Motorcycle (and backpacking) camper here, so right there are my credentials for being able to shove a camping loadout into a vehicle.
For $3000, you can buy an entire high end backpacking setup, and also be able to use it without the presence of your stupid truck. And when I say entire, I mean it: A nice free standing tent you could probably pitch inside the truck bed if you had some creativity and really wanted to, a premium cot or inflatable pad, very competent sleeping bag, backpack, stove, water filter, hiking poles, a chair, a nice knife, the whole lot.
With change left over. I just added up the full list prices of everything in my core loadout and you could buy it all (including the backpack, which you don’t need for truck camping) for $1418.82.
So just do that instead.
Yeah, even a high-quality truck or SUV compatible tent is a minor fraction of the cost here. I could walk into an REI with $3,000.00 and end up with an incredible kit of camping gear. This is highway robbery.
I’m pretty sure what happened is that they were essentially pitching a shell for the back of the truck. And if it’s rigid and made of metal and maybe folded down to act as a cover while driving, fine. That’d still be a lot more than what the average truck/SUV convertible will cost. But it’s Tesla so it’s expected.
But then they changed to this BS and couldn’t reduce the price without recognizing the drop in expectation so here we are.
It’s the price you deserve to pay if you support Tesla.
Yeah, but none of that helps convince me I didn’t buy a shitty truck and stave off the buyer’s remorse for another few months!
It’s not rust, it’s a P a t i n a
Even in the same kind of class of hardware, a Thule roof-tent is vastly superior for less money.
And! You can move that to your next vehicle when your Cybertruck inevitably disintegrates.
Hey that’s not rust that’s a lovely brown patina!
When you factor in the roof rack you need to get, most reputable RTT are in that $3k price range.
This requires a cybertruck. And there’s a whole class of people that already have crossbars on their cars. I priced out a Thule kit for my wagon and it was about 2400 bucks for the whole kit including the mounting hardware for my roof rails. And it’s modular, and will work on any vehicle.
free standing tent you could probably pitch inside the truck bed if you had some creativity and really wanted to
The cyber truck bed is ~72x51(I have also seen 49"). Most 2 person tents are 50-54x78-88. I couldn’t find the bed length with the tailgate down, but the interior height with the cover closed is about 20", so we can assume the available length would be over 90". The other issue is most 2 person tents are side opening and getting out would be a bother, but a head or foot opening tent could totally work.
You could squeeze in a very nice 2 person head opening tent and spend under $800 easily, you can have a nice tent for $250. A custom 4 season tent is still only about $1,000.
But truck bed tents do exist, and those would fit easily and are under $500 all day.
Hell, for 3k you could hire someone to haul a tent out to you. Maybe even air drop the damn thing to you.
The self-assembling tent I used to use was only $50.
I need to understand why people still keep giving that man money. Willingly. It’s mind boggling.
I don’t either. People love being shit on I guess. It’s what makes huge companies like Apple and Tesla so popular.
Apple makes some really stupid products that they charge ridiculous money for and their usual stuff is more expensive than it needs to be but at least their core products are of very good quality. The same cannot be said of Tesla
Good quality but still overpriced. You pay for the brand name.
Good quality but still overpriced. You pay for the brand name.
It really is.
I’m just amazed anyone would buy the truck, let alone a $3k tent for it.
Just tattoo idiot on your forehead. At least you’d still have most of your money.
It must be because not everyone follows him around like us on reddit/Lemmy. I think this sort of thing is not reported in mainstream news. So the average person is barely aware of who Elon Musk even is.
Ego dream marketing. Same as any people buying SUVs after seeing an advertisement with a handsome business man in a suite with a big watch driving across the Alpes.
Ego dream marketing
Lol for real, I was thinking just that when I watched the Charger EV commercial.
But then they’re taking off from a traffic light in the Chicago suburbs which at least straightens out the somewhat rough idle that the check engine tape didn’t really fix and the glovebox falls open for the third time that day due to another pothole. Turns out the 20" wheels from the spirit package were wasted money on top of wasted money.
They like being scammed pretty much.
That’s like Bethesda fallout backpack levels of quality
I have one of those 76 “canvas” (vinyl) bags sitting around somewhere. Anytime somebody I know gets excited about a new Bethesda game, I just send them a picture of it and tell them that I’ve got a great bag to sell them.
Actual bagholder lmao
Literally. It’s like owning a piece of video game history like one of the cartridges of ET for the Atari - a shitty piece of video game history about the greed of companies.
Can I see the Pic of the bag?
It feels a lot like one of those bags you get at a con for free, or a jacket that you’d get off of a cheap Chinese website like Alibaba or Temu. That cheap woven plastic type of material.
