There is nothing to hit it with. No matter where you look at it, there is no logic to it. Not at least from the point of view of someone who grew up loving the cars and trucks of an analog era. The Tesla Cybertruck is without a doubt the most disruptive vehicle of recent decades and, probably, of the entire history of the automobile.
It is the same truck that President Javier Milei drove when he visited Elon Musk at his Texas plant in April. Nobody asked for her, nobody expected her and when she passes by on the street today everyone looks at her.
After a failed presentation made in 2019 by Musk himself, owner of Tesla, customers They had to wait until the end of 2023 and the beginning of this year to start receiving your units. One of them was Arnaldo Hernández, owner of the store AVC Photo in Miami, who received his Cybertruck in February.
“The first time I saw it, it reminded me of a refrigerator,” he told Clarion (see box) before handing over your vehicle so that this medium can make a brief contact with the most outlandish model in the global automotive industry.
You have to admit that it is inevitable to stay looking at it. Not because of the harmony of its forms, but on the contrary: its lines are perverse, they defy logic and history. It is made up of angles and triangles that are not seen in another vehicle. It really looks like it’s from another planet. The images that show it on red earth make a Martian scene plausible.
At the same time there is something simple in those lines, since They could have been drawn by a 4 or 5 year old childwho is just beginning to master the pencil and seeks to move with safe strokes.
To that we must add the stainless steel body, the absolutely flat windows and tires with a design to conquer any terrain. It has crude finishing details that would not pass the quality controls of most car brands, in terms of burrs, sharp edges and gaps between body parts.
What the Tesla Cybertruck looks like inside
But if it is exotic on the outside, its interior is up to par. The only analog controls are the windows and the controls on the almost oval steering wheel. Everything else, It’s on the huge 18.5-inch touch screen.
In the Tesla Cybertruck there are almost no analog commands, almost everything is on its 18.5″ screen.Even the gear selector is there: you slide your finger up in a certain sector to move forward and down to engage reverse. It doesn’t even have a start button: once inside, you press the brake and the pickup is “on the road.”
The version we handled was the Foundation Seriesa limited launch edition with two electric motors and almost all the options included. The two motors give it integral traction (there is one on each axle), more than 600 horsepoweracceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.3 seconds and a range of up to 547 km.
You feel strange behind the wheel. First because the steering wheel is not such. Secondly, because the windshield is ridiculously large (1.8 m x 1.75 m) and so is the board; There must be one meter from the steering wheel to the joint below the windshield: to clean it from the inside you need a glass cleaner with an extender.
The panoramic roof of the Tesla Cybertruck is gigantic.But that panoramic view doesn’t necessarily give good visibility: the A-pillars are huge and cover up the diagonal views. He roof is glass and there is no doubt that it is the largest in the entire industry.
How the Tesla Cybertruck is doing
But the strangest thing of all is handling it. The acceleration power is great, despite the fact that it claims more than 3 tons of weight. Besides, the air suspension filters everything that happens underneath:pothole, bump or speed bump disappears when the Cybertruck passes.
What you have to get used to is the direction. It has no mechanical connection, it moves with electrical impulses and you do not have to turn a full turn of the steering wheel to go from lock to lock.
The Tesla Cybertruck offers remarkable ride comfort.To this we must add the directional rear wheels, which rotate a lot (it is not clear how much but it is noticed by the rearview mirrors). That gives you a tour radio superior to that of a Fitito and gives it unexpected agility at almost 6 meters long.
And if there was no room for surprise, we used Autopilot, Tesla’s autonomous driving system. Generates a little vertigosince it moves at normal speeds, it is not that it is slower. Even in parking streets. Its radars detect stop signs and give way if another vehicle has priority.
We could not say that it is infallible, since several accidents in the US question its operation, but we can affirm that only one construction site that occupied an entire lane left Autopilot without knowing what to do.
Tesla Cybertruck and Ford Mustang Mach-E, no relation in proportions.Handling that device was almost as strange as interpreting its shapes and purpose. But don’t try to understand it. Love her or hate her, because there is no way to be indifferent to her presence.
Technical sheet
Wheelbase 3,635 mm
Front track 1,772 mm
Load capacity 1,134 kg
Towing capacity 4,990 kg
Aerodynamic coefficient (Cx) 0.34
Propulsion Two electric motors
Maximum speed 180 km/h
Acceleration 0-100 km/h 4.3 seconds
DC charging power 250 kW
Autopilot driving system
Automatic air conditioning
18.5” multimedia screen
Hi-Fi sound with 15 speakers
Two wireless phone chargers
