The most baffling thing I saw at this recent Los Angeles Auto Show – and, really, at any auto show I’ve ever been to – is the Aitekx Robotruck on display right in the middle of the show, in the large area between the main halls often reserved for startups and other low-volume companies. It was baffling because the quality of the Robotruck – which absolutely looked like a bootleg Tesla Cybertruck – was, to put it generously, abysmal. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen toddler-crafted gingerbread houses that looked more carefully constructed. I already wrote something about how miserable this thing looked, but that doesn’t really answer the bigger question: why? We talked to the people behind the baffling truck to try to find out. It was more awkward than you can possibly imagine.
There are lots of questions worth asking: Why would a company bring something so crude and poorly-built to one of the biggest auto shows in the world? What is thing going to be, anyway? Is the company real? How likely is it that it will actually be built? Are they really taking $100 reservations? Who the hell is giving this company $100 after seeing this thing?
David and I couldn’t get this remarkable mess out of our heads, so we knew we had to talk to the people behind the Robotruck. We did, and, boy, did it get awkward.
Here, you really should just brace yourself for the awkwardness and watch the whole thing, which is embedded above. You can also watch it here on YouTube.
Company Representative On His Own Truck: ‘I don’t Like It’
There’s really no way it wouldn’t get awkward, of course, since we’re going up to a startup company and asking them to explain why they decided to bring such a half-assed prototype — with a design that looks to us like an obvious knockoff — to the auto show; there’s just no nice way to ask that. I want to be clear that we’re not trying to scuttle anyone’s dreams here; if they genuinely have something they believe in, then I sincerely wish them all possible success – we need small, innovative automotive startups!
But the reality is what we saw out there on the show floor was in no way anything that would inspire confidence in the abilities or mission of this company. So we had to ask them about it, and things went in a very strange direction.
I think the strangest part is when Ed – that’s the only way we know him, as when we asked his last name he responded with “I don’t want to tell you” [Ed note: We think he’s likely Edmund Shen, see the update below]— actually agreed with us that bringing such a rough prototype to the auto show was a bad idea, saying “I don’t like it.” He actually recorded a video of David and me for one of his colleagues, stating just that. Ed said he did this because he did not like the rough bodywork, and disagreed with his “developer,” and wanted to show him that, essentially, he was right, and it was a bad idea to bring such a crude vehicle to show in public.
I think Ed was right.
Denying That The Robotruck Draws Inspiration From The Tesla Cybertruck Is Bizarre
Also strange, but perhaps slightly more expected, was the insistence from everyone at Aitekx that the company’s Robotruck was not in any way supposed to look like the Cybertruck (we didn’t even ask about the name similarity). But, while there are differences — sure, come on — it’s pretty clear what truck inspired the look of this thing:
The resemblance is especially clear in these idealized renderings of what the Robotruck is supposed to look like. And by the way, pretty much every other media outlet agrees:
And yet, AITEKX representatives denied that the truck was meant to look like the Cybertruck; in fact, they’ve denied it to others as well, with tech/startup online newspaper TechCrunch writing:
Don’t call it a Cybertruck
A previously under-the-radar company called Aitekx debuted its RoboTruck at a small booth by the auto show’s west hall.
You tell me — does this look like a Tesla to you? When I asked someone at the booth if the vehicle was inspired by the Cybertruck, he responded with a firm “no.”
I should note that on the second public day of the show, Saturday, after the slew of articles talking about the “Cybertruck clone” had appeared, they removed the big triangular “sail” piece from one side of the truck, in an effort to lessen the Cybertruck-like-look of the thing, if I had to guess.
Still, the company literally has this picture on its website:
By the way, here’s a totally unrelated and in no way similar image of the Tesla Cybetruck:
Who are we trying to kid here? And more importantly: Why?
Quality So Bad It’s Hard To Take Seriously
The real-world Robotruck is, of course, far crappier than the truck’s renderings show.
