- Well, it looks like
it could be streamlined
but it doesn't look like a truck.
- Oh, I know, I think
I've seen this actually,
John, what's his name?
Elon Musket?
- Yeah.
Honest opinions, okay?
Here it is.
(fast-paced music)
- All right, so we are at
Red Deer College in Alberta.
Guys, if you're not familiar
with Canadian provinces,
Alberta is pretty much
like the Texas of Canada.
So, you know they know a
thing or two about trucks.
Today, we're trying to
find out what people
think about Tesla's new Cybertruck.
Fin is behind the camera today.
- It's also very cold
if you haven't noticed.
I don't know if it's you.
- Yeah, so anything before this shot.
- [Fin] Here we are,
let's go check it out.
- Let's check it out.
(upbeat music)
- Nick.
- Nick, first of all,
would you describe yourself
as a truck guy?
- Sure.
- What kinda car do you own?
- Toyota Tacoma.
- [Fin] Do you drive a truck currently?
- Yes, I do.
- [Fin] Yeah, what kinda truck?
- Dodge.
- [Interviewer] Dodge?
- 1500.
- Do you have or have ever had a truck?
- Yes, I own two of them.
- What kinda car do you drive?
- Chevy Cruz.
- Chevy Cobalt.
- Chevy Silverado.
- So, you guys like Chevy's.
- Do you drive a truck currently?
- Yeah, I drive an F150.
- Okay, awesome, sweet.
So, have you seen the
new Tesla Cybertruck?
- Yeah, I have.
I saw the video when they debuted it.
- Okay, so you know kind
of what it looks like,
you kind of got a sense for it.
What do you think of the design?
- First thing I think of the
design is kind of super basic.
It looks like a warthog
from the original Halo
back when they couldn't add the...
[Fin] Yes, yeah, I seen that, I seen that.
- It looks like something
out of a ROBLOX game.
- So, you're not really a fan
of this truck, I would say.
- No.
- No.
Okay, can I start by
getting your name please?
- Skip.
- Skip, would you call
yourself a truck person?
Do you like trucks?
- If I could afford one.
- Have you heard or seen
of the new Tesla truck?
- Yes, I have.
- You have?
- I've seen pictures of it.
- You've seen pictures,
well we have pictures here.
I wanna show you and I
wanna get your opinion
on what you think of this truck.
(mischievous music)
And just take a look and
let me know what you think.
This is the new electric truck from Tesla.
- Oh, I know, I think
I've seen this actually,
John, what's his name,
Elon Musket?
- Yeah.
- He actually made this
'cause he's an engineer.
- Well, it looks like
it could be streamlined
but it doesn't look like a truck.
What it does remind me of is
those Jeeps they used to use
in the second World War they
drove through the deserts.
They used to have them on an
old show called Rat Patrol.
(Rat Patrol theme music)
- [Fin] Is this a good thing for you
or is it a bad thing?
- Well, it's kinda ugly lookin'.
It sorta compares to the old
four wheel drive Lamborghini.
- [Fin] And that's not a good
thing, you don't like that.
- No, it looks clunky.
- [Fin] What about the fact that
it's apparently bullet proof?
- Ah, I don't really see
the use for me personally.
Maybe down in the states I
could see where it's more vital
but up here I don't really
see myself gettin' shot at.
- What would think if you saw
this driving down the road?
- Well, now that I know what it is,
I'd say, "Hey, there goes a Tesla!"
- So, the design wouldn't throw you off,
it wouldn't turn you off?
- It's ugly.
It's definitely ugly.
But then, makes it hard to steal.
- It's called the Cybertruck
and he went with sort of
a space-age look and it's all electric.
What do you think?
- Looks okay.
Don't know why it can't
just be a regular truck.
I guess he's crazy, no (beep).
- [Fin] And what would
it take to get you to buy
a truck that looks like this
over just a regular truck?
- Ah, I wouldn't buy somethin' like that.
- What if this truck
had much a higher specs,
a much higher tower rate,
speed, range, all that stuff?
Would that convince you or not?
- Not really, I could find
that with a regular truck
and it'd be just as better.
- [Fin] Yeah?
- Yeah, that looks like
the Batmobile (laughs).
- [David] Like, that's
a bad thing, though.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- [David] I would think
that it's a good thing--
- Not in real life.
If it just looks weird, just stick
with a regular design.
- Yeah.
You can fit more stuff in there, people.
- What about the Chevy
do you find so appealing?
- Body styles, power.
- Motor type.
- You guys saw the Tesla Cybertruck.
