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This Aftermarket Cybertruck Shows That You Can't Fix a Flawed Design by Adding More
The Mansory Elongation
Mansory is a German company that tricks out exotic cars, largely for clients in Dubai. Their work consists of bolting extraneous, functionless extra parts onto vehicles in an effort to create visual interest. As an example, here's a Land Rover Defender from the firm:
It's like they're trying to port the vehicle into an anime movie, or increase the rendering cost by adding extra surfaces purely for the sake of it. Despite the hackneyed attempt, you can at least still make out the original lines and gesture of the Defender, as the vehicle's underlying design is sound, aesthetically speaking.
However, this more-is-more approach breaks down with their take on the Tesla Cybertruck:
Their goal in tacking these extra parts on was to "push the martial appearance of the vehicle a little further into the extreme," the firm says, which is presumably what Dubai-based millionaires are looking for. If anything, however, I think the add-ons merely highlight the awful underlying form of the truck. The more I look at it, the more it looks like it was designed in a single afternoon by someone with no design training.
Even more cringeworthy: This vehicle modification is called the "Elongation" (italics ours).
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The Aesthetics of Dictatorship
Looked familiar…
Looks Familiar
Like a Honda Civic with a fake spoiler and plastic chrome hubcaps, except instead of a kid with a pizza delivery job, it's a middle manager having a mid life crisis.
Are you sure that they just haven't forgotten to remove the in-transit packaging?
The Defender makes me cry :(
I have been staunchly opposed to this design since it was first introduced. At the time there was great debate around if it was a good or bad design , with many supporting this 'groundbreaking' move from Telsa. Where have all of those voices gone ? The Cybertrukk now seems to be universally regarded as a poor design.