In addition to highlighting a few of the best sad reactions, Wired also spoke with Cybertruck fans to hear their thoughts directly. “So everybody in my group, they are not happy,” a contractor in Palm Springs name Michael Goldman told Wired. “I’ve had people reaching out to me through the group, asking me, like, ‘What are you going to do?’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, I don’t know.'” That group, by the way, is called Cybertruck Owners Only and has more than 82,000 members, every single one of whom we can assume is equally depressed now.
The article also uses the “betrayal” and “disappointment” to describe how many owners feel, which always feels good to see. As for Goldman, he told Wired he nearly bought a second Cybertruck to have for when his first one dies. Unfortunately for Mr. Goldman here, that didn’t work out because Tesla pulled the ultimate Tesla move on him right before he pulled the trigger. “I’ll be honest with you, I was going pull the trigger on a [Cyberbeast] about two days ago, and I have a reservation already in my phone,” Goldman told Klee. But before he officially put his order in, “the price increased like another $8,000 or something, and that was my sign to not do it.”
That price increase wasn’t personal, though. Per Car and Driver, while the Cybertruck will reportedly stay in production through some point in 2027, the only version you can now buy costs $112,000. So that’s not exactly cheap. Then again, who expects consistent pricing out of Tesla? You may not have to negotiate with a dealer salesperson, but Tesla pricing is still an expensive game of Russian roulette, and it has been for years.
Speaking with Wired, Troy Meekhof (the man behind the Cybertruck Guy Twitter account) said, “I absolutely do think this is the wrong move for the Tesla brand, and it’s not necessarily because of the removal of an under-performing product, but it’s a clear symbol of Tesla’s aggression towards transitioning to autonomous vehicles only,” adding, “If you ask me, it is far too aggressive, and I have a growing conviction that, at least in America, the population and legislators are not ready nor interested in autonomous vehicles today en masse.” Huh.