You can see some of that crappiness a few photos up, where some smaller pieces of side glass mate with the huge windshield; what appears to be black silicone sealant is just smeared in the cracks. The photo directly above also shows some of the shoddy build quality; look at the gap in that rear door, which is — believe it or not — actually closed. Here I am fitting half of my hand into that door gap as David stands by utterly shocked:
But we were even more shocked when we saw that, below the outer door panel was a gap and then another outer door panel of the donor truck on which this Robotruck was based — a Toyota Tacoma, we’re pretty sure. And the donor truck’s door handles were still there! Check it out:
By the way, here’s why we think the donor is a Toyota Tacoma — we found this on the glass:
The passenger’s side door gap, by the way, doesn’t look much better:
And if you go to the front of the car, you’ll realize that the “headlights” are literally just LED light strips stuck onto the car:
These light strips can produce white or amber output, and appear pretty much identical to these I found on Amazon for $7 a foot:
The taillights are no better; they’re also just LED light strips with a red plastic lens screwed over top:
The center high mounted stop lamp (CHMSL) is also just an LED light strip that appears to have been haphazardly installed over top of sloppy bodywork:
And I do mean sloppy bodywork; here you can tell that some kind of filler appears to have been smeared over the truck’s body prior to paint:
I could go all day showing the Robotruck’s poor craftsmanship, but there’s just no time.
The Chassis Appears To Be Unique
The two AITEKX reps pointed us to a video of the truck actually driving. Ed, who, again, literally told us he doesn’t like the truck his team brought to the show, made it clear that they’re trying to show off their technology — the body is just meant to show the concept of the truck, whose chassis his team is proud of. And by the way, that chassis does appear to be unique; this isn’t just a Toyota Tacoma underneath, to the company’s credit.
I’m going to pass to David for some commentary about the chassis:
Here’s a look at where the battery mounts to the body:
Here’s the front suspension from behind the front axle:
Here’s the front suspension from the front of the car:
Here’s the rear suspension from ahead of the rear axle:
Here’s the rear suspension from behind the rear axle; you can see the motor/drive unit:
Still, even though the chassis does appear to be AITEKX’s own design, the heim joints everywhere, flat-welded steel control arms, and square and round metal tubing — it doesn’t look to me like what you’d expect to see from a modern OEM. Seriously, here’s a Rivian front lower control arm:
And here’s the Robotruck’s:
The build looks like something you might see on a custom off-road race truck, and while the Robotruck is supposed to be an off-roader, the way the company is advertising it with pictures and videos of it on the street implies that this is meant to see some road use, and Ed told us the company plans to crash test it, so it doesn’t seem like this is just a small company making off-road-only buggies for select customers.
The Website Matches The Truck
It’s worth noting how AITEKX describes itself on its website, which is also as poorly crafted as the truck shown at the LA Auto Show. From AITEKX’s “About” page:
About
AITEKX Inc is a US Corporation located in Silicon Valley California, dedicated in versatile AI clean energy vehicles and mobility robotics development and manufacturing.
Because this is a Silicon Valley-based company, apparently, I don’t feel bad pointing out just how egregious some of the company’s website’s spelling/grammar errors are. I know I make plenty of these myself, but here at the Autopian, we do take the time to edit, usually. Check these out:
The website features a call for visitors to follow the company on social media:
The LinkedIn page brings you here:
There’s not much info to be gathered; apparently, the company has between 11 and 50 employees, and 22 folks follow it on the platform. There are no people associated with the company. The Facebook and Instagram links all lead to messages saying the page isn’t available, while the Twitter link gets you this:
Seems legit.
AITEKX Representatives Wanted Us To Write Positive Things, Leave
Also alarming about our interaction with the company was the way the two representatives – Ed (who, by the way, wouldn’t tell us the size of AITEKX’s engineering team or who the company’s financial backer is, and who told us he has no title) and a gentleman who claims to have once worked for the ill-fated Lordstown Motors – tried to convince us that the media should be writing only positive things about the companies at the car show.
Well, it was more Ed saying that, the other guy just wanted us to leave. That’s not how this works, though, Ed.
If we see a truck being displayed front and center at the Los Angeles Auto Show (look at the coverage from the Auto Show itself below), and if the makers of that truck are taking real (albeit refundable, they claim) money for reservations for this truck, then you absolutely have to understand that the quality of the truck that is shown there is going to be scrutinized by not just media, but everyone. And, sure, it’s a prototype, and you can’t expect final production-level quality from that, but even so, I’ve never seen any prototype or pre-production car built as poorly as this.
Discover Aitekx at the 2023 LA Auto Show, where cutting-edge technology meets automotive innovation! Experience the future of driving with their latest advancements. #AllRoadsLA #LAAutoShow pic.twitter.com/drMao8RMpW
— Los Angeles Auto Show (@LAAutoShow) November 22, 2023
If I made this in my driveway, I’d be proud as hell! But I’m not taking it to the LA Auto Show, and I’m not taking deposits on it, or promising it will go into production.
