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Texas Monthly – At the World’s First Cybertruck Rodeo, Flamethrowers Are Toys and Winning Is a Way of Life

Texas Monthly – At the World’s First Cybertruck Rodeo, Flamethrowers Are Toys and Winning Is a Way of Life

Posted on June 4, 2024

They know you think they’re members of a personality cult and that their $100,000 truck looks like it was designed by a drunk toddler. They’ve seen the stories about their vehicles getting coal-rolled or their stainless steel bodies targeted by vandals. They also know that somehow—during a period in American history so polarized that elected leaders are calling for a “national divorce”—the very sight of their futuristic-looking truck is enough to unite some progressive-leaning Americans and staunch conservatives in an unlikely coalition of mutual contempt. Over the last few months, Cybertruck owners have been on the receiving end of so much hate—typically in the form of middle fingers from their fellow motorists—that they say they understand your anger better than you do. The truth, they claim,…

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