What do you guys think?
- I, no.
- No?
When you say, no, you're
saying no the the whole truck?
Do you say no to the design, the specs?
- The design.
The idea's kinda cool.
All-wheel drive with the
three electric motors
but the design looks like
a little kid drew it, so.
- I think it looks like a cardboard box.
- It looks pretty spaceshipy.
- That sounds like a positive
to me, like spaceship,
that, I mean, spaceships are cool.
- Yeah.
- Are spaceships cool to you?
- Yeah, they're pretty sick.
- [Fin] So, have you heard
of the new Tesla truck?
- Yes.
- [Fin] Yeah, what do you think?
- It's all right, man.
I think it'd be a pretty sick welding rig.
The pipeline's goin' green,
man, that'd be deadly.
- All right, first of
all, what's your name?
- Gavin Anderson.
- Do you have a favorite type of vehicle?
- Well, I do enjoy sports cars,
but I prefer to have like
a Smart car in the future.
- [David] Not a truck person?
- I'm fine with trucks, like
they play an important role.
My grandmother has a truck and she likes
to move things around regularly, so.
- You never heard anything
about the Tesla Cybertruck?
- No.
- All right, so I'm gonna
show you some pictures
and I just want your
honest opinions, okay?
Here it is.
- (beep) Looks ridiculous.
(explosions booming)
(crowd cheering)
I mean, it's kinda cool, I mean.
- [Fin] Have you seen the
video of the Tesla truck
beating a Porsche 911 in a race?
- It's just a little clip,
really.
- All right.
- They take off, the Porsche
starts to win a little bit,
then the Tesla takes over.
- That's pretty sweet.
- And we also have a video
of towing capacities.
So, here's the video.
(tires squealing)
- (laughs) So, that's kinda funny.
- Elon Musk claims that's uphill as well.
(audience clapping)
- It was uphill.
(audience laughing)
- What are your thoughts on it?
- I don't like the concept design of it
as well as with their
product demonstration
when they threw the ball
bearing at the window.
(window cracking)
- (beep) Maybe that was a little too hard.
(audience laughing)
- It was kinda funny, I laughed at that.
- Are you guys trying to
be the next big YouTubers?
- Tesla just announced they
have an electric vehicle,
it's electric truck and
it has some insane specs.
Everyone's talking about it,
have you heard about the Tesla truck?
- No.
- You haven't?
I'm gonna show you some pictures
and I wanna get your thoughts
on this Tesla truck, okay?
- Okay.
- All right, so here's pictures, okay.
This is Elon Musk, he
just announced on stage.
It's called a Cybertruck
and he tried to make it look like it was
from a sci-fi movie.
What do ya think?
- It doesn't look like a truck (laughs).
- Yeah, it has like a six-foot bed,
it goes zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds.
If you have a new vehicle,
would you consider getting this?
- No.
- What do you not like about it?
- It's just too much.
- Too much?
- Yeah.
- Do you think it looks like a kinda truck
that you can see people
buying though or not really?
- No, not really.
I like more simple stuff (laughs).
- Yeah?
'Cause here's the thing, this
is actually the Batmobile.
(laughing)
But I'm gonna show you what
the actual truck looks like.
Okay?
- Yes.
- Okay, that's the Batmobile.
- That's so funny.
- And... behind these...
- Dude, that can't be it.
- That is actually the truck.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah, I'm not lying to you.
- Are you serious?
- He's serious.
- They can trust me this time.
- I don't know if I trust you now.
- We've gotten some good reactions so far.
A lot of people know about the truck.
We wanna find someone
who hasn't seen it yet
and we're gonna show 'em the Rivian truck,
which looks a lot more plausible.
And then we're gonna show 'em the actual
Tesla Truck and see what
they think (laughs).
If you were to get a vehicle,
would it be a car or a truck?
- Probably a car.
- What kind of cars do you like?
- I'm not really picky about that.
Oh, actually, I'll recant that.
Jeeps.
- Have you heard that Tesla
just announce their new Cybertruck?
Have you heard of this?
- I have not.
- I'm gonna show you and I
wanna get your thoughts on it.
Okay?
- All right.
- Here's the picture.
What do you think?
- Oh, interesting.
It looks very futuristic,
for a lack of a better way of putting it.
- [David] The design
was very controversial.
- [Fin] Yeah, what do you think?
- I could see that.
So, I really like the design of the front.
It looks very human.
- And if you were to get a truck,
is this something that
would look appealing to you?
- Not particularly.
- No.
