Cybertruck durability test

[Jrgunn5150]

I guess this is how you afford to trash stuff like that.

And merch, and sponsorships.

I have a monetized Youtube channel, and a day job. I write all my Youtube expenses off on my taxes.

I imagine if I were making literally tens of thousands a month, I'd really look for write offs.

I'd be buying supercars and wrecking them and airports and all the other nonsense too.

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[fourfa]

They cast aluminum subframe ripping apart the minute the recovery roped an F150 with it is a significant failure.

Snatching another truck from an obstacle is a normal use of a truck.

Absolutely true, though I'd hope that anyone NOT trying to destroy things would use a dynamic (elastic) recovery ROPE to snatch. Not CHAIN as shown. Shock loading chain is guaranteed to break things. Which is probably what they wanted.

No excuse though for brittle aluminum subframe in the towing load path

 

[Wheelin98TJ]

And merch, and sponsorships.

I have a monetized Youtube channel, and a day job. I write all my Youtube expenses off on my taxes.

I imagine if I were making literally tens of thousands a month, I'd really look for write offs.

I'd be buying supercars and wrecking them and airports and all the other nonsense too.

But those write offs still cost you more money than they save you.

He's doing it because it's what's getting him noticed and paid.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

But those write offs still cost you more money than they save you.

He's doing it because it's what's getting him noticed and paid.

I'm not making a net profit from youtube, if thats what you mean.

Offsetting my income with fuel, tool, consumable, meal, etc etc write offs is pretty sweet, since it's all stuff I'm doing anyway lol.

Of course he does it because it get's him paid, that's the incentive. but it's not like he eats the cost, he just writes it off and moves on.

 

[Wheelin98TJ]

I'm not making a net profit from youtube, if thats what you mean.

Offsetting my income with fuel, tool, consumable, meal, etc etc write offs is pretty sweet, since it's all stuff I'm doing anyway lol.

Of course he does it because it get's him paid, that's the incentive. but it's not like he eats the cost, he just writes it off and moves on.

$100k of "write offs" is only worth $37k if you're in the very top tax bracket.

Example with #s:

1. You buy a $100k truck.
2. Your taxable income is $100k before buying the truck.
3. After writing off the truck, taxable income is now $0.
4. Income Tax liability is $0.
5. Without write off, tax liability would've been approximately $17,400.

So you spent $100k and saved $17,400 in tax.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

I'm not spending anything like 100k on a truck lmao.

And FFS, I'm not saying tax write offs are the primary reason to destroy a truck, I'm just saying, on his income of much more than 100k, he just writes it off. What would you care when you make that in a month anyway? You wouldn't. Wreck it, make even more than you spent on it on views and merch, and write the thing off. It's simply a consumable to a channel that large.

That's all.

 

[BearFootSam]

The elon's groupie boys on twitter were all alight that the test wasn't fair, that any truck would have failed the snatch after landing on the rear end coming off an obstacle. But of course, most trucks have steel frames and while they would have incurred damage, landing on a trailer hitch is not an edge case scenario. How many times have gladiators come down hard on the hitch? I've bonked it a few times, I'm sure quite a few of you have done much worse, and the only cracked frames we've seen publicized came after jumping whoops with a trailer in tow.

My problem with the CT is that it hasn't decided what it wants to be when it grows up. They advertise immense acceleration and deft handling from a rigid frame, wants to be a sports car. But it also wants to be a truck, and some flex and ductility are desirable in a truck frame, it lends resilience and durability. Most truck makers seem to strike a balance between the two, generally weighted more towards the truck stuff.

The glued-on body panels, cast aluminum frame and piss poor visibility position the CT as more a super-CUV than a real truck or SUV. I'm sure it's fun in snow, does the duty commuting or grocery shopping, and might make a good weekend camping rig. But I wouldn't put the truck to work duty as a matter of course and expect that it will stand up well. Comparatively, I've used my jeep hard, my kid crashes into it with his scooter, my wife hit a deer, we've carried tens of thousands of pounds of cargo over the past couple years and it is still solid and looking no worse for wear.

 

[Sweetums]

Naw dude. You gotta watch the one where he buys a model matching Komatsu Dozer to the Kill Dozer and then proceeds to tow it through the town that the OG killdozer terrorized. Peak YT right there. He also sets Ferraris on fire and own an M1 Abrams with a functional turret/gun.

Trolling people and destroying things isn't what I would call good entertainment. I mean, if you buy a beater and beat on it, that's one thing. I saw a thumbnail for a guy who bought an all-original low-miles nearly museum quality Chevy square body and destroyed it for the views; I just don't understand that mentality. I don't care about breaking something that's new because it can be replaced, but no one is making original vintage cars anymore.

