Cybertruck Wrapped in Urban Camo Spotted! (More Photos & Video Added)

[Kremmen]

But… why?

Mostly I figure Elon wanted to annoy fellow autists like me.

Are the people taking it as "actual car co. prototype camouflage" ACTUALLY SERIOUS, or just making jokes?

I have NFI. And it's driving me insane.

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[RVAC]

It honestly reminds me of a hummer. It's really big and imposing, wide wheel base. People don't remember now but 25 years ago hummers were everywhere, people paying 70K and then getting 10 mpg so they could drive those vehicles that were of very limited practical use in a civilian context. And those frickin things definitely didn't last on the road, you almost never see them now.

But yes, there is a very obvious appeal of this vehicle to the military. I don't believe Elon wants to make military equipment though.

There is no military appeal to the vehicle, it's going to be at most bulletproof to 9mm handgun rounds. That's nothing in the military world.

I don't believe any of that was staged. There are so many unknowns as to how the audience and market would react that it isn't worth the risk. If anything it was smart that they had the extra parts on-hand simply because they planned to do an Armoured Glass Demonstration.

Additionally there is footage of the driver's side window successfully deflecting the ball bearing.

Yeah I don't buy the planned part either. Elon looked genuinely startled.

I think there is an assumption being made here that may, or may not be true. That assumption is, beneath the wrap Is a naked 30X SS CT. Fair enough.

What if the wrap is there to hide a factory painted CT???

With all the job postings for paint people, and the lack of surprises the roll-out is likely to have at this point, what if that is the last big shocker? I know what Elon said. I heard the Henry Ford statement. But there are always things that change.

What if???

There are other parts on the truck that need painting, job postings have nothing to do with the stainless steel being painted.

 

[MEDICALJMP]

Why bother wrapping a preproduction beta?

Free publicity.
Excitiment.
Buzz.

There are 11 pages of chatter on here in less than 48 hours and over a half dozen news stories in print and video. Remember, Tesla does not advertise. They get lots of free advertisement by creating word of mouth.

And it is a real video, not Photoshop.

 

[PilotPete]

There are other parts on the truck that need painting, job postings have nothing to do with the stainless steel being painted.

You are possibly correct. Your statement that “job postings have nothing to do with…” shy of serious internal knowledge, is another assumption, which MAY or MAY NOT be true.

The real question that I posed was; What if the Camo is there to cover a painted truck?

Unless your W-2 at the end of the year says TESLA on it, it is ALL speculation. I’m just suggesting there is an avenue of speculation we haven’t discussed.

 

[Greshnab]

ok for all of you that want to believe the cybertruck will be painted/wrapped/detailed/ any other thing that makes one different from another.... .SKIIP this.. cause i might bust your bubble.

One of the key things that Tesla is working on is making almost no changes to the production lines at all. think about the configurator for existing cars... the only REAL configurations that require line changes are color and tow hitch and POSSIBLY the structural battery pack <for extended range cars> <lets exclude the plaid there is a reason it costs so much!!>

it may SEAM like putting in more engines would be a major change bur really not.. you just program the robot for engine 3 to be idel .. then for 2 to be idle.... i suspect when you look inside the engine mounts are still there and everything else needed just no engine. This is a huge shift i understand from how other car companies build; if you don't need it we don't put it on the car.. if it is a $1 and we sell a million cars we made an extra million bucks..

tesla believes in losing a bit on each vehicle by putting the same pieces in ALL cars and making it up by selling more units.. and until the demand for electric cars moderates and ice vehicles ownership is MUCH lower... their plan will work.

So... if you accept that rant... why in the name of heaven would tesla ADD a paint line ?? right now the ONLY reason to slow production by changing the line is you are adding a different structural pack and that SHOULD be fairly fast and easy.. for the CT we have no paint to change, and no hitch... once they start the line at full speed they NEVER have to slow down except to change to a different sized pack!!

so NO I do NOT see tesla making the production MORE complex in any way they can avoid.. and with over 2 million orders for a cybertruck that is unpainted they can avoid wraps, and paint both.

