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Tesla Cybertruck Attempts The Ruthless Rubicon Trail, Heavy Damage Ensues

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Meanwhile a stock Jeep Liberty did the trail on road tires.
- A jeep Liberty did it with a winch and busted front diff housing.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uSrgRnqi00
- I think that’s more about driver skill.
  
  For a lot of the trail it was being driven by a complete newbie. Here’s the video
- Meanwhile, a Suzuki Jimny did the trail in road tires and on only eight tanks of fuel.
Honestly, other than emptying your wallet, it's about the most useless vehicle ever made.
Get literally any other EV.
- I’d live to see how a similarly outfitted Ford Lightning would do. The long wheelbases on both are going to be a problem, but at least Ford knows how to build a truck.
  
  Ford knows how to sell a truck. Musk just targeted the 99.99% of truck owners who will never do anything but help their brother in law move a couch once every 3 years, or tow some shitty boat.
  Driving the Rubicon is irrelevant to truck owners.
  
  It'd probably need modifications for off roading, but it'd definitely fair better.
“Thankfully, a Jeep Wrangler that was part of the convoy dragged the limping Tesla across some of the gnarliest of obstacles”
cleaning up the litter
A Rivian R1S became the first production EV to conquer the Rubicon in 2023–on stock tires, no less.
It has been shown that it's easy to dismantle that vehicle doing regular truck things in asphalt. Of course it doesn't survive a true trail.

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