---
title: "The Cybertruck Has a Small Issue With Looking Like Complete Garbage"
description: "Tesla has finally showed off the first Cybertruck to roll off the assembly line -- but it's fit and finish are looking rough."
date: "2023-07-19"
modified: "2023-07-19"
authors:
  - name: "Sharon Adarlo"
    job_title: "Correspondent"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/sadarlo"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-looking-rough"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "cybertruck"
  - "elon musk"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# The Cybertruck Has a Small Issue With Looking Like Complete Garbage

![Tesla has finally showed off the first Cybertruck to roll off the assembly line -- but it's fit and finish are looking rough.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cybertruck-looking-rough.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Tesla/Futurism\</em\>*

## Spendy Lemon

Tesla's Cybertruck has finally rolled out of the assembly line after years of delay, announced [via a triumphant tweet](<https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1680121747910148099>) accompanied by a photo of smiling autoworkers posing around the vehicle. But a zoomed in view of the Cybertruck clearly shows that the front passenger door doesn't align with the rear one — yet another sign that quality control remains a struggle for Tesla, especially with its brutalist attempt at an electric pickup.

When Tesla tweeted the photo over the weekend, the car news website *Autoevolution* [pointed out](<https://www.autoevolution.com/news/first-tesla-cybertruck-to-roll-off-the-assembly-line-at-giga-texas-has-a-misaligned-door-218094.html>) the misalignment in the image, complete with a red circle to focus on the glaring door issue. Yikes.

"Let's hope this is a one-time thing, and Tesla won't have to deal with too many rejected deliveries because of fit and finish issues," the site wrote.

With Tesla and its CEO-slash-figurehead Elon Musk risking a ton on the success of the Cybertruck, which is all-electric and positioned to go after the lucrative pickup truck sector dominated by Ford's popular F-series, it's absolutely head-scratching that the company would allow the ostensibly first consumer-ready Cybertruck to leave the factory with an obvious flaw.

## Janky Record

From the beginning, Tesla has suffered mishaps and flaws. Its cars have been dinged for a whole host of issues, ranging from [bad panel alignment](<https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-owner-details-quality-control-issues-remains-supporter-2021-9>) to the plague of reports involving [Tesla's questionably-named feature Autopilot](<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/>) and [Full Self-Driving](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-self-driving-stop-signs-school-buses>).

Will the Cybertruck manage to succeed in spite of that narrative? It doesn't look good for the boxy, futuristic vehicle — if we have to go by the misaligned door in the fresh factory model, [the janky-looking prototype](<https://staging.bsky.app/profile/artofcoop.bsky.social/post/3k2qwjpejct2w>) on display at the [Petersen Automotive Museum](<https://www.petersen.org/tesla-cybertruck>), and [the infamous demo](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udxR5rBq_Vg>) featuring the Cybertruck's armor glass window shattering on impact from a metal ball.

If we had to call it now, the future of the boundary-pushing vehicle looks pretty janky.

**More on the Cybertruck:** [*Cybertruck With Camouflage Pattern Spotted at In-N-Out Drive-Thru*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-camouflage-pattern>)