 

[Deleted member 17810]

They'll probably offer paint, for a premium of course.

 

[greggertruck]

Another video

 

[Kremmen]

They rolled the working (initial) truck off the platform, and replaced it with a model that wouldn't drive (just for show). Many people didn't even notice.

Wait, you saw *two* vehicles in Nov 2019?

Best of my knowledge, nobody has ever identified a second OG/Concept unit. As hand built units there would almost HAVE to be some differences. How confident are you about this?

 

[Kremmen]

But I'd have to say it also looks fake: the lighting on the camo parts never varies, neither across the vehicle nor from shot to shot. It wouldn't be too hard to overlay a camo pattern on the steel-colored surfaces, but it would take a lot more effort to adjust surface properties.

Why would these videos be faked? Why would Elon comment as if they were real?

 

[Deleted member 17810]

Not to mention, there's a shot where the green marking on the road is literally tinting the wrap.

 

[CyberGus]

I think there is an assumption being made here that may, or may not be true. That assumption is, beneath the wrap Is a naked 30X SS CT. Fair enough.

What if the wrap is there to hide a factory painted CT???

With all the job postings for paint people, and the lack of surprises the roll-out is likely to have at this point, what if that is the last big shocker? I know what Elon said. I heard the Henry Ford statement. But there are always things that change.

What if???

There is zero chance that Cybertrucks will have factory exterior paint.

I have spoken.

 

[fritter63]

My prediction. The Cybertruck will be the most wrapped vehicle in the history of automobiles.

Every CT will leave the assembly plant looking identical to the next one. Owners will want to personalize their truck to make theirs stand apart from the crowd

In “the villages” (central Florida), they will be wrapped in a print of different colored Loofas.

Google it. ?

 

[AlDente]

Hi Rick,
You and I believe the same thing about the windows...Here's why I believe it was intentional....I was at the unveiling in the front row. Watched Franz throw the shot puts or whatever you want to call them. After the primary showing of the vehicle and presentation, here's what happened while people's attention was diverted (food, drink, etc.). They rolled the working (initial) truck off the platform, and replaced it with a model that wouldn't drive (just for show). Many people didn't even notice.

Then they took the working truck with the broken windows and rolled it behind the stage (I watched) and they had a crew go to town and replace the windows. This was the vehicle that was going to be used for test rides. They got the window replacement finished and ultimately rolled the truck outside to get ready for the test rides. I asked myself..."If the windows were really not supposed to break, why would they have all the parts necessary to replace them, along with the crew of people that did the work pretty quickly"? It started to smell to me like it was planned from the beginning....And there you go....

Nonsense, as always with Musk failure is one of the possible outcomes.

 

[papajamaliciousness]

There is no military appeal to the vehicle, it's going to be at most bulletproof to 9mm handgun rounds. That's nothing in the military world.

I wasn't even referring to the cybertruck being at a base level bulletproof to 9mm rounds, unlike any other vehicle including a hummer. I meant because it is tactically quiet, would save the military immense amounts of money on fuel, is an extremely capable off-road vehicle (capable of standard off-road, far better performance than any current car, capable of floating in water), more capable in every way even than the hummer I suspect, although it was not designed to nato specs, and I suspect when fully speced out is still significantly cheaper than whatever the military is currently using as a transport vehicle.

Not to mention that the military would ask for upgrades that would make it more capable than it is in its base mode.

To be clear, I am not advocating that Tesla make military equipment.

I am surprised that you would misinterpret my statement without first asking for clarification as to what I meant.

update: but mark my words, even if it's not a tesla cybertruck, the United States military will be using electric tactical vehicles within 20 years.

 

[kpanda17]

but the thought is compelling, a military vehicle that can go 0-60 in less than 4 sec

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