There are two types of people that buy Teslas:
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People that buy them as Nazi jewelry
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People that buy them as Nazi technology
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Guy needed a truck for work, and he got a big boner for Trump and Musk, and bought a SwastiKKKar. It quickly became apparent that it was completely inadequate for work, or anything else really, but at that point it had a resale value of less than zero, so he had no choice but to make it work.
there are enough valid reasons to shit onto he cybertruck that there’s no need for us to pretend this exact mod isn’t done to plenty of regular trucks
IIRC, there was basically supposed to be an official version of this as an add-on. What happened to that?
Ya, but this is not a truck any more than the Hyundai Santa Cruz is a truck. It’s UTE. And anyone who does this to their Santa Cruz would also deserve to be mocked.
You’re kind of both missing the point. It isn’t really about the truck. MAGAs should be bullied and abused as much as possible. The truck is only a good excuse to heap on more scorn. He could have driving a perfectly acceptable ride, and I’d still excoriate them.
MAGAs are the only acceptable targets for bullying, and it should be savage.
Looks great actually. Simpler to build than a curved body. Nice flat lumber rack on top so you can build more for your friends, because let’s face it at this point your only friends are from the local Cybertruck club. A+
It looks apocalyptic, but wouldn’t last long in an apocalypse.
The front isn’t even attached and is just floating. I’m waiting for some wind to rip that thing off.
Dacia Papuc?
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Simone did a much better job with her Truckla.
In later follow-up she said her franken-truckla suffered electrical problems, rain leakage, and has been relegated to someone’s backyard, rotting away under a tarp.
If this camper’s a-clankin’
Don’t knock — I’m wankin’
Props for keeping the aesthetics
A cyberfuck
Better than my name for it: The Tarditron 3000
Better than mine… Der MuskWagen.
Respect for the mod itself, but i’d estimate the air resistance of that thing reduces it’s range by 20% or so.
Prototype X73
Well is it a truck or is it not?
The fact that you can’t just throw stock pickup accessories on it is its biggest flaw. And that’s saying something, because it deliberately locks occupants inside when it catches fire.
Can’t sue if you’re dead. Taps temple
Back looks like a face desperately crying for help
I’m of an age where much fun was had in the back of the Ford version
Did you drive around with your friends catching ghosts?
No, but I’m still married to the last girl that I made out with in the back of my mate’s FORD FALCON XD? v8
Looks like something the old Top Gear presenters would build
Tonoight:
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James trips over a phone cord, “Oh cock!”
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Hammond says the word ‘egalitarian’ “Egalitarian.”
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and I hit a man with a shovel. PANG “oof!” “Sorry.”
Ive never watched an episode of Top Gear… Is it worth it and does it hold up?
Is it worth it? I think so, I enjoyed it. Does it hold up? Complicated question.
The Clarkson-Hammond-May show ran for a couple decades and went through three major phases: journalism, shenanigan and adventure.
In earlier seasons they were more of a typical car show, they did more journalism relevant to the average driver…in early 2000s Britain. Top Gear isn’t looked back on fondly for Richard Hammond reporting on viewer polls for new car reliability in 2002. They still made an entertaining show, the cool wall and things like that are entertaining, but I would start you out with later episodes and let you watch these later if you like it. Series staples like taking sports cars for a fast lap around their track to compare their times, and doing celebrity interviews complete with a racing lap around the same track in a compact car, the “Star In A Reasonably Priced Car” segment, begin here.
5 or 6 years in they started the shenanigan era, which is probably what peopel mean when they say “This reminds me of Top Gear.” They’d buy three used cars and go do ridiculous things, like turn them into camper vans, or outfit them for racing, or make sports cars into ambulances. In the words of Richard Hammond, “What this was, was fun. And I think we’re quite good at fun.” If I can point to an episode to introduce new viewers to the series, it’d be the British Leyland challenge episode. The show really starts to shine in this era; the three hosts have great chemistry together and the shenanigans give them more opportunity to play off one another.
That gradually transitioned into the adventure era, as “three guys drive some old cars to the other side of London” becomes racing Veyron against a Cessna 182 across the length of Europe, or driving three old four-by-fours across South America or three ordinary RWD cars across Botswana. The show gradually abandoned the studio segments and became just, the three guys go somewhere in the world and drive some cars in interesting or spectacular locations. There’s great stuff here, their Botswana trip is amazing, their Korea trip is amazing, their Nile trip is wonderful, their North Pole trip is NUTS. But I’d watch earlier cheap car challenge episodes first.
Wow. Thanks for the detailed write up and recommendation. I was graduated from high school when the show was first airing, but I just never took the time to watch it because i wasnt a car guy. Then i was aware that shenanigans were happening, but in my mind it was still just a car show. But now 20 years later, people are still talking about it. If I can find it, maybe i’ll give it a watch starting where you suggested.
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