Farewell to Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Has any car ever been more repellent? | Arwa Mahdawi

Safety campaigners have condemned it and owners have complained about it. Goodbye to a steel monstrosity seemingly designed by a five-year-old Elon Musk is having a rough go of it, isn’t he? The world’s richest man spent almost half a billion dollars on the midterms in a failed attempt to defend Republican control of government. Now the tech mogul, who moved from California to Texas to escape Democrats and regulations, finds himself in a newly blue state. He also finds himself the subject of an unflattering documentary and, if the Democrats follow through on threats to investigate him, could potentially be in a spot of legal bother. And to top it all off? Musk’s beloved Cybertruck, the steel monstrosity that looks as if it were designed by a five-year-old, is winding down production . According to Musk, this isn’t because it’s an abject failure, but because he is channelling his energy into other things. “This is not a case of Cybertruck being unprofitable, as has been misreported by legacy media,” Musk tweeted on Monday. “But rather that the opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck is vastly outweighed by the value of incremental Cybercab production.” (The Cybercab is a two-passenger robotaxi.) Continue reading...