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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The angular, polarizing design of the Cybertruck will help boost the Tesla brand, the electric vehicle maker\u2019s chief designer said on Thursday, adding that the pickup was no experiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove it or hate it, it\u2019s a conversation starter, and it gets people talking about the brand,\u201d Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen said at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, which is adding Cybertruck models to a Tesla exhibit.<\/p>\n

The long-delayed Cybertruck starts at a price of $60,990, over 50% more than what CEO Elon Musk had touted in 2019, with a smaller range than originally promised.<\/p>\n

But it is drawing interest from people who have never owned a truck, with some potential owners queuing up for it at some Tesla showrooms, von Holzhausen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because it looks different doesn\u2019t mean that it can\u2019t be potentially a high volume vehicle,\u201d he added, saying the pick-up measures up to the performance of traditional rivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere seems to be this air of doubt.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re bringing people into the market that never would have owned a truck before,\u201d von Holzhausen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an experiment.<\/p>\n

\u201d The stainless-steel clad truck is all angles, in part because a traditional press can\u2019t bend the steel into curves.<\/p>\n

The Lamborghini Countach, also an aggressively angular car, had also inspired the design, as had Lockheed\u2019s F-117 Stealth Fighter jet, von Holzhausen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like it shouldn\u2019t do what it does, yet, intelligent engineers figured it out,\u201d he said of the F-117.<\/p>\n

The Tesla design studio was also inspired by the car-turned-submarine in the 1977 James Bond movie \u201cThe Spy Who Loved Me,\u201d which Musk bought. The Cybertruck\u2019s launch has not been without glitches.<\/p>\n

In 2019, von Holzhausen threw a metal ball at the truck during at its launch event, shattering two of its fortified glass windows. At another an event last month where the first trucks were delivered, he lobbed a baseball at the windows without any damage.<\/p>\n

A recent viral video also showed the Cybertruck carrying a Christmas-tree being pulled up a slope it was unable to climb by a gasoline-powered car. Von Holzhausen, however, defended the car, saying his kids love being picked up from school in the Cybertruck, and he has been mistaken for Musk by people when driving it.<\/p>\n

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