This black Tesla Cybertruck AWD, the lower priced of the two we keep in Orange County, is wrapped over bare stainless steel and reads identical to our other Cybertruck from the street. Strangers walk over at a stop near South Coast Plaza to ask about it. Steer by wire means your hands never leave nine and three on a wide Irvine street.
Steer by wire is the thing that takes adjustment. There is no mechanical connection between the wheel and the front tyres, so the software decides the ratio, and at parking speed a small movement turns the vehicle a long way while at freeway speed the same movement barely does anything. Try a U-turn on a wide Irvine street and your hands never leave nine and three, even at full lock. Dual motors give 600 horsepower and a 4.1 second run to sixty in something the size of a pickup. Everything about how it works is a departure, and after ten minutes going back to a normal car feels slow.
The black wrap over the bare stainless separates this truck from the silver Cybertrucks people have mostly seen on a screen. Instead of mirroring the sky, it reads as a flat, shadowed block, which suits a night shoot or a garage far better than direct midday sun. The light bar running the full width of the front is the signature element after dark, and it reads best against an Irvine parking structure or a dim Costa Mesa side street. This is the lower daily rate of our two Cybertrucks, which makes it the value way into the shape without giving up any of the reaction.
The less expensive of our two Cybertrucks by a hundred dollars a day, and the shape is identical, which is what people are actually booking. Same wrapped stainless body, same steer by wire, same dual motor drivetrain and the same 4.1 second run to sixty. From across a parking lot in Orange County nobody can tell this one from our other Cybertruck, and most of what people are reacting to is the shape rather than the specification underneath it. Book this one if the point is showing up in the most unusual vehicle on the road, and the fuller equipment set on our other truck is not worth the extra hundred dollars a day to you.
This is the dual motor Cybertruck AWD, with 600 horsepower and a claimed 4.1 second run to sixty. Steer by wire replaces the usual mechanical link between the wheel and the front axle, giving a 340 degree lock to lock ratio that changes with speed. The body is bare stainless steel finished in a black wrap rather than paint. Standard on this drivetrain is the powered tonneau over the six foot bed, in bed power outlets, a rear touchscreen and air suspension. Five seats, four doors, all wheel drive.