November 26: Next stop Mars!

What is Elon Musk thinking?

This genius of all things electric has finally gone off the rails. Finally taken one too many hits of electrical current to start his day. Finally looked at all those Teslas on the road and gotten way ahead of himself and everyone else on the planet. Of course, if you've been living in a cave, you won't know what I'm talking about. Everyone else will know I'm referring to the gawd awful looking, just unveiled Tesla pick-up, the Cybertruck. Lord have mercy!

Beauty is in the eye, etc, but this thing is a pick-up truck? The most loyal and the most traditional of buyers line up for these things at Ford, Chev, GMC, Ram and Toyota dealers. Also one or two at Nissan. Is this what they are looking to put in their driveways?

Has Elon finally snapped or does he know something that the rest of us are unaware of? Is this ahead of the curve thing correct or is it about to run into a semi coming around that curve?

For years the pick-up business has been the most successful segment of the car market. Huge numbers are sold each year and increasingly these trucks have become more civilized, but at the same time becoming much more in your face macho. Here are the big players in this field, so see for yourself what feature is common to them all..........

GMC Sierra

Chevrolet Silverado

Toyota Tundra

Ford F-150

Ram

 If you said, they all have black tires, you can leave the class right now, since you just don't get it. Gold stars to all of you who raised your hand with the correct answer..........big in your face front ends. Compare these to Tesla's futuristic Mars rover. Do you think that Elon is tapping into a vast unknown pick-up truck buyer mindset?

Take a moment to check out what Tesla had proposed earlier.........

Different than anything currently available, but in reality a more futuristic vision of the tough as nails pick-up that the current buyers love. If Tesla had shown this last week (whether those windows shattered or not), I think the line up of real buyers would be long.

How will the new Cybertruck do? Be patient, since the first ones won't come to market until late 2021, with subsequent models coming out a year later. If you are familiar with Tesla's track record of intros, you can easily add a year to those dates and a few thousand bucks to the price. But hey this is Tesla, so who knows what will happen between now and then.

I'll make a prediction and I think it's a very safe bet, the only place the new Cybertruck will find a home will be here..........

...........and Elon will have to use one of his own space ships to get it there.

Until next time......