FoxTrot by Bill Amend for July 14, 2024

That looks good for a couple of kids.

Looks like they designed the Tesla truck.

It is not bad honestly, I have seen worse

I wonder if this one can take a baseball bat like the other one could. Or, well, couldn’t, really.

Well, won’t rust.

You’re only kids, so what is Elon Musk’s excuse?

They did a good job , made out of wood and everything.

That’s funny!

I’ve seen one of those. I thought the smart cars were ugly. Sheesh.

This is a good job to be done by two persons their age.

This is the first time I see Peter in pink shorts.

I saw my first one on the road the other day and that was the first thought I had that is a very ugly vehicle. I can’t see how it can be called a truck

What will happen if they get it up to 88 mph?

Henry Ford bought land in the U.P. of Michigan to have a supply of wood to make auto bodies. Many years ago, we visited a ghost town that remained in that location.

My favourite type of video at the moment is the Cybertrukkk cautiously navigating terrain my 20 year old Hyundai hatchback doesn’t eve notice, while carrying more.

Today’s missing classic is gocomics.Com/foxtrot/2003/07/20

Does it have a 3’ windshield wiper that ejects.

I read an article about Tesla’s claim that the truck was faster than a Porsche (reaching a certain speed) while towing a Porsche (don’t remember the model). They tested it and it was not, in fact, faster than the Porsche. HOWEVER, it only missed it by fractions of a second and that is mighty impressive.

I saw one in my town last Friday! SO much larger than I’d expected. Be a nice companion to my (imagined) DeLorean.

I thought these two were supposed to be geniuses?

Hehehe

Looks like better build quality than the Musk disaster.

A DeLorean?

I’ve seen three in the wild. One was actually driving down the road.

Why is a rope hooked to the front axle ?

There is one in my village. Sticks out like a sore thumb

Still probably runs better than the real thing

Resembles a DeLorean, but no way will it get up to 88 miles per hour!!!

Readers’ comments alerted me to the Tesla Cybertruck notion, but I thought to myself: Nah, these cartoons are from years ago. Then I remembered Amend is posting new ones on Sunday. So I went searching (I’m not familiar with Tesla vehicles: my Prius Prime is quite good enough, thank you very much), and found a perfect match: www-dot-wired-dot-com-slash-story-slash-why-tesla-cybertruck-looks-weird. I wonder if Amend was looking at that photo when he drew this strip.

This makes the Pacer look good.

What’s the rope to the wheel do?

The thing I’ve never got about the cybertruck is how NOT aerodynamic it is in comparison to other cars. And this definitely matters, because the better the aerodynamics, the better the efficiency, gas or electric, because then the car doesn’t have to work as hard against the friction of the air moving past it. And Elon Musk may be a lot of things, but he does definitely know a thing or two about physics still, so it’s weird, even for him, to just ignore that for the sake of pushing ahead with a car that looks like a block of steel with a couple of the corners lobbed off at random.

Well, Musk is an emotional infant, so I guess that tracks.

Is this for Fred and Barney or Gilligan?

I read that it takes 7 years to make up for the ecological cost of manufacturing an electric vehicle before there’s a net benefit to the environment.

Thought it was ugly first time a saw a picture of it years ago. Seen a few on the road and they look just as ugly IRL.

The Cyber Truck looks just like a dumpster behind a restaurant.

The original one was the Thing by Volkswagen

I’ve seen one near where I work. My only question is how the heck do they even see out?! The back (tinted) window is up so high and the side windows are small!

oof, well nobody told him to make a commercially available vehicle that looks like an untextured PS1 model

What hath Elon wrought??

What hath Elon wrought?

So does the boys’ version have a two-part accelerator pedal where the upper part comes loose and gets itself jammed up under a projection in front of it so that the accelerator just keeps accelerating?

I’m glad the boys have more imagination and ingenuity than most of the commenters here.

Ugly? Bite your tongue, Peter!

It a wooden Delorean

Here that Musk, everyone agrees-even the comics! That is one ugly vehicle.

Okay Peter, let’s see you do better! It may be ‘ugly’ to you, but it’ll probably run very well.

When the Cybertruck was first released, Pontiac Aztek owners everywhere broke out the champaign because they no longer owned the all-time ugliest vehicle.

Cybertrucks are even uglier in person.

I have read complaints by owners that the bodies of their Cybertrucks went rusty quickly.

The Flintstones meet Tesla, powered by Fred’s feet.

There are too many replies to look through, so, if I steal someone else’s comment, I apologize…This is kind of reminiscent of “The Little Rascals.”

We have one tooling around our neighborhood. First time I saw it I thought it was a joke of some kind. I still think it is. I think Elon sat down, drew up the ugliest car/truck he could think of, and then sat back waiting to see just how many morons would pay $140,000 for it. Quite a few I guess! (:O

I made the comment that the Cyber truck looks like nearly every pinewood derby car ever.

Looks better in wood…

Somebody tell that to Elon

The real thing should have most of the bugs worked out by the time they are old enough to drive. Key word should.

I see what you did there, Bill! ❤️❤️❤️

It’s obvious that Elon saw a Pontiac Aztek as a child, and was forever smitten.

I bet their car wooden start.

Put some shine on it, and it just might make it.

Well, at least THIS version won’t rust.

What’s the joke?

Saw one in person this week. Have always thought it was utterly ridiculous but was surprised that it looks better in person. Doesn’t hurt that, when parked, they set closer to the ground and that really helps. Strong DeLorean vibes.

Looks to me like something that was built on Gilligan’s Island.

Yeah, that’s what I thought too