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Maybe Aitekx is legit. Maybe they’ll end up building top-quality Robotrucks by the thousands. Maybe everyone who dropped $100 on this thing will be thrilled when they get theirs in 2025 – you know, like 14 months from now. Who’s to say?
But, as it stands now, based on the look of the thing and the way the interactions went with Aitekx’ representatives, I’m not sure I’d suggest any breath holding.
Update: Based on this filing, and these photos, it seems like the person who would only identify himself as “Ed” is likely Edmund Shen. Big thanks to our friend Bozi for finding those.
It may resemble a Cybertruck, but it’s a cinch there’s no theft of intellectual property here.
In the “no sign of intelligent life here” sense?
No sign of actual engineering either.
Looks like they’re a couple of years old, or at least they registered their domain a couple of years ago.
According to whois the aitekx.com domain was registered on 2021-03-04 through Ionos.com which is a domain registration and website (wordpress) and email hosting provider.
You can see their original website on Internet Archive where they claim to be an innovative AI E-Mobility company that’s coming soon… with some vaguely automotive graphics with a ton of “cyber” liberally applied to the image.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211125103538/http://aitekx.com/#section1
Other than that the site was relatively spartan and remained untouched until about a week ago when they updated it with their Cybertru, excuse me, RoboTruck renders.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231116223334/https://aitekx.com/
On the email front they have their SPF and MX records set up (which only includes Ionos) but have not setup their DKIM or DMARC records.
Overall, I’d say the fact that the domain wasn’t registered last week gives them some legitimacy, they’ve been at this for a couple of years at least which means they have at least some runway and financial backing. I wish them the best of luck and if they need someone to help with the “cyber” stuff they know where to find me.
So, Company starts spinning in March 2021.
Mr. “No videos, please” used to be attached to Lordstown.
Lordstown Wiki:
Sounds like these guys are con-men rolling from one bad investment bait to a much worse one.
PURE coincidence, just like the design coincidence to the Cybertruck. Great catch guys folks!
Good catch, I didn’t think to connect those two.
As a former Ionos customer, I will confirm the MX and SPF records are automatically created when you register a domain and buy their “email” (hosting) package, so you can start sending email via Ionos under your own domain immediately. So that doesn’t tell us how involved Aitekx people have been in their web presence.
Ionos support can help you with DKIM and DMARC, but because those are more affirmative configurations chosen by the domain owner, it makes sense they don’t have it set up out of the box. The absence of those is more telling re. Aitekx internet technology and marketing savvy. Good find.
FWIW I have very few complaints about Ionos. They’ve been around for ages (formerly known as 1and1) as a large European registrar and hosting provider. Competitive prices, responsive support, stable email service (though I didn’t test their hosting plans).
So that’s what happened to 1and1. They used to market heavily on some of the sites that I would visit, but I hadn’t seen the name mentioned in years. Didn’t realize they became Ionos.
What I don’t remember is whether they were bought by a company named ionos or if they merely changed their name.
Say it with me – “Heim Joints are not a good way to connect control arms”
Yes They are valid for adjustable sway bar end links and certain other specialized aftermarket parts, based on application, but absolutely not for a production and pedestrian suspension system. There’s a lot of good reasons rubber bushings and ball joints are universally used, such as NVH, Longevity, Cost, manufacturability, etc
Im pretty sure heim joints are a perfectly legitimate way of connecting control arms, and the only reason oems don’t use them is because of the higher cost, higher maintenance requirements, and shorter life.
I have heim joint tension rods on my car which basically act as a control arm, mostly because the bushings on the old one were shot and I couldn’t find replacements with bushings in them at the time. They’re fine for road use but after only 4-ish years of nice weather only use on Detroit roads, they’re worn out and clunking.
No OEM could get away with putting something that wears out that quickly on a production car unless it’s some specialized track only/track mostly car where anyone buying it knows what they’re getting themselves into.
I’ve seen the real Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust in person and I’m pretty sure even that had better build quality than the Robotruck
That will look right at home in the drive-thru line at McDowell’s.
I’ll bet Ed wears a Rolax, too.
He does. I saw it when he bent down to tie the laces on his reebox.
Folex (or Fauxlex) as we like to call them in the watch industry.
“Tesla has the golden arches. Mine are the golden archs. “
They could use Eriq La Salle in their commercials, is he busy?