That’s even worse than I was expecting
I wasn’t surprised that they cheaped out on the bag, most collector’s edition stuff isn’t what I’d call “high quality” and a canvas bag on its own would be pretty pricey for collector’s edition stuff (and that game came with like a full-size helmet and stuff too), but I was really surprised at just how cheap they went. There’s replacing the item with a cheaper alternative, and then there’s lowest bidder from the sweatshops cheap.
Didn’t a lot of them show up moldy, too?
That does sound familiar, but I don’t remember enough to say for sure one way or the other. Mine was fine, just cheap junk and not canvas.
Oooh, me too.
It does literally compare it to that whole debacle in the article
It does? I didn’t see that anywhere
Ah. I use reader mode and it didn’t load the comments. Thanks
Honestly, I didn’t see that whole controversy when it happened and I just looked it up. The final, actually canvas, bag they ended up sending…still seems like a huge ripoff. But that’s just me and I’ve never really seen anything but the monster factory episodes of fallout.
Yeah the whole thing was a sham. So glad I usually buy games after 1 year and on sale.
Same. I gotta update my console though. I bought an Xbox X or S, whichever is the cheaper of the two. And I don’t play many games. Literally like two. RDR2 and fifa. Used to play GTA V but I’m over it. Getting there with rdr2. But I wanted to play the new resident evil 4 remake but it’s “not optimized for this console.”
But now all this talk about PlayStation 5 “reaching the sunset of its career” or whatever Sony said recently and then the whole Microsoft maybe bailing on the Xbox thing, I feel like if I sink the money into a new console soon, I’ll just be getting into another situation where all the things I might want to try are for the NEWER console. I dunno, I’m not a huge gamer, but I still enjoy playing.
I never liked consoles. Even less when they started charging for online play. Like vitch I already bought the fucking game. Let me play it.
I think the worst part is they gave streamers and influencers the actual promised canvas bag. That shows someone made this shitty decision and knew it was shitty.
I had the exact same thought, and was about to make the same post
“Oh god, its the Fallout preorder bags 2: electric car boogaloo”
Pontiac Aztec anyone?
Adding this to my directives. If I’m ever seen sitting underneath a Pontiac Aztec tent in flip-flops, it means I’ve lost the will to live and life supporting measures should be halted. Primarily removing my available oxygen supply via pillow suffocation.
Why so mean? Don’t be the bully! That’s just a random camper dude… What happened that you get PTSD because of flip-flops…?
Frankly he looks like he’s thriving. I’m happy for him
Why you gotta be such a a grumpy douche?
This one looks like a fleshlight. Where can I find dye bleach?
dye bleach 🤔
It was supposed to be eye bleach but I’m keeping the typo, it’s an interesting one.
I’m guessing the dragons fucking cars community didn’t migrate over to lemmy yet
New plan baby. New Pontiac Aztec plan…
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Still, what’s the point of this kind of tent vs a regular one?
That is a chonky boi. Too chonky for their own good 🙁
Ow lad he’s coming
“We’re sorry that you aren’t happy with the tent. The tent shown in the media was a prototype and was too expensive to make. We aren’t planning on doing anything about it.”
OK Elon, thank you! How much money do you need next? No need to tell me for what. Just let me send you some money.
Do you really think they’d get a reply, and not the usual poop emoji?
That’s the famous honest bethesda support reply to giving a cheap nylon carrying bag with a special edition of fallout 76 instead of a high quality canvas one
Light wood laminate!
$3,000 will get you a really nice regular tent
Why spend it on a tiny little swag that sits on your ute back, I can do that already lol
Depending on your requirements (e.g. are you planning on camping in hardcore places or just regular spots in fair weather), you could get not only the tent but all the rest of the camping gear as well for that price.
You can get a good tent for $50, or a tarp and some rope for $30. You can get all your camping stuff for $1000. Less is more with camping.
That walmart tent you buy for 50 aint a good tent, and will either leak like a sieve in the rain, or be so unbreathable as to become an unlivable humidity drenched hotbox from your perspiration and body heat.
You can certainly get a decent one for <$300 though. Which is an order of magnitude less than $3000.
https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Sundome-3-Person-Dome-Tent/dp/B019N9W6EQ
These will last 20 years. They haven’t even changed the design.
Also, why are you camping in crazy ass weather? Like I said, a tarp is even cheaper and better when it’s hot.
Weather is a thing that happens when you’re outdoors.
Camping is not living outdoors permanently. You can choose the dates that you are outside and the place you go, so you can choose the weather too.
Sometimes people go for more than a single day, or you book weeks in advance and have to deal with whatever shit weather you get.
Weather can also suddenly change over a single day.
I have the 2 person version of that tent. It’s me through down pours and wind. The only thing more expensive tents have is easy of set up and tear down.
I know. This other dude doesn’t. Expensive camping gear is just lighter by a few oz. Just carry less.
