James May finally drives the Tesla Cybertruck

[Music] hello viewers I'm in lovely wonderful sunny California where I believe it is still illegal to walk anywhere so I'm going to go for a drive cyber truck wowers [Music] trousers a girl in my room CL she could be cooler out of her mind you kiss and have a good time come here Rock now we're supposed to think of this car as radical I'm not talking about radical technology in most respects it's just like an electric car and specifically a Tesla and that's a very common thing these days now I'm talking about the way it

looks is this the cach of the modern era or maybe the Lagonda or the DeLorean the Aston Martin bould the Maserati Boomerang concept car I'm talking about things from my youth that made us go wow and were angular and covered in flat planes or is it maybe like the original fat multipl a car designed to be willfully ugly so that you would love it for the same reason everybody loved the Elephant Man otherwise you'd have to see it as well an electric pickup truck which is what it is and it's big even by Americans standards

with their enthusiasm for trucks it's pretty big it's very wide sort of cool though isn't [Music] it on the face of it this is a very simple shape you can imagine making a little model of this out of folded paper if you look at something like that Dodge Ram over there that's full of very complicated shapes compound curves and so on it's a very very involved bit of tooling but once you've made the tooling obviously you can bang them out in the hundreds of thousands we know that the engineers found this very difficult to do

I mean it's I think it's got quite a happy face which I like the flatness means that it has to be very very precisely made because the curves of a car like that or that Mercedes disguise any imperfections but if you look here very closely this piece here on the a pillar that doesn't align absolutely perfectly it's only a millimeter or so out but you can see that because it's a straight line and a flat surface it's also got quite sharp edges I mean look at that I wouldn't want to be hit by it I

me I wouldn't want to be hit by any car but especially not that one because well it's a it's a corner you don't really get corners on the fronts of cars normally but you do there it's also a festival of fingerprints if you're neurotic about that sort of thing and if you're a YouTuber very difficult to film because pretty much wherever you stand you can see yourself it's like a Hall of Mirrors I mean let's be honest Tesla are making a bit of a point with the Cyber truck if they really believe this was the

future of car design they'd make their other cars look like this and they don't they're all very inoffensive and conventional but I do wonder if this styling would look fantastic on something smaller something about the size of oh u a Ford Focus um a fear Panda I mean in some ways the original fear Panda was a bit like this it was a bit ruler and pencil there is something else to consider with things that are supposedly flat now if we go back to rollsroyce when they used to solder their own radiator grills together by hand

the blos who did that knew that they had to actually make them very slightly bulbous cuz if you make things perfectly flat especially when they're shiny they appear to be slightly shrunken slightly deflated so I'm curious to know exactly how flat this is and for that it would be very convenient if somebody had I don't know a steel rule there you go now the Bonnet very obviously has a bit of a curve to it very obviously that does as well but what about the flanks this door oh yes you see it is very very slightly

convex very very slightly convex that way oh that one's almost completely flat very slightly convex flat slightly convex flat very slightly convex you see I think they thought about this very carefully knew if they just made it as a folded cardboard design it would look pinched and weird and the reflections would be all wrong they knew to make it slightly I think the word is oblate what I think we should do here though is abandon all the design language rubbish and just take a moment to stand and look at it and decide if I actually

like it yes I do it's not on sale in the UK it's not on sale in Europe I don't even know if it's if it's allowed in Europe but it's definitely allowed here there's an amendment about it that's been added to the American Constitution you have the right to bear arms and to drive a cyber truck I suppose technically the most radical thing about the Cyber truck is that it is entirely steer by wire there is no physical connection between this and what the front wheels are doing it's essentially a computer interpreting what you want

to do and then doing it for you it's not actually the first steer by wire car but it's the first to be entirely steer by wire with no mechanical backup and if you sit and think about that a bit it's quite alarming this is not connected not in the sense that we normally mean with the wheels doing the steering on the other hand those linkages that we're so used to can't wear out and this car can do quite clever things like steer all four wheels have a very tight turning Circle for one so big and

