re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

E-Edsel

See, the only problem with that comparison is that Edsel was a cynical cash-grab, it was Ford execs trying to squeeze in another model range between Mercury and Lincoln to milk the suckers that much harder. It wasn’t all that ambitious because Ford’s competitors had already turned badge-engineering into a science, nor was there any passion in the project because otherwise they might have actually paid attention to build quality.

The better example is (unsurprisingly) the DeLorean, because that John DeLorean trying to flex on his former bosses by proving he could build a sports car outside the system that was everything he believed a sports car should be without compromises…except he compromised on pretty much everything just to get it built. And that’s what the Cybertruck feels like, Elmo trying so desperately to flex on the major manufacturers by building a “futuristic” truck that is superior in every way by pushing the cutting edge of technology, but building it to the specs he wants would bankrupt the company so it’s riddled with compromises that are now slowly eating whatever appeal it had left.