Maybe I'm the one who is broken, if I have something that can't be replaced, I kind of see myself as a steward of that thing. My job is to care for it until it's journey can continue with another steward; if I destroy that artifact of history, I've failed.
That doesn't mean I won't use it, but I care for it while I do. Kind of like those guys that race million-dollar vintage cars; the most expensive crash I ever saw was a Jaguar E-type caving in the rear quarter of a Ferrari 250 GTO. Those are both race cars doing what they are supposed to do, but those owners will also repair that damage and it's another chapter in the car's history. That's a little different than destruction for the sake of destruction.

 

[Hootbro]

Trolling people and destroying things isn't what I would call good entertainment. I mean, if you buy a beater and beat on it, that's one thing. I saw a thumbnail for a guy who bought an all-original low-miles nearly museum quality Chevy square body and destroyed it for the views; I just don't understand that mentality. I don't care about breaking something that's new because it can be replaced, but no one is making original vintage cars anymore.

Do not take this the wrong way, but you are not his target demographic and he does not care if he has your clicks and views. He has the 14-35 single male demographic that likes to see outlandish stuff and his sponsors and the ad space YT sells against it like it also. Does not have to make sense to you, just financial sense to him that generates the views and clicks on his YT channel.

20+ years ago if someone said you can make money posting videos of yourself reacting to other people's content and blowing up stuff, most would have thought you were crazy, but here we are.

 

[Jefe1018]

And merch, and sponsorships.

I have a monetized Youtube channel, and a day job. I write all my Youtube expenses off on my taxes.

I imagine if I were making literally tens of thousands a month, I'd really look for write offs.

I'd be buying supercars and wrecking them and airports and all the other nonsense too.

Curious about the space you’re in.

 

[ecidiego]

I've never watched this channel before and I probably never will again. What a tool, is he trying to be a walking example of everything wrong with online video content?

He is an insufferable douchebag

 

[TheSolarWizard]

Please don't say it's true! That you actually own a piece of shit like that! Or that they share the same garage!

Theyve never been in the same garage but yes I do own one. I have several lightnings i use for work so I knew the general up and downsides to an ev pickup on the front end.

If it wasn’t having issues it’d be my favorite DD ever

 

[PuddleJumper]

Trolling people and destroying things isn't what I would call good entertainment. I mean, if you buy a beater and beat on it, that's one thing. I saw a thumbnail for a guy who bought an all-original low-miles nearly museum quality Chevy square body and destroyed it for the views; I just don't understand that mentality. I don't care about breaking something that's new because it can be replaced, but no one is making original vintage cars anymore.

Maybe I'm the one who is broken, if I have something that can't be replaced, I kind of see myself as a steward of that thing. My job is to care for it until it's journey can continue with another steward; if I destroy that artifact of history, I've failed.
That doesn't mean I won't use it, but I care for it while I do. Kind of like those guys that race million-dollar vintage cars; the most expensive crash I ever saw was a Jaguar E-type caving in the rear quarter of a Ferrari 250 GTO. Those are both race cars doing what they are supposed to do, but those owners will also repair that damage and it's another chapter in the car's history. That's a little different than destruction for the sake of destruction.

I was being sarcastic. I also don't condone tearing shit up for no reason. however i tend to treat these things as, not my monkey, not my money and not my zoo. I think his appeal lies in the fact that there are alot of the younger generations who feel they can never afford or attain these vehicles. So when Whistlin Deisel tears em up and pisses off the purist snobs, collectors, and manufacturers alike. A lot of his followers feel like he's sticking it to the man. Kinda like the fox who curses the grapes out of his reach.

 

[Sweetums]

I was being sarcastic. I also don't condone tearing shit up for no reason. however i tend to treat these things as, not my monkey, not my money and not my zoo. I think his appeal lies in the fact that there are alot of the younger generations who feel they can never afford or attain these vehicles. So when Whistlin Deisel tears em up and pisses off the purist snobs, collectors, and manufacturers alike. A lot of his followers feel like he's sticking it to the man. Kinda like the fox who curses the grapes out of his reach.

I don't disagree, and like I said before, I don't care about the truck in this case; Tesla will build another one. Nothing of value has been lost. What really bugs me is this same attitude applied to a classic that once gone, is gone forever.

I'm all for sticking it to the man, but this is like not being able to afford a Monet so you support someone burning it.

 

[Hootbro]

I have been in some collector circles were there is unspoken minority that secretly wishes other peoples collectable get defaced, destroyed or lobbies against new ones being made as it makes the remaining that much more valuable.

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