The Cybertruck Disaster Nobody Saw Coming

Описание: In 2019, Elon Musk promised a $39,900 pickup, tougher than an F-150 and faster than a Porsche. A
factory in Texas was rebuilt to make 250,000 of them a year. In the first quarter of 2026, it sold
3,519 — and nearly one in five American Cybertrucks that quarter was bought by SpaceX and other
companies Musk controls.

This is the story of how the most hyped truck of the decade became one of the biggest product
failures in automotive history — a bulletproof glass that shattered on stage, a stainless steel that
rusts in the rain, eleven recalls in twenty-six months, and a resale value that collapses 38% in a
year. The Ford Edsel, the industry's byword for failure, outsold it.

Welcome to Fall of Empires — where we tell the rise, the reign, and the ruin of the world's biggest
empires. Every quarter of a fortune hides a decision nobody wanted to question.

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