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!
Total loss is when the reparation cost is higher than the resale value right.
Given that owners are not allowed to resell those things, is total loss a sensible way to frame this?
Arguably all cybertrucks are totalled upon incurring any repair cost, until a resale value can be establishingLol, I hadn’t heard that the warranty only works on pavement…
They also void the battery warranty if you use the built in power inverter to power devices while stationary; despite advertising it for powering tools or even your home during a blackout.
Tesla is an innovative company that way.
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.
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.
“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.
Yeah this doesn’t really belong here. notheonion is meant for things that sound like they should be satire, but are actually real
Like hell does tipping a vehicle on it’s side total it.
I realise people want to find a reason to make fun of the Cybertruck, but the only evidence it was “totalled” are photos of it lying on it’s side, for all we know it drove away.
A car is “totaled” when it’s damaged enough that the cost to completely repair it obviously exceeds its value. It doesn’t matter if can drive or not. I mean, sure, you could often just cut the roof off a rolled-over vehicle and pretend it’s a convertible now and keep driving it, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t totaled. It just means you chose not to repair it properly. Damage from a rollover is typically very extensive, so it’s pretty much a given for lots of cars that if they roll over, you can assume they’re totaled.
Also, the more poorly the vehicle is designed for repairability, and the more expensive replacement parts are, the easier it is to total. And we know cybertrucks are close to a worst-case scenario for both of those things.
This wasn’t even a full rollover, it was on it’s side.
I’ve been in a vehicle that did that, it was fine mechanically and only had panel damage.
No way would that total a year old vehicle.
But was it a cybertruck?
No, it was significantly less valuable than a Cybertruck.
I realise you want to hate on the Cybertruck, but seriously?
First of all, “only panel damage” can easily total a car, especially if the damage is distributed across a lot of panels (as is typically the case in a rollover) and even more especially if it’s panels that are welded in and comprise part of the car’s unibody. The labor adds up fast.
And that’s for regular panels that you can get mostly straight and then fair out with Bondo before painting. But this is a fucking Cybertruck with bare stainless steel: they have to bodywork every single panel to be absolutely perfect (including surface finish), which absolutely fucking skyrockets those labor costs. Hell, normal car-body workers don’t even know to go about doing that in the first place; you’d have to take it to a specialist – if you can even find one, considering that the only market for that skill before the Cybertruck showed up would’ve been the extremely occasional DeLorean!
Second, if you look at the pics in the linked Reddit thread, in the fourth picture you can see how the A-pillar is wavy (buckled) – that means the unibody is fucked. Even if the roof itself looked okay, and it doesn’t, the whole thing is pushed in and no longer located at the correct point in space relative to the rest of the vehicle. Fixing that, not only so the doors close properly but also so the strength of the frame isn’t compromised to be unsafe for the next rollover, is complicated in and of itself.
Third (and admittedly this is a little more speculative; I’m not an insurance agent so I don’t know for sure), it could be that they simply can’t get the parts to repair the vehicle (such as that glass roof) at any price, and therefore have no choice but to total it regardless.
It’s a Cybertruck They’re notoriously delicate.
That’s enough of that, you’ll bruise its self-esteem…!
And as you know, that voids the warranty
This is an article based on a reddit post, saying they “totalled it” with no other evidence except it was tipped on it’s side.
