Well folks, we’ve seen a lot of wild wrecks at King of the Hammers, but this one? This one is special. In what can only be described as a world record for fastest off-road DNF, a Tesla Cybertruck met its untimely end in the parking lot… before a single rock was crawled or dune was hooned. See the photos!
Does this count as “not the onion”? Not trying to pile onto the “lol cyberstuck” bandwagon or anything, but there is really nothing unexpected going on here. That thing is already well-known for breaking down under tame conditions.
It didn’t even break down, they tipped it on it’s side, and flipped it back on it’s wheels.
It probably drove off just fine.
Yeah this doesn’t really belong here. notheonion is meant for things that sound like they should be satire, but are actually real
I thought it was funny… if I have to explain the joke, though, maybe it wasn’t that funny!
Like, King of Hammers is just about the hardest off-road race there is. The hard parts of King of Hammers do not look like a parking lot. The hard parts look like the picture below. To get hit with a DNF in the parking lot is unexpected, and that’s the onion-y quality in my head. Again, the joke is not as good if I need to explain it.
https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/8cf49fe481ba89de68410474a8e02e3361076037/hub/2016/01/26/6e6d7d6f-78ad-40d9-9ba9-34d577b2c219/credit-kathy-durrett-koh-2015-6.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200
“Totaled” is also the what people say for DNF at the race.
It’s not the same as “totalled” for a regular car in the context of a race.
No, but in this case it’s likely true.