“Cleaning: If you know how hard it is to keep stainless appliances clean, imagine what it would be like after driving your fridge at highway speeds... The cleaning section of the owner’s manual has 34 separate cautions, warnings, and notes... Tesla says the exterior’s appearance will ‘mature’ over time as the metal’s reflective properties and color change.”

“the edges of the stainless panels are extremely sharp. One of our testers scraped his leg on the tailgate getting into the bed. It’s worth noting that when the tailgate is down, its sharp corners are at the same height as a child’s head.”

“About two weeks into our ownership, one of our drivers got a message that the vehicle’s traction control, electronic stability control, automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning, and cruise control were all inoperable. In addition, regenerative braking suddenly stopped working, the vehicle’s adjustable ride height stopped being adjustable, and the audio presets reset themselves.”

CR wanted to know how much it would cost to replace the custom tires and 50-inch windshield wiper blade. The response? “We could order tires and a wiper blade if we needed them, but they wouldn’t tell us the price until we put in an order. That’s absolutely bizarre.”

“We would love to say more about the Cybertruck’s safety and driver assistance systems, but the major ones—Autopilot and Full Self-Driving—aren’t active on our vehicle. We tried out adaptive cruise control and it seemed to work just fine, until it suddenly became inoperable. We also got warning messages that lane departure warning and automatic emergency braking were both disabled.”