Tesla CEO Elon Musk personally thinks the company’s Cybertruck is Tesla’s “best product ever,” but he wasn’t sure many other people would like its futuristic design. (via CNBCMakeIt)
. The car was used in the 1977 James Bond movie, "The Spy Who Loved Me."
"I told the team, 'Listen, if nobody wants to buy this, we could always make one that looks like the other trucks.' Like 'OK, that was a weird failure, but now we'll make one that looks like the others,'" he said on the podcast."A lot of reasons why people buy pickup trucks in the U.S. is because it's the most bad-ass truck. Which one's the toughest truck?" he said on the podcast. So "what's tougher than a truck? A tank.
"How do you out-tough a truck? You make a futuristic armored personnel carrier. It's gonna be pretty special and not like other things," he said. Musk said his "inspiration board" for the pickup also included the movies "'Blade Runner,' 'Mad Max,' 'Back to the Future,' 'Aliens' – that's why it looks like that."
"You want to have these things that inspire people and feels different," Musk said on the podcast. "Everything else is the same, like variations on the same theme."At the Cybertruck's unveiling, Tesla's chief designer, Franz Von Holzhausen, threw a metal ball at one the Cybertruck's
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