But wait, there's more. All
right, that was Tesla doing a little showing off of
its new I think it's almost
$61,000 Cyber Truck. What made that kind of funny?
Is it in a speed race?
It it it beat a portion of what was kind
of funny in the end
is well if this is
worth a sense of humor here,
that that that cyber truck was actually hauling
a Porsche and still beat it.
But the thing at least to me it it's so
ugly and I I I had a lot of young
people on my staff who immediately said no,
Neil, this is a very cool looking I
I would get it in a minute,
something like that. I think they were looking for me
to help him out with that but that's not going
to happen.
Anyway. Mike Caudill is here,
auto expert extraordinaire out of Nashville.
You know, like I'm looking at this and maybe I'm
showing my age.
It looks ugly to me.
I'm sure it's great. I understand it's bulletproof,
given some of the emails I get.
That could come in handy.
But I'm wondering, like, what do you,
what do you make of it?
Well, Neil, thanks for having me on.
And let me just start with this.
Your younger staff, they're nuts.
It is ugly. It is the ugliest vehicle I think
I have ever laid eyes on.
It actually goes all the way back to the Pontiac
Aztec is one of the most ugly cars ever to
hit the market.
Now the story. Dating yourself,
young man. Yeah, and this.
That's right. Exactly. And the story with Elon,
you know it's always hype,
right? This Tesla Cybertruck came out in
2019. It's taken him four years to bring it to
market.
It was originally $40,000. They bumped it in four years,
almost up another $20,000. But that's just the starting price,
right at $60,000. There's $100,000 version with that
845 horsepower to zero to 60 in
4.1 seconds with 10,000 foot pounds of torque.
And yeah, it can out tow
a Ford F-250 and it is faster than 911,
but the frankly who needs to be the first one
to the red light,
right? Like I just look at it as all hype
when it comes to Elon with this cyber truck.
Bulletproof. Yeah, I need bulletproof to get down to Kroger
to pick up my groceries.
Like I just think it's always hype with him and
I'd like to see it come to market.
I just think the design is really going to push
people away from it.
Well, you know, I'm glad I went out and lived
there talking about that.
But the one thing I wondered too,
Mike, is whether the, the,
the the bloom is off the roads for a lot
of these vehicles that that that,
you know, a lot of the big automakers are scaling
back their production plans because they say the demand isn't
there.
I think GM was first and foremost with that.
And it's not to say that they don't have a
future,
but it might not be as near the future as
some thought.
Where are you on this and where this whole technology
is going?
Yeah, Neil. So if you're really looking like this,
Ford Motor Company has pumped the brakes on its electric
technology.
As far as where they're at with battery right now,
everyone is pulling back and it's because about it's all
about demand,
right? You can build the cars.
And I'll be honest with you,
I've test driven just about every electric vehicle on the
market.
They have far surpassed my expectations of what an electric
vehicle can be.
But at the end of the day,
it's all about demand. Do people want to buy electric
vehicles?
And the answer is we're still sitting at about 7%
take rate on people buying electric vehicles and right now
the market is just not ready for it.