I was thinking Gary Busey
There’s an old cartoon that was originally printed in the New Yorker (I think) called “The Guy Who Invented The WEEL”.
It’s a single frame of a caveman standing next to what appears to be a wheel, stating: “No, it isn’t exactly the same as a wheel! Look, mine has a flower painted on it. If you want to use it like a wheel, that’s your business.”
EDIT: Found it! https://condenaststore.com/featured/the-guy-who-invented-the-weel-roz-chast.html
The batteries come from their Pornosonic joint venture Gigfactory.
With a name like that, surely you mean Giggityfactory?
Pornosonic Giggityfactory has an air of truthiness to it
Ha ha PRICELESS!
“We Interviewed Them And It Got Insanely Awkward”
Even the interview is on brand. Everyone got annoyed with Ms. Biljana Electronica getting switched around, but that is what ’90s Eurodance groups did with singers.
That’s a waste of a good Tacoma. This is so terrible that it makes Vinfast amazing in comparison.
I mean this is really almost African homemade helicopter-level bad.
I was amused that the “Ed note” really was a note about Ed
I love that Aitexk calls it “Configurable”. It is, in the sense that when you pull the body panels off you have a Tacoma underneath…
There’s a scene in The Jackal with Bruce Willis IIRC where he drives a van into a parking garage, sprays it with some kind of liquid, and the paint dissolves, revealing a different color that allows him to elude the po-po chasing him. This is the next level of that.
I wonder if a 1980 Hilux appears when you shed the Tacoma body panels.
Ha ha yeah, that was next level and if an 80′ Hilux appeared, even better!
(Also, that was a decent movie)
A turducken truck!
My dudes, I’m afraid that video went straight to Chinese intelligence to put you on watchlist and put the Autopian on blacklist in Chinese internet. I think you won’t be welcome in China anytime soon.
Damn, minus 5,000 social credits all around, I guess
Well, I guess we’re free to start posting Winnie the Pooh pics now.
I’ll bring the bing chilling!
A Chinese guy I work with, who has been in NZ 20+ years (but weirdly believes Chinese state propaganda that Covid came from the USA), stated that Winnie the Pooh pics are fine to be posted in China and showed me all the Pooh bears you can buy on Chinese-only online shopping sites. What he didn’t say is you can’t call Dictator Xi Winnie the Pooh or make that association.
Nothing a few glowing Changli reviews can’t fix.
Falun Gong.
There, now the site is blocked in China. You’re welcome.
Falun Gong vs. CCP
Exhibit A that sometimes, you could have assholes vs. assholes.
I’m fairly certain their drive unit is just a Tesla Large Drive Unit out of a model s…
I’m gonna say it again that I actually like this design over the Cybertruck, given the option of the two. Flat pieces of sheet metal don’t look good, and are not growing on me as time goes by. Texture and contrast are important.
I would agree that the renderings look better than the CT, but that is a subterranean bar to hurdle.
I agree! They should have gone the extra 100 meters and 3D printed some pieces, or had a body shop bend some custom pieces for them. It might not be any more useful than a Cybertruck, but it is the better looking vehicle.
Or the extra 100 millimeters and taken the Tacoma door handles off. It looks like that would solve most of the “I can fit my hand in the panel gap” problem.
Aww! Cmon! You think a Tech Bro owns a screwdriver???
If there’s one thing this monstrosity has in abundance, it’s texture.
Yeah, the design of it is more attractive, to be sure, but the execution?
Honestly, since it’s only a prototype and doesn’t even have road legal exterior lighting, they would have been better oft dumping the Tacoma body shell entirely and molding a fiberglass one to bolt to the chassis, ’70s kit car-style, but making a full size plug model for that, and producing a mold from that might actually have been beyond their capabilities
Yeah, the LED strips were grade A chefkiss. I am looking forward to watching the video when I get home. The hidden door handle is peek vapor. So much could have been done. I’m just glad this thing is getting more press than the CT, cause it really should, and that is sad.
They should sell the renders to Musk and use the money to refund the thirty or-so suckers who may have plonked down a deposit.
Oh, It’s got texture alright. Even patina.
Seems to me that the bodywork build quality is a result of forgetting to use dryer sheets when they were finishing up this load of money laundry.
LOL!!!
COTD
I almost one someone to actually put an order on one of these things just so we can see the entertaining and baffling rabbit hole that follows. Maybe it wouldn’t be as exciting as I think, but this is a fascinating move/grift from AITEKX.