require very small and gentle inputs which is why it has Well we'd have to call this a steering Yol rather than a steering wheel this makes you feel very good because you can pretend you're flying an airliner what a Pleasant View I think the clever thing that Tesla have done is to reassess what might be important to people in a car and even identify things that people didn't recognize as being important I don't think people just buy them because they think oh it's green transport it's also because the things that matter are given precedents so

they're easy to drive they're quiet they're connected you could can fuel them at home something I would just like to say about the Cyber truck is it's got the quietest electric windows I've ever encountered look at that I think that's probably better than an S-Class Road markings in America are written the ones that are actually on the road surface I mean in the order in which you pass them so that they read correctly so it says ped Crossing which is PED Xing but I was read them top to bottom so to me that says Zing

ped one just there said a head stop well a couple of criticisms have emerged from other people one is an old boy who came up to me in the car park just now and he says he doesn't like this single light bar on the front because when a cyber truck is coming towards you it's difficult to judge how far away it is with two lights obviously they are closer together the further away the car is he says this is confusing the other uh complaint has come from Lucy on the camera who says that these largely

flat shiny surfaces produce fantastic glare and my criticism is that these pillars are quite fat that's not a unique cybertruck problem but they're quite fat and very badly positioned for the view at Junctions and when you're going around for example a leftand bend that actually OB skewes your view of the road but never mind that look at the size of the windscreen WI wiper it's huge look they put a wiper on and then they thought no we need another wiper on the wiper and there it is I'll be honest with you I don't want a

cyber truck it's too big I have a slight AV version to pickup trucks if I'm honest but I can't help but like it because it's well it's a bit like a Tesla it's a bit challenging of conventions it makes you think about it but the bit that I really like is that it's all straight lines flat surfaces vertices but it makes everything else look Square I mean it is a little bit childish and a bit incel cyber drum but for the most part it's like a Tesla it's got the big screen in the middle rather

like my Tesla Model 3 Highland has and I'm in two minds about screens they're great because they declutter the car they feel modern you can reconfigure them and all that sort of thing and most of the stuff on there is set forget but it remains true that to say alter the temperature you have to look and touch things if you're not going to use the voice control and it just isn't the same as reaching for a knob that you can feel and turning it like in say an old BMW 3 Series my reasons for wanting

to drive the Cyber truck are twofold firstly I wanted to drive the Cyber truck secondly I wanted to try and shoehorn into this presentation rather fatuous promotion for my gin James gin which brings us conveniently to the load Bay or what I think in pickup trucks is called the bed come and see there are two little buttons here which do interesting things this one is the tailgate I didn't ask you to lock there are some interesting buttons here the first of which opens the tailgate you load it like a conventional boot or trunk if you're

an American but then there is this the tono which opens thle rather nice that covers it in normal use so that whatever you're carrying doesn't get stolen now this Bay this bed will hold 22,000 which we've worked out is £ 840 bottles of James gin a pallet of James Gins such as we export to the states currently holds 600 bottles so that's well over a whole pallet we don't have that many bottles here to test this out but if you have a cyber truck and a serious gin problem perhaps you could try that and let

us know in the meantime I'd also like to try an experiment because one of the things the Cyber truck reminds me of is pinball machines most pinball machines certainly when I used to play Pinball were designed in such a way that that you couldn't put a glass of beer or wine on them because the makers were always worried that the beer would be spilled into the mechanism they're very complicated they're electromechanical and they become complicated and expensive to repair so this bottle of James gin appears as if by Magic out of shot we can see

where on the Cyber truck yes it'll stay there it'll stay no it won't stay on the top no yes to the roof obviously not oh could you no uh get a sliding shot here not on the wind screen and no not on the Bonnet either so in short if you have a cyber truck and you're parked up and you wish to display your bottle of James gin Asian parsnip on it whilst you enjoy one in the sun it's the roof or where else would we decide the tono just it just grips on the tono but

not on there I hope that was useful James Jin available at James gy.com okay look here's what I think I think the Cyber truck is actually very ballsy and quite humorous but I am quite glad it exists and if I could make a little appeal to Elon Musk could you make something about the size of the model y or maybe even a little bit smaller still like a Tesla still with all this Tesla stuff on it but styled like this I'd go for that anyway viewers thanks as ever for watching and I should just remind

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