles and new batteries are unobtanium, but thoroughly communicates to all of your neighbors how far right you are.
$Eleventeen Kerbillion space bucks
No lowballers, I know what I’ve got
Hopefully 20 years from now expressing that you’re far right is not a safe thing to do in society anymore and people only admit it behind closed doors.
I’ll just be happy to not need to learn any new salutes
Between the motors and batteries, there’s some good scrap value at least.
Nah, they’ll dump whatever they can produce in the next few years trying to recover the cost of the production infrastructure.