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Jaclyn Trop

I drove Tesla's apocalyptic Cybertruck through L.A. to figure out why it exists

(Credit: Kyle Grillot—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Five years after Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled plans for his polarizing Cybertruck, I found myself standing in a downtown Los Angeles parking lot on an afternoon in July, surveying the automaker’s surrealist take on the electric utility vehicle: a triangular behemoth, sharp-angled and brutalist.

Its wide, unpainted, stainless-steel body boasts a massive windshield and nary a curve throughout, and it has managed to draw comparisons to both the Eiffel Tower and a preschooler’s loose-leaf sketch. 

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