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But there could be more to it. As an automotive expert suggests, the Cybertruck's shoddiness may actually be what endears it to its edgy buyers.
"The people drawn to don't have quality of construction or safety at the top of mind," Ivan Drury, director of insights at the automotive inventory company Edmunds,Cybertruck buyers are people "who think 'I don't care if I kill people when I drive this thing down the street,'" he added.
But that amount is already alarming. Harl Brauer, an executive analyst at iSeeCars, estimates that the Cybertruck's tally of six recalls make it "worse than 91 percent" of all other 2024 vehicles.Yet according to Drury, Cybertruck owners don't pay attention to details like that. In fact, you can more or less sum up their ethos as a giant "fuck you" to sound car-buying wisdom.
"Cybertruck customers are in it for the stares and glares — they don't care about how many times going to be recalled over 30 years," Drury told"A standard auto customer wants to know if a car will last 10 years or will be ongoing good value for money," he added. "A Cybertruck customer doesn't care about any of that. Owning a Cybertruck isn't practical; it's a boast.
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