Tesla has seen its sales and production quota dip for the first time during the first quarter of the year since 2021. As such, it needs to do everything in its power to make customers happy(er).
For example, the ultra-hyped Cybertruck all-electric pickup has already received two recall notices from the NHTSA since deliveries started in November 2023 – one of them was fixed over the year, and the other, a faulty accelerator pedal situation, can be resolved in just 35 seconds. Thus, maybe they can do something about those long waiting times next – all Cybertruck variants are now scheduled for delivery in 2025, according to the company's online portal!
No worries, while folks wait for Tesla to get around and to the bottom of these pesky issues, the rumor mill's dedicated and imaginative realm of digital car content creators has creative solutions to ease the wait or to answer the question about what to do next if you've already received a Cybertruck at the doorstep. For example, Vishnu Suresh, the self-taught concept artist behind the zephyr_designz moniker on social media, has been hard at work envisioning an extreme Cybertruck.
Actually, there have been a few different versions of the design project. The first one came to life back in February, and the pixel master did a classic on it, even though it's a freakin' pickup truck: Tesla's Cybertruck morphed into a stealth matte-black street fighter via a traditional JDM-style slammed and widebody transformation. During the morphing, he also "redesigned the front and rear 'polygons' and added a low poly aero widebody kit, side skirts, a front splitter, and a rear diffuser!"
However, maybe that wasn't enough. As such, he made the Internet 'explode' with a normal-to-widebody Transformer-style 3D video and then 'implode' with the fitment of dual exhaust pipes at the rear plus the addition of a twin-turbo flat-six Porsche engine for V2 of his Tesla Cybertruck redesign. Normally, you would think that his third variant – the one that sent the Internet into the stratosphere with almost one million likes – would be called V3, right?
Wrong! Instead, it's called V12 – and for very good reasons. Yep, you guessed it, the CGI expert slapped a V12 engine in the truck's bed and made it 'not eco friendly' as per the writing on the rear wing. It's a rear-engine monster now, complete with pushrod rear suspension, the same slammed and widebody attitude, a V12 engine, and hilarious "Duracell V12 Power" carbon fiber valve covers! Wait, wait, wait, don't go crying your eco-warrior outrage just yet.
There's another option – the latest to arrive in the CGI stable of Cybertruck pickups is the lifted option for those who want to imagine it fighting against the Ford F-150 Raptor R and Ram 1500 TRX. Additionally, it turns out that the imagined Cybertruck is a hybrid V12 model, so some planet-saving is still going on in imagination land.
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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