Comment by 2muchcoffeeman
7 years ago
How old are you? This Reminds of what we thought the future would look like in the 80s.
I’d totally buy a reasonably priced car with this aesthetic.
7 years ago
How old are you? This Reminds of what we thought the future would look like in the 80s.
I’d totally buy a reasonably priced car with this aesthetic.
Not only 80s! Plenty of sci-fi shows had something similar as a generic future car design base, except with a proper paint job and extra lights here and there. This car can be easily turned into something that looks properly modern.
Related, this seems to be something of a theme with Musk's companies. Landing rockets is an old-school concept, and Starship looks like it was taken straight from the cover of some pulp sci-fi work from the 60s.
Your latter observation is not surprising. The 60s-80s were times of confidence in the future, in progress. We visited the moon, flied in supersonic airliners, and we were confident that we would keep exploring always further, always faster.
Now that spirit has largely faded away, the West seems to have lost faith in progress in exploration and is focused in preserving what we already have - sometimes for good reasons (environmentalism and fight against climate change), sometimes not (disproportionate attention to minor threats like terrorism, fear of immigration, etc.)
Musk clearly still believes in progress and exploration, hence it's not surprising that his designs end up evoking reminiscences from that era.
The 80s were when we thought the US and the USSR would kill all of humankind with H-bombs. Blade Runner if what we thought the future would look like if we were lucky enough to have one.
And this new Tesla seems reminiscent to me of that pessimistic idea of the future, trying to survive the apocalypse on Earth. Not like the optimistic future of 2001 A Space Odyssey.
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Yes, the only way Starship could look more retro futuristic would have been to use the ticket from Tintin:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/The_Adv...
Born in the 80s but old enough to remember the end of them. If what you're saying is that in producing what is a very futuristic truck design, especially compared to the current market, that Musk is actually evoking a sense of nostalgia from a demographic likely to be the target market then I can't say I'd disagree.
I fear Musk wants to recreate all those future visions he's seen in eighties movies and tv shows in his childhood. If his next product is the Airwolf helicopter I feel vindicated.
I almost laughed out loud, I love the cybertruck but man it's so blatant. It feels like someone just blurted out a hilarious joke and you want to laugh out loud but you kind of glance at those next to you to see "is this ok with you people"?
It's definitely tapping into current retro-futurism that is super focused on vaporwave/80s stuff. It's a phase that I wouldn't personally bet on, because at the time they were simply projecting what they thought the future would look like, and were just wrong.
Were they wrong if this truck hits the streets next year? I'd say they were right on the money.
Eat your heart out Baudrillard
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> and were just wrong.
Not anymore!
the fact it looks like a truck version of the DMC DeLorean doesn't help either.
A delorean crossed with a big trak. Reminds me of the old battlestar galactica shuttles.
It's defiantly got a Cylon vibe going on...
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It’s a Delorean El Camino.
Fitting that it's released in November 2019, the month nad year the original Bladerunner was set in
Uh, how can I, being a hardcore Bladerunner fan, not have spotted this? Thanks.
>How old are you? This Reminds of what we thought the future would look like in the 80s.
As soon as I saw it I thought "dystopian future military transport". Then I remembered Blade Runner is set this month, of this year, and uncharacteristically giggled.
It's Brutalism with a wheel at each corner. Not gonna lie, I kinda love it.
I like it, but I think the wheels look too small. If the wheels were like, bigger, it would look fucking cool.
Those are 35" wheels. This thing has got to be absolutely oppressive in person.
Heh just wait for the Urban Warfare edition that adds mace dispensers above the windows...
I noticed this too, the tires just doesn't fit very well in the overall design.
That's an interesting change from the 50's retro scifi look.
Looks like Ark II style scifi from the 80s.
It reminds me of the Vector.