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Old 04-03-24, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by AJT123
If it has 4x4 it is..... I'd avoid buying Capstone for it when there's a TRD, but all trucks are built tough for off roading and work. That's why we like them. I personally don't get buying a truck with no 4x4, but they still sell like crazy because they're tough and people like them.
They are too long and have way too long a wheelbase to be good offroad. A crew cab F150 has a 145 inch wheelbase. Over 20 inches longer than the one on my S560, and 23 inches longer than an Expedition.
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Originally Posted by SW17LS
They are too long and have way too long a wheelbase to be good offroad. A crew cab F150 has a 145 inch wheelbase. Over 20 inches longer than the one on my S560, and 23 inches longer than an Expedition.
Yes but there are more styles than crew cabs. But I know. There are several off road focused 1500s.

A crew cab could handle anything in the wide open though. Dirt, mud, jumps, whatever.
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Originally Posted by AJT123
Yes but there are more styles than crew cabs. But I know. There are several off road focused 1500s.

A crew cab could handle anything in the wide open though. Dirt, mud, jumps, whatever.
Almost all passenger trucks sold are crew cabs, and thats what compares to the Cybertruck. Cybertruck could handle all those things too.

A 1/2 ton pickup is just not what somebody buys when they want an offroad vehicle specifically.
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True, a Jeep Wrangler or other purpose-designed off-roader will always go places a half-ton is not capable of getting to. That said, the half-tons still have a lot more capability than a lot of the owners are using them for. But I come from an area where people actually DO use trucks as trucks and off-roaders.

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Originally Posted by FrankReynoldsCPA
. But I come from an area where people actually DO use trucks as trucks and off-roaders.
Same here! We exist!!
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Originally Posted by Hameed
Lol we had the Oldsmobile version. It was fast for the time with the 3800. Lots of pickup.
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@Hameed I can see the likeness your daughter is insisting about.
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Finally saw my first one last week while in Austin.

We drove by this house again and saw that they had 3 more Tesla's in the driveway.

We then saw a couple more CT's on a Tesla hauler while driving back. No pic's. I still don't see the appeal, but to each their own.
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I still don't see the appeal, but to each their own.
it's for the instagram "look at me" crowd.
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Originally Posted by Mike728
Finally saw my first one last week while in Austin.

We drove by this house again and saw that they had 3 more Tesla's in the driveway.

We then saw a couple more CT's on a Tesla hauler while driving back. No pic's. I still don't see the appeal, but to each their own.
This is a vehicle for the Bling Bling, instagram crowd. To me, it was a stupid decision, especially with this design, 80's video game ugly. IMO, Tesla would have been better off putting their resources in the Model 2
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I still somehow haven't seen one in person, despite Teslas being huge in Vegas.

We did pass one on the way back from a meeting last week, but I was looking down at my phone and missed it(I was a passenger).
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Originally Posted by Mike728
Finally saw my first one last week while in Austin.

We drove by this house again and saw that they had 3 more Tesla's in the driveway.

We then saw a couple more CT's on a Tesla hauler while driving back. No pic's. I still don't see the appeal, but to each their own.
I was wondering if the house had the Tesla roof, and according to the listing, it does. I'm not sure what Cybertruck means, but maybe they're giving it away with the house.


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I hear these are having massive problems, and don't shoot the messenger. Consensus seems that it was rushed out.

Owners are apparently furious, they've stopped making them temporarily because the gas pedal cover or something can mat it to the floor, that's the latest.



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