Meanwhile a stock Jeep Liberty did the trail on road tires.
A jeep Liberty did it with a winch and busted front diff housing.
You mean something like the vehicle on the left?
Stupid IFS.
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
Wow.
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.
CT was definitely marketed as a “capable off road vehicle.”
yes, to those who want to pretend they do such things
It’d probably need modifications for off roading, but it’d definitely fair better.
The Cybertruck in this story was moderately modified, so I’d assume a Lightning to be similarly modified.
The Rubicon is literally in my county, and I know people who were part of the group who rescued this guy; they knew he was a joke from the get-go.
“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.
