Changing Hearts and Minds

[ChronoDog]

Before I bought my CT almost every friend I told about had something negative to say and almost all said they hated the look and thought it was ugly. This was kind of surprising to me as I always thought they looked kind of cool. One friend made a great comment about how his kids loved it and every time they saw one they went nuts and said that he thought it was ugly but it had some kind of kid like draw on him. I think basically every adult male has some childlike part of them that secretly loves the CT no matter what they say.

Point of this post is that after I got the truck all my friends wanted to see it and take a ride. FOUR of the first 6 i took out for a ride had a sudden change of heart and were like "this thing is awesome, I want one". One had just purchased a new corvette and is seriously thinking about selling it to buy a CT. Since then at least 3 of 4 that i have taken out in it absolutely loved it and changed their minds about it. The more exposure these get the more popular they will become IMHO.

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[koolio]

I had a very similar experience when I let a friend drive mine. He didn’t like it, thought it was ugly, drove it…a week later he says to me that it’s a very cool vehicle. And I’m pretty sure the looks have grown on him.

Was recently at a friend’s family event in NJ and several people asked who’s Cybertruck was in the lot. People were excited about it, one asked me to drive it to her house so she can show her kids and neighbors, the other said “Niice!”

 

[C4b00b]

Friends who get seat time in mine are impressed by the smooth ride and power, as well as the massive fuel cost savings for vehicle this size. I have a few who are seriously considering this but are put off by the pricing. It will be interesting to see what happens after the EV credit expires.

 

[megamind]

I figured there are 2 types of people who absolutely won’t like the truck no matter what:
1. Musk haters - no matter how much you convince them on how awesome the truck is they will keep going back to Elon.
2. People who are jealous of you - these would keep trying hard to dump on you on what a grave mistake you did buying the truck. And if you bring up one small thing that you don’t like about it in front of them, god help you!

 

[HaulingAss]

I figured there are 2 types of people who absolutely won’t like the truck no matter what:
1. Musk haters - no matter how much you convince them on how awesome the truck is they will keep going back to Elon.
2. People who are jealous of you - these would keep trying hard to dump on you on what a grave mistake you did buying the truck. And if you bring up one small thing that you don’t like about it in front of them, god help you!

There is a third class of people who are also very slow to change their minds. These people think they know a lot about cars in general. They have been convinced by the media that EVs are terrible joke forced upon us by the government, that they are less environmental than a gas vehicle, that the Cybertruck is poorly engineered, poorly manufactured and unreliable. That it can't do real work and that it costs over $100K. You can show them the Dual Motor for under $80K, but they still think it's too much for such a crappy vehicle. They don't understand the powertrain is designed to last over 500,000 miles and the body doesn't get door ding, dents, scratches and rust, at least not in the same way a legacy pickup will.

The media has been very effective at misinforming them about every aspect of EVs. What it comes down to is that many people are sheeple, very gullible to what they are told, particularly if it's what they want to hear to begin with.

But the most fascinating people to me are those who think Musk is a bad person, set out to destroy humanity for his financial gain. That he is an evil Nazi and fascist billionaire who only cares about his vast wealth. These people are also gullible victims of the media. Final conclusion:

The media is more culpable than anyone in the false narratives people believe. But, in the end, people have to take responsibility for their own gullibility. Just because someone tells you something doesn't mean you can turn off your power of reasoning. It's scary how gullible people have become. These are the people who serve the ugly billionaires pushing these narratives to extend the life of their financial empires at the cost of country and the people.

I measure the wealth of a person not by how much net worth they have created, but by how much they spend, and what they spend it on. By this measure Elon is not even a real billionaire, all of his wealth is concentrated in the ownership of the companies he is growing, and those companies are designed to serve the needs of the people, to push civilization towards a better future, to solve the biggest problems facing humanity. He is the most principled billionaire I know of, regardless of how much the media lies about who he is, and what he stands for. If all he wanted to do was become wealthy, he would have quit when he made his first $100 million from the sale of PayPal, not rolled it all into two business that were unlikely to succeed, auto-making and a private rocket company. And he wouldn't have spent $40 billion on a social media company - he only did that because he saw how a small group of people (billionaires and the federal government) were taking away people's voice by censoring speech they disagreed with. He understood this was the path to the scary Orwellian future he had read about when he was a child. Elon is one of the few helping us to avoid that future, we need more like him.

 

[megamind]

Thanks for proving my point #1

 

[Jacob]

I had a guy and his wife the other day wait in the parking lot at Staples (in his rusty SUV) for me to come out of the store, just to tell me that he's been a mechanic for almost 30 years and that my truck is the most idiotic car that's ever been built. I asked him how many Cybertrucks he's ever worked on. "Well, I haven't personally but everyone on YouTube says how bad they are built and fall apart constantly. It's in the news also that it gets stuck constantly and can catch fire."
I thanked him for the "heads up" and as I drove away wondered how easy it must be to influence some people's thoughts to the point that they take time out of their lives to "inform" people of their "superior knowledge" having no idea what they're talking about except what they've heard on YouTube or (even worse) Facebook.

 

[CyberGus]

take time out of their lives to "inform" people of their "superior knowledge" having no idea what they're talking about except what they've heard on YouTube or (even worse) Facebook.

Every single time I take out the DeLorean, someone will stop and tell me “hey, did you know the absolutely true fact that [insert absolutely false information here]?”

Every. Single. Time.

 

[Sjohnson20]

Social media has made everyone an expert on everything. A lot of the time they wrong. It's just how it is. In the old days we had urban legends and rumors. Now it's spread digitally.

 

[Sjohnson20]

I figured there are 2 types of people who absolutely won’t like the truck no matter what:
1. Musk haters - no matter how much you convince them on how awesome the truck is they will keep going back to Elon.
2. People who are jealous of you - these would keep trying hard to dump on you on what a grave mistake you did buying the truck. And if you bring up one small thing that you don’t like about it in front of them, god help you!

3rd group is EV haters. They are very hard to convert. Some are hardcore full blown never buy an EV and some are just scared to change and learn about them.

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