The Delorean was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Bertone and, like the Tesla Cybertruck, has an unpainted stainless steel body, though several were plated with 24kt gold. Petrolicious is a leading automotive lifestyle brand providing world class short films and tasteful editorial around the world’s finest classic vehicles. The downside may be that it makes every other Tesla vehicle look kind of boring. The anonymous couple had no idea what they had purchased—neither had seen a Bond flick before—so they sought the expertise of Ian Fleming Foundation founder Doug Redenius, who later authenticated the vehicle. The RoboCop theme is cool, no doubt, but as an actual production vehicle, I find it comical. Nothing about any Tesla up to this point has defied convention stylistically, minus the Xs falconcrest rear doors anyway, they are pretty typical attractive designs of the era. Amazingly, all of them are drastically more conservative than the real thing. Most of them were positive although some were a little more hesitant than others. It must weigh a significant amount. The boomerang was of course a concept car, released in 1971, but really started the trend for this future forward shape. What a comprehensive article, Paul! The Cybertruck needs a wind-cheating form to foster battery range, ... Gordon Murray, Peter Stevens, and Giorgetto Giugiaro—voted the DS the most beautiful car of all time. And a lot of other once-shocking cars. Also FCA actually manufactured a hybrid Durango and Aspen for two seconds and much like GM, gave up. But here’s the thing: depending on their socio-geographic-political orientation, if they’re “Tesla folks” they won’t likely be walking into a Ford dealership. While the shockingly unconventional design is what has everyone talking right now about the Tesla Cybertruck, there are a few conversations that are going to take on some more importance the closer it gets to production (if it gets there at all). I love the Mustang Mach E. This, not at all. Aha; the car that essentially defined the origami school of design. But this is no typical Body-On-Frame (BOF) truck. Unlike the Cybertruck, however, the Delorean had a chassis and the body panels were a thinner covering rather than providing the structure of the car. Awful. If you want to read more of the history of Giorgetto Giugiaro’s 1971 concept that led to the production Esprit, I happened to find one on the streets of Eugene and wrote it up here. Remarkably, Musk gave him the go ahead to try a second time. Ford seems to be the most committed to EV’s. The Tesla Cybertruck prototype debuted in 2019, and in the future of 2019, ... or something from Giorgetto Giugiaro. You’ve nailed it with the CitiCar. Musk has said that Giorgetto Giugiaro’s design served as inspiration for Tesla’s recently unveiled Cybertruck, which has a similar geometric design. This will never take the place of traditional pickup trucks. . So the big question is how’s the Cybertruck going to be accepted and will it sell? 2b. – The corollary to price is cost – you have a body material that is 3-4 times the thickness of standard truck steel/Al. +1 Reminds me of the cockpit of a stealth jet. I am steadfastly in the anti electric vehicle side of things. If you missed the reveal, here’s a handy 5 minute edited version. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, This Engineer Built a Real 'Star Wars' Lightsaber, We're Shook By Japan's 65-Foot Tall Godzilla, The Best Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix Right Now, Why the X-Wing Is Such a Badass Spaceplane, Please Leave AI Out of the Movie Business, Deepfake YouTuber Fixed De-Aging in 'The Irishman', Karen Roe from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK/Creative Commons. Styling is wild. Pretty sure that’s a fake picture. Look at things like the Aston Martin Rapide, it works very well although in the abstract it seems wrong. And no, I’m not dreaming. This pickup intrigues me mightily in a number of ways. If the special glass was cheaper it’d be used in every car so clearly it just adds cost. 1. Half the M3 buyers are coming from Civics and Priuses. The biggest issue I see is that it isn’t actually that original, like you I instantly connected it to these wedgy late 60s-70s concepts, and I’d also include the Countach in production cars. I mean, they had to have tested for that, no? I’m a fairly recent convert to YouTube (Netflix be damned), and many Tesla & new tech channels were there (Teslanomics, Everyday Astronaut, Now You Know, Sean Mitchell, Marques Brownlee), some of them excitedly talking to each other. The price is right. The vehicle was shipped to Florida-based Perry Oceanographic, where it was retrofitted with ballast tanks, four