Nothing like the Cybertruck. They have the Golden Arches this has the Golden Arcs. They have the Big Mac, AITEKX has the Big Mick. Also not a sesame seed in sight on this truck.
You win today! Now I’m hungry!
Dangit, you beat me to it.
Are you sure this isn’t just some sort of a “Performance Art” type exhibition, this is Los Angeles after all. I was really expecting Borat to come out at some point in the video
Very nice! I like!
This is my Robotruck. It is number four truck in all of Kazakhstan
Truck gets me many girls with big American hooters.
+ 1 for big hooters reference.
Maybe its Elon’s side project to inflate the optics on his Tesla truck.
Now there’s a conspiracy theory I can get behind.
The address on their trademark filing is a PO box in Fremont, California. We all know someone else who has an electric vehicle factory in Fremont.
Some
ancient alienelectric vehicle theorists believe that workers could have a side project in a tent in the parking lot. Wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened there.Next press release: “Cybertruck universally lauded as ‘World Class’.”
*In comparison to Robotruck
It would have been better for them to bring just a driveable rolling chassis to the show: put one seat in it for functionality and let people see the normally-hidden construction and drivetrain. That would have obviated all of the jankeriffic build quality issues along with the clone-vs-not-clone debate, and the conversation about the Aitekx would be very different.
Regarding their website: plurals and verbs are handled rather differently in Mandarin than they are in English, and they both tend to trip up native Mandarin speakers who are learning English.
Also PR guy needs to be better at his job. Telling two journalists who are looking at the thing that is in public that they’ve “seen enough” is ridiculous. Oh no, don’t let that get out on to the Internet!
While I agree that bringing a naked chassis would be a better way to show off the parts of this prototype that are actually impressive, it probably wouldn’t catch the eye of the average auto show attendee. In this case, that’s probably a good thing because what does catch the eye here is overwhelmingly negative. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but in this case I disagree. Nothing about this makes me want to plunk down a deposit or to invest in this company.
And, yeah, English is hard, but that’s why you don’t hire someone for whom English is a second language to write your press copy. It’ll make your website look like my email spam folder, and that’s not a good look when you’re asking for someone’s hard-earned cash. That quantity of errors would earn a middle-school student a D- with a disappointed “See me after class” message at the top of the paper; it’s completely unacceptable coming from a real company (especially a US-based one where translations shouldn’t be an issue).
Now that I think about it, the abysmal writing is probably the most disappointing bit of this whole thing. Cars are hard to build, prototypes are often shoddily put together, and breaking into a new industry is challenging — but there’s no excuse to have so many mistakes in the writing that is meant to represent the company.
Yeah, they’re (ostensibly) a US-based company, and presumably have more than one native English speaker working for them, would not have been a big deal to just ask one guy in the office to give the text a quick perusal before going live
Even hiring an actual editor to proofread their website would have cost, at most, $150.
(Source: I proofread journal articles as a side hustle.)
I have three native-English-speaking guys with bachelor’s degrees (Engineering, Architecture) who all write worse than this. None can write even a single sentence that doesn’t contain several errors; I am not even talking about conveying meaning.
Hopefully it’s not too late for them to get their money back on those degrees.
Yeah. Can confirm. Seems to occur in certain strains of baccalaureates.
My current strategy is to sterilize the Petri dish and reinnoculate.
I agree–I feel they would’ve done better with a clay model ‘roller’ or non functional clay model. At the very least, throw a cloth over the vehicle, turn those LEDs on full brightness and give it an air of mystery or something
As a native mandarin speaker, +1 on plurals and verbs. Unlike English, Mandarin has no conjugation, no definite article (aka “The”), no gendered pronouns (he/she is the same word in spoken Mandarin) and pluralizing a noun done by specifying a quantity and category unless it’s a pronoun. For whatever reason, they say APP as three english letters rather than a single word ‘App’ like we do, hence the capitalization on the website.
They should hire me for like $100 to clean up their marketing materials or something
As a non-native Mandarin speaker, thank you. 🙂
You’re welcome!
Total sidetrack–Mandarin also has no universal words for Yes or No. I’ve never looked up the actual rules, but off the top of my head, an affirmative (“yes”) is done by responding with the verb, and negative response (“No”) is done by inserting one of the two ‘negation’ words, depending on if you’re negating a noun or verb
It would look something like this:
Q: Is this your truck?