If you’re taking that shitty truck, from early reports, you aren’t going to anywhere hardcore. Maybe the park down the street.
500 dollars will get you a really nice regular tent.
3000 will get you a fucking glampers dream setup.
Ok, but like… You’re talking about people who’d waste money on buying a “cyber” truck in the first place. At that point it’s like people buying Apple products; it’s less about having the best possible version of the thing and more about having something from Tesla/Musk.
Holy shit this had me laughing hard. Someone paid $3k for that shit? 😂
This is what happens when you let billionaire leeches like Elon make decisions rather than real engineers.
Wait, 3k? My $50 tent is better and larger.
easier to setup and will probably last longer.
This is proveably true since Rivian offers similar gear and those actually work. And they didn’t reinvent the wheel so existing truck tents just work.
Definitely does not have the Steve Jobs talent
Idk, he is still managing to sell way overpriced versions of existing tech to people. Albeit much less polished. His main mistake is exposing himself as an idiot at every opportunity, rather than keeping the mystique to make it seem cool.
The guy single-handedly moved IT from astronomy to astrology in the eyes of masses, thank God he’s dead.
These idiots just line up to be grifted publicly and then willingly drive around advertising that they are broken trash people. Never stop ridiculing these chuds
A theory I follow is that Musk got hold of some findom customer lists and built his customer base from those. His customers love getting financially fucked by that guy.
I finally saw one of these ugly things (the truck), down in Miami a few days ago.
C’mon, Tesla. Pontiac had this shit figured out almost 25 years ago with the Aztek. This isn’t difficult.
Third party Cybertruck tents will probably have an easy time competing.
You’re not paying for a ridiculously expensive novelty vehicle and then getting practical on after market accessories.
Until Musk tries to sue them.
I mean, I’ve seen weirder crap for my car…
I actually kinda like those things.
They were huge at multi day music festivals with camping, probably still are.
You only got so much space for camping, so camping on your car saved space and helped make sure you got a breeze being higher up than everyone.
Like a treefort.
What is this, a house for bees?
Looks like an AI generated monstrosity.
Just like the truck itself
A friend of mine has that one. I was a little surprised to see that the telescope ladder is the exact same as the cheapest one in a discount hardware store. I wonder how much it costs at Audi…
These are weird?
Having it hang over? yeah… little weird…
The rack isn’t even attached to the rails in this picture. So not that weird.
Reminds me of this Top Gear moment.
Hammond had one on his car in the new Prime special Sand Job.
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This looks like a quality tent that won’t fold if someone breathes on it.
Its a continuing mystery to me why people want these vehicle-integrated tents. If you want to go into town for a burrito, you have to break down your camp. If parking is only by the road that’s where you sleep. If parking isn’t level you aren’t sleeping level. Your tent is exposed to road dirt and water all the time. They are way more expensive than a regular tent. They are locked in to one vehicle. They make your gas mileage worse. They are hard to install and remove.
If you could have HVAC in the tent then ok. But sounds like that isn’t a thing here either.
Well I have a hard shell RTT (Autohome) that I love. Gets me off of the ground on a memory foam mattress and it’s well insulated. Very little hit to mileage. I’ve used it on my Jeep Rubicon and now on my Rivian R1S. Takes less than 2 minutes to pop up and I don’t have to worry about wild animals (I camp in bear/mountain lion territory).
But I agree this thing is ridiculous. I read someone else called it a Cyberdiaper lol.
I don’t get the truck bed tents, personally. I guess they might have their use cases for hunters or something who are taking their truck out to the woods anyway, crashing overnight, and getting up at the crack of dawn to shoot Bambi and go home. Or something. But otherwise I don’t see the appeal over just using a regular old tent, which will be both cheaper and considerably more versatile or doing as we used to do and just put a cap on your truck, and throw an air mattress in the back. The cap-and-mattress plan also has the advantage of not needing an actual camp site or anywhere to even put down stakes for a fly; you can just stop in any damn fool sandy/muddy/rocky/wet/paved location you like and there you go.
I almost bought a rooftop tent a few years ago. I was in Snoqualmie in the pouring rain at dusk, because Seattle, just crashing there after driving across the country before moving on the next morning. The guy at the site next to me rocked up with an Xterra with a rooftop tent on it and just folded the thing out and climbed in. Meanwhile I was out there getting drenched working on hammering my tent stakes into the damn hard packed clinker they dump all over the camp sites there. At that exact moment I did not hate any person on earth more than I hated that motherfucker and his rooftop tent.
If it cost like $75 max that’s within realms of sensibility. If I bought that thing for 3000 I’d probably die from embarrassment. It’s like an advertisement for how gullible you are.
I mean, these people did already buy cybertrucks…
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Hey. I’m also old!
Remember when they introduced the hefty hefty cinch sack?
The FLEX!
