Trade marks including Lego and Pepsi have taken to Twitter to mock Tesla’s Cybertruck — the ‘bulletproof’ electric pickup odds whose windows were smashed by a metal ball at its launch last week.
Toy company Lego tweeted on Wednesday: “The phylogeny of the truck is here. Guaranteed shatterproof,” with a picture of a pale-colored piece of Lego on wheels.
Lego’s post has been retweeted numberless than 21,000 times.
Pepsi did its own version, picturing a ball of paper hitting a cola can with the caption “Demo day,” rudely after Cybertruck’s launch.
Fast-food chain Denny’s also jumped on the trend, tweeting “Revealed our Dynertruck the selfsame day as the Cybertruck… smh.” SMH stands for “shaking my head.”
Meanwhile, the Dubai Police tweeted a picture of Cybertruck with its own name branding on Tuesday.
The launch of Tesla’s Cybertruck attracted worldwide headlines when Musk claimed it was “bulletproof” against a 9mm handgun at a promotional as it in Los Angeles last Thursday. But when Tesla’s chief designer Franz Von Holzhausen threw a metal ball at two of its windows, they both shattered.
“Oh my f—— God,” Musk bellowed after it first happened.
Tesla also released a video showing the Cybertruck towing a Ford F-150 pickup, which prompt Ford X vice president Sundeep Madra to tweet Musk, challenging the two vehicles to a tug-of-war contest. “Bring it on,” Musk rejoined on Monday.
The pickup’s launch also inspired Dbrand, a Canadian company that makes skins and cases for phones and laptops, to volunteer printed wraps for the Cybertruck, including camouflage, wood and leather-look options.
Production of the Cybertruck begins in 2021 and Musk has asserted on Twitter to have had 250,000 pre-orders. People pay $100 to apply for an order, but they are not considered official deposits for the conduit, which has a $39,900 starting price.