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# Cybertruck Sales Crash So Hard, Tesla’s Now Offering… Cloth Seats
- URL: https://www.thebarbedwire.com/cybertruck-elon-musk-tesla/
- Published: 2025-04-16T08:44:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-16T08:44:00.000Z
- Author: Brian Gaar
- Tags: News, Elon Musk

Well, well, well. It seems the Tesla Cybertruck — that stainless steel wedge of suburban overcompensation — isn’t exactly flying off the shelves like Elon Musk probably imagined back when he was [smashing its windows on stage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udxR5rBq%5FVg&ab%5Fchannel=GuardianNews&ref=thebarbedwire.com).

So what’s a floundering EV giant to do when the original “futuristic” truck, priced like a luxury condo, isn’t catching on? Easy: Slap together a stripped-down version, knock a few grand off the sticker, and hope nobody notices you took out half the features.

Enter the [Cybertruck Long Range](https://autos.yahoo.com/teslas-newest-cybertruck-cheaper-cloth-165000143.html?ref=thebarbedwire.com) — the budget-friendly (if you consider $72,000 "budget") solution to Tesla’s sales woes. This new model shaves about $10,000 off the all-wheel-drive version by, well, taking away most of the things that made the truck remotely interesting to begin with. Gone are the days of four-wheel drive — the Long Range gets just one lonely motor pushing power to the rear wheels. Zero to 60? Now a relaxed 6.2 seconds versus the speedy 4 of the original.

And the luxury cuts don’t stop there: out go the leatherette seats, in come "textile" ones. Yes, the cool edgelordy Cybertruck now comes with the most old-fashioned of downgrades: cloth seats. Lol.

And the best part? All this frugality was apparently necessary because the Cybertruck isn’t selling. At all.

Once upon a time, deep in the heart of Austin, Musk’s cyberpunk fever dream rolled off the line, all sharp edges and hype. Musk promised an indestructible, all-electric pickup so advanced it would make traditional trucks look like horse-drawn wagons. Instead, the Cybertruck has cruised straight into the junkyard of automotive flops, parking itself comfortably alongside the Ford Edsel, the Pontiac Aztek, and — fittingly — the DeLorean.

Musk once predicted Cybertruck would be the next big thing — [250,000 units a year big](https://insideevs.com/news/667723/musk-estimates-tesla-could-sell-250000-500000-cybertrucks-yearly/?fbclid=IwAR2cWrpzT6c7MPk-0IAbgEBW%5FFDuklNf9Fr0caNA1s1IN1AJ6rm6LHebKTc&ref=thebarbedwire.com). Reality, as usual, disagreed. In its first full year, Tesla [managed to unload](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/04/03/elons-edsel-tesla-cybertruck-is-the-auto-industrys-biggest-flop-in-decades/?ref=thebarbedwire.com) fewer than 40,000 of these brushed-metal doorstops, a performance so bad it makes the Edsel look like a Toyota Corolla.

How bad has the Cybertruck bombed? Well, Ford’s aforementioned and much-maligned Edsel sold [63,000 units in its first year](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/04/03/elons-edsel-tesla-cybertruck-is-the-auto-industrys-biggest-flop-in-decades/?ref=thebarbedwire.com). Yes, [let that sink in](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1854034776815972649?lang=en&ref=thebarbedwire.com): the car so bad its name became a punchline *outsold Cybertruck by a lot*.

To sum it up, the Cybertruck is getting trolled by potential buyers harder than Elon when he’s trying [to show off for gamers](https://www.thebarbedwire.com/elon-musk-trolled-livestream/).

And while the truck’s design has always been “love it or hate it” (spoiler: mostly hate), its reputation for quality hasn’t helped either. [Eight recalls in 15 months](https://apnews.com/article/cybertruck-recall-tesla-elon-musk-nhtsa-8c517e21aa1119d74b9db39f6aca01b7?ref=thebarbedwire.com#:~:text=The%20Cybertruck%2C%20which%20Tesla%20began,drive%20wheels%20to%20lose%20power.) — including one for body panels that just [fell off](https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a63857202/tesla-cybertruck-losing-body-panels-reports/?ref=thebarbedwire.com) — and it’s no wonder the Cybertruck has become a moving billboard for global Tesla protests. Not even its Austin birthplace — Tesla’s beloved, specially modified Gigafactory, [retooled to crank out 250,000 Cybertrucks per year](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/04/03/elons-edsel-tesla-cybertruck-is-the-auto-industrys-biggest-flop-in-decades/?ref=thebarbedwire.com) — can save it from this flop status. Right now, the only thing rolling off those production lines is regret.

Looks like Musk wasn’t kidding when he said: “[I do zero market research whatsoever](https://x.com/ElonClipsX/status/1910860425996251455?ref=thebarbedwire.com).” Maybe he was too busy becoming a world record gamer? [Oh right, jk](https://www.thebarbedwire.com/elon-musk-admitted-to-cheating-at-video-games-gamers-are-aghast-why-did-he-do-it/).

And so, the new Cybertruck Long Range is here, arriving sometime this summer, ready to offer a few extra miles of range (25 more than the old model!) and a whole lot less of everything else.

The Cybertruck: still the future, just not the one anyone asked for.