propellers, water-tight batteries and, of course, its famous fins. That’s the increasing reality as all automotive brands increasingly are ever-more associated with the various tribes of our land. 2c. The Futuristic 100-Knot Superboat That Never Was. Looks like a reject from a very early 3D video game where everything had to be super blocky and unshaded for the CPU to handle. A Lotus PR manager strategically parked a pre-production model of the vehicle outside of Pinewood Studios, where the movie was being filmed; it immediately caught the eye of Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli. Stainless steel is a wonderful material – durable, easy to clean, attractive. The Cybertruck is a pickup with a "vault" instead of a bed. Those taillights are not legal, they can’t be on the tailgate. I’m not sure that’s a good thing. Tesla currently produces a very expensive luxury liftback sedan, an even more expensive weird looking liftback SUV that’s overly complex, a right-sized sedan when supposedly nobody is buying sedans but people flock to the M3 although it could be a liftback and thus more practical without changing the shape…, and soon a liftbackish small CUV. Yes, I know that CC’s Jason Shafer will defend them eloquently for their multifold usefulness, but there’s no doubt an ever-larger percentage of them are being bought by city folks who most likely will not be using them to tow, haul or go off-roading. That’s not exactly a good thing, climatically speaking. A meme I saw on Facebook earlier today compared the Cybertruck to a mid-century Eichler house crossed with a DeLorean. In all my many years, never has anyone put something so uncompromising into production, and as a truck, no less. Not surprising, as Musk is all about space travel, determined to send humans to Mars, and he launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space, where it’s still exploring the solar system with its dummy driver. This thing make the Pontiac Aztek look good. Tesla is fully committed to electric vehicles and are swimming in the “deep end” with their technology. Reminds me of a DeLorean that accidentally went through the dryer. The Delorean was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Bertone and, like the Tesla Cybertruck, has an unpainted stainless steel body, though several were plated with 24kt gold. The origami school of design was never one of my favorite design languages at the best of times, but this is an abomination. I feel like Tesla is a one idea company and apart from their revolutionary motor technology they have been muddling through from one stunt to another. However, in these virtual times for which it is designed, it is appropriately faceless, shiny, attention-seeking, crass and (inherently) empty. This content is imported from YouTube. it’s hard to imagine that this is going to go into production in it’s current form. Your email address will not be published. To my eye, it’s quite crude, and the dimensions are bizarre. In the 1989 sequel, the hero uses the DeLorean DMC-12 “time car” to travel through time and space. BTW, that Bollinger is a dead ringer for the old Land Rover shape right down to the angled rear shut-line of the rear doors. FCA owned GEM from December of 2000 until July 2011, I get that battery tech and computer tech was not then what it is today, but what would FCA look like today if they had turned GEM loose on converting a Chrysler PT Cruiser and Plymouth Prowler into an EV or hybrid and kept refining it? Day by day, I feel ever more like I am living in the future and this truck just pushed that feeling ahead by about a decade. Bankers and real estate types will be driving the Rivian. That’s not say I want one, as I have no use for such a thing. We wonder what Lotus has to say about it. I cannot imagine in my wildest dreams a farmer who lives somewhere in the Midwest ever buying one of these. As to being unrealistic, I think back to the famous over a century old Henry Ford comment, “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”. As they drove, they were bombarded by a barrage of truck drivers commenting on the curious car over CB radio. Of course I was also familiar with the great dream cars of the ’50s and early ’60s from Detroit, but mostly only retrospectively. I have several issues with the truck and after thinking about it for a large part of the day, here goes: 1. The Cybertruck is the Donald Trump of the pickup world. If Musk can make a grumpy old fart like me stop and go “wow!” he may just be on to something. Except for the sharply peaked roof on the Cybertruck, I’m seeing a lot of influence here. Instead of building a wall at the side of the truck, Tesla could have built a door. Is Tesla’s pickup the new Ram, so to speak?