I am starting to see them more and more. The first time I saw one of these mobile neo-cubist abstract sculptures, I didn't know if it was a randomly folded pile of sheet metal, a rolling dumpster, or some joke put together by some sixth grader who took his little brother's cartoon drawing of a car, and decided to build the thing out of scrap metal lying around. "What the heck is that folded rolling pile of crap?" I exclaimed after seeing one, for the first time, on the street last summer.
"Oh, it's the new Tesla Cybertruck." my buddy replied.
"Wait.... wait you mean it's actually SUPPOSED to look like that? They are actually mass producing copies of that ridiculous thing?" I asked.
"Well, look at it this way... maybe they built it so that Pontiak Aztek, Nissan Frog,(Juke) and BMW I3 owners wouldn't feel so self conscious," he replied.
So now I'm seeing more and more of these wretched looking eyesores. A rolling joke, that makes you want to just throw rocks at it. I admit, with more and more cars looking alike, these things do look distinctive. Obviously not in a good way.
When I visited family over the holidays, I saw a crap ton of these things on the road. Luckily I did not throw rocks at them. But I did cringe inwardly when I saw one. And I only saw two Mercedes "Cats" the entire time. That made me sad. Mercedes "Cats" make me smile, and feel warm and fuzzy, because the cars look like warm, fuzzy critters. But lets face it, there just aren't that many of them still running after all these years. Instead, we get rolling dumpsters that look like big piles of randomly folded sheet metal.
Now, to all those Cybertruck owners out there, I apologize- I can understand there are valid reasons for owning one. Yes, they are very safe. You don't have to buy gas, better for your wallet and for the planet. They have all the latest high-tech googads and gismets. And unless your neighbor has one, you will have the distinction of owning a vehicle that looks nothing like anyone else's on the block. But to each their own. I obviously would never buy one. If anyone out there has an old 1976-1985 Mercedes "Cat" in their garage, let me know.
