Hagerty's latest episode of 'Jason Cammisa on the ICONS' features the Tesla Cybertruck, possibly the world's quirkiest vehicle currently in production – and also one of the fastest, despite its edgy shape.
Some say the Tesla Cybertruck – which took four years from its original presentation in November 2019 to achieve the first (limited) deliveries in late November 2023- is nothing but Elon Musk's vanity project and style statement. Yep, they could be right – this guy sent his original Tesla Roadster into space, remember?
However, others preferred to skip past that part after calling Musk the world's most affluent man-child and went right into the midst of the fun part of an initial review – racing! Yep, Hagerty's 'Jason Cammisa on the ICONS' is cinema material, an almost perfect blend of wits, journalist professionalism, entertainment, comedy, drama, and craziness.
It may not be that exclusive – since most journalists invited to the event also had the opportunity to review the Tesla Cybertruck or race it, but Jason Cammisa bundled everything you could ask from an initial contact with the latest EV superstar – if you had unlimited access to anything the heart desired and also a seemingly endless production budget.
As far as the location is concerned, Sonoma Raceway's road course and quarter-mile dragstrip located in the southern Sonoma Mountains of Sonoma County, California, at Sears Point, was more than adequate to present this futuristic vehicle that feels like it belongs to both Cyberpunk 2077 and the Mad Max universe at the same time.
This is probably the most fun-to-watch and comprehensive in-depth first review of the Tesla Cybertruck – it includes everything from explaining the engineering behind the controversial full-size EV pickup truck to Camissa "backing into a stainless-steel refrigerator because the Cybertruck's rear visibility is so compromised."
Yep, they did that too, and lots more - Hall-of-Fame racecar driver Randy Pobst and "Engineering Explained" host Jason Fenske also appear during the EV show; there's also a 'Rambo Lambo' Lamborghini LM002 pickup trying to keep up with the modern times, and Camissa saw a live side-impact crash test in Tesla's Crash Lab then went on trying to 'kill' the truck with a sledgehammer – "or BFH, for those who know."
However, we are here for only one thing – to see if the Cybertruck Cyberbeast is indeed "the quickest-accelerating pickup truck in history." For that, Camissa confronted the top-spec Tesla Cybertruck with 845 hp against the 1,000-hp GMC Hummer EV and also fought the previous champion – the 835-hp quad-motor Rivian R1T. Lighter than both of them – and also the Ford F-150 Lightning (of course, they included one, too) – the Cybertruck is now the unofficial reigning champion of the quarter-mile dragstrip world of EV pickup trucks. Cool, right?
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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