- I'm a lot more like CJs and YJs.
- Okay, well here's the thing.
This is actually Tesla's
competitor truck the Rivian.
I'm going to show you what
the actual Tesla truck looks like.
You ready?
- Yeah.
- This is actually the Cybertruck.
(laughing)
Does that make a little more sense
of why people were
controversial over it?
- Yep.
100%.
Yeah.
- Yeah, and that's Elon Musk unveiling it.
- Yeah, this is a very Elon Musk thing.
- So, what do you think
of this as a truck?
- Okay.
So, this just makes me
think of Black Mirror.
- Yeah.
- Specifically the "Metal Head" episode.
(dramatic music)
- [Woman] If I don't make it back,
I've always loved you all.
- Interesting.
It's significantly more
spacious than anticipated.
- It's actually a six-seater.
It's got a six-foot bed.
- Yeah.
- The same metal they're gonna use
in their SpaceX rockets.
- Yep.
- What do you think?
Would you drive this?
- Probably not.
- No?
- Not at least initially.
- Yeah, but if everyone was drivin' them
and they were cool,
you might get down for it?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, at that point it's like all right.
No, I'm all for new design.
- Awesome.
- I think that--
- Great.
Same, I'm down for it as well.
- Yeah.
That's how we progress.
- Yes.
- That's how we advance.
I think Elon Musk,
as interesting as he is.
- Yeah.
- Does really cool things
and I could see this
as being a really cool
thing in the future.
- Would you ever consider owning
the Tesla Cybertruck?
- Depends.
Will it cost me an arm and a leg?
- Well, the starting price is $40,000.
- Oh, 40,000?
That's actually not that
bad for a truck (laughs).
Is it durable?
Can it withstand a lot of force?
- According to Elon
Musk, it's bulletproof.
- (laughs) Bulletproof.
- So, if they do the test
and it comes back and yes
it is actually bulletproof,
you'd be down with a Tesla Cybertruck.
- I'd definitely look at it
because of the price point
on it at $40,000 US opening
is about $47,000 to $50,000 Canadian.
Right off the bat
it wouldn't be a bad option
in comparison to new trucks right now
that are about $50,000 flat on the market.
- [Fin] If you were to
get a new truck now,
what would the Cybertruck have to do
to convince you to get
that over a new Silverado
or a Chevy something?
- It'd have to be a diesel (laughs).
- [Fin] What if you rolled
next to a Tesla truck
in your diesel truck
but you knew that it
faster, it could outperform,
all of those things,
does that matter to you?
- Not for trucks.
- It'd have to be diesel.
- For cars it does but I like the sound
that a truck makes when you floor it.
- Okay, okay, that's fair.
All right.
What would it take for this vehicle
to convince you to get
it over a new Dodge?
- Not look like the way it does.
(laughing)
- [Fin] Yeah, so that's a
pretty big turnoff for you.
- Yeah, that's a big turnoff.
Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It's not even the
specs or in the features,
it's nice it's just the
design just looks weird.
- [Fin] Yeah.
- Yeah, (laughs) I don't
like the design.
- Yeah.
So, if you saw one of
these pull up next to you,
you wouldn't appreciate it.
- No, I wouldn't.
- [Fin] Okay (laughs).
- I'd probably be impressed with
the features and all.
- Yeah.
- But that's about it.
- So, what do you think of this design
compared to the last one?
(laughing)
- [David] Just more acceptable, perhaps?
- Yeah.
I like the camping aspect.
- Yeah.
So, do you think you
can see yourself buying
a truck like this?
- Maybe.
I'd buy it over the Batmobile.
- You know, I can see it, man.
- Yeah.
- It's not bad.
I would rock it.
(laughing)
It's not terrible.
- Especially if you
could beat a Porsche 911.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds, yeah.
- Yeah, that's pretty fast.
- I guess my last question would be,
will you be getting the Tesla truck?
- Oh, no, man.
I'm definitely buying
a Dodge 3500 Cummins.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
All right, there you go.
Thanks so much.
I appreciate it (laughs).
Yeah, I'm surprised it broke.
I personally tried to break
their glass window before.
Trust me I wasn't doing anything.
I took a hammer to a glass window
to try and break it
and it's actually surprisingly difficult.
Just a regular glass window.
- [David] Are you talking
about the time we--
- Yeah, I'm talkin'
about the time we drove
a car off a cliff, yeah (laughs).
- You drove a car off a cliff?
- Yeah, it was a pretty good video.
- [Ben] Hit that.
Pull this.
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