Affirmative response: “Is” (Yes)
Negative response: “Not is” (No)
That’s also where the “Do Not Want” meme comes from–Chinese subtitles were translated word for word into English in a bootleg copy of Revenge of the Sith and “Noooooooo!” got turned into “Do not want”
Sorry, I should have been more clear: I speak Mandarin 马 马 虎 虎 的 but I am not a native speaker. 🙂
Re the subtitle – 不要!!! 😀
There is so much “Is” with “Do Not Want” from revenge of the sith 🙂
A group of voice actors and a production company voice acted and redubbed the entire movie with the Engrish dialogue… you can find it on youtube under “Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West”
They did a really good job preserving the sfx, too
You’re welcome!
Total sidetrack–Mandarin lacks a universal word for Yes and No. I’ve never looked up the formal explanation, but off the top of my head affirmatives (“yes”) are done by responding with the verb, and negative responses (“No”) are done by inserting one of the two ‘negation’ words before the verb or noun
It would look something like this:
Q: Is this your truck?
Affirmative response: “Is” (Yes)
Negative response: “Not is” (No)
That’s also where the “Do Not Want” meme comes from–Chinese subtitles were translated word for word into English in a bootleg copy of Revenge of the Sith and “Noooooooo!” got turned into “Do not want”
On the flipside, I read somewhere on BBC News about math for Chinese speakers. Because numerical strings can be pronounced with far fewer consonants in Chinese than in Western languages, Chinese students can process math substantially quicker than their Western counterparts.
So you gain some, you lose some.
I’d be curious to see if the research behind the BBC article accounts for how math is taught and what their sample groups looked like.
I can count faster and more accurately in Chinese vs English and I was taught multiplication by memorizing sequences of numbers in Chinese, like “3-4-12, 3-5-15” so doing multiplication for me is like recalling letters of the alphabet
I also learned both the US and Asian methods of doing algebra and polynomial math and while The US methods were easier to understand and learn, the Asian methods was faster to do
the incredibly diversity of random / specific knowledge in the comments is why i scroll the ENTIRE thread almost every article.
I feel like they could have just called this a “mockup” rather than a “prototype” and saved themselves some grief. And also, uhh, maybe exhibited it somewhere other than the LA Auto Show.
Well, everybody likes to complain about Tesla quality, service, etc.
These guys beat them on almost every aspect. The bad ones at least.
Maybe this is a Tesla plant to make Elon’s junk look good in comparison?
From what I understand, if you pretend Elon’s junk looks good you might get a horse.
The Mothers of his kids would like to have a “word” with you about that.
I’d take a horse over children, they got a raw deal.
Their expectation of positive press really reinforces the theory that they bought the spot at the auto show in a bid for preorder money on a product they don’t plan to build.
“I know the quality is really bad, but we’re gonna get press coverage and they have to be positive about people at the show. We’ll get a bunch of preorders and disappear.”
Well, Liz Carmichael did have 10 kids…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Century_Motor_Car_Corporation
That explains the reticence regarding Ed’s last name.
She was at least an effective salesperson, a con artist, but a successful con artist
That’s a deep cut. Nicely played.
Changli Digitruck! Changli Digitruck! Changli Digitruck!
Do it Torch! C’mon make it happen!
I feel like Tommy Wiseau is behind this
As a career PR guy this made me cringe in every way possible. I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve talked to that had some grand idea or product that was going to revolutionize the world… while they were at best blowing smoke up everyone’s ass or at worst, using it as a platform to grab investor commitments.
Props to Jason and Torch for reporting on this – you guys were very polite, and took a safe approach but still opted to do your part to spread the word.
> Jason and Torch
The dynamic solo
Styling wise it may be an improvement in the cybertruck…
Is that a typo or a meta-commentary on the Robotruck website attention to detail?
It’s literally your job to ensure they can get lots of
scam moneypreorders for theirgarbagesoon-to-be-great product. Didn’t you know that?Then again, commenters on most automotive sites assure me that companies pay for any positive reviews, so it’s on them for not offering
a bribemonetary compensation for your great promotional work.It’s almost like they forgot they were dealing with the media, and not propagandists.
To be fair, it is hard to tell the difference these days.
But many people are saying that all members of the media are propagandists.
And it’s impossible to know who to believe: sure, it’s bad according to every member of the media who reported on and photographed this thing, but a guy who won’t give his last name said they should say nice things about it.
The renderings make the Cybertruck look old fashioned and too simple, but the build quality of this thing? Even Stevie Wonder is rolling his eyes…