Cybertruck was first styled after Chevy El Camino as Tesla designers balked at Elon Musk's final shape and drafted their own

[Redaktion]

Early Cybertruck clay prototypes were styled after Chevy's El Camino. Elon Musk deemed a Chevy Silverado-style design for the first electric pickup of Tesla too orthodox and wanted something like the Camino.

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[Gallo123]

The end result is that the exoskeleton idea didn't work and got reworked/delayed. The vehicle ended up being more conventional and more structurally related to the other cars in the range. In other words it has all the downsides of a stainless steel exterior for no reason.