A bugman saying he expects a 100,000 dollar vehicle to "not be feature complete" and that a 'software update' may be needed to prevent it from sliding down a small incline is classic.

Every time someone is struggling, a Subaru comes along to make their day worse.

You just scared everyone from ever buying a cybertruck but subarus stock just went up. Thanks. Enlightening video.

That scrappy Subaru kicked the Cybertrucks ass, I am dying laughing here

Ive got to say. If you wanted to make an ad for how terrible the cybertruck is, you did it here. You made Subaru and Toyota look good too.

“You don’t need to spend $80,000 to go out on the trails and have some fun” Every Subaru owner ever:”…yeah”

It's not surprising that a Subaru is better off-roading than a Tesla. Subaru's reputation is well earned.

Not trying to pile on but I am shocked how bad it did. I have taken my Tacoma over harder stuff while still in 2WD.

I love that a Subaru car with a inexperience driver there to out perform your 100k truck. An experienced driver could do this drive in a 2 wheel drive car.

I cant believe it has taken this long to finally get an off road video of this truck. Thanks sir

You said a seasoned driver would do better with the Cyberjunk,but the Subaru driver was new to off roading.

“Here is my honest Cybertruck Review. Also, here is an ad for my business which is dépendant on people not thinking this thing is a piece of shit that any other truck in the world would have eclipsed up a minor hill” I really loved when it couldn’t get up a hill but you’re certain a software update would make sure it could. Also “it went downhill fine!” Is amazing too. Fucking classic.

Apparently what distinguishes a cybertruck from a regular truck is the need for extensive beta testing.

I would’ve made it up that hill in my Chrysler 300. lol

4th Gen native Arizonan here. In the sixties, my mom would drive a good 40 mph on dirt roads all over the state in our Plymouth station wagon, sometimes with terrified &/or happy Cub Scouts on board. We own a fair amount of desert land in the state. We got stuck once. It was quickly solved with pieces of mesquite, branches of creosote and an entrenching tool. It seems vaguely ridiculous how useless this vehicle is for most applications. It seems best suited to sitting in a garage and be doted upon by those who have $120k plus to throw around. For off-road, I'll take my RAV4 any day off the week.

Im underwhelmed by the truck. The hype did not meet reality. But. Much respect to the owner enjoying his purchase and not treating the truck as simply a trophy car to garage.

So lame that people are willing to be ok with a mediocre product just because they are in love with the creator😂😂

I'm really surprised just how poorly it performed there! dDiff lockers shouldn't really be needed in a situation like that too, lots of off-roaders don't even have them (that Subaru being a perfect example). To be honest though it looks more like something that could be fixed via software updates - I don't think the Tesla engineers probably have the experience programming off-road conditions compared that Rivian, for example.

Oh, and I've been over that same bump in a 1964 VW Baja Bug.

The ability to believe in something despite evidence or facts is one of humanity's greatest strengths and also it's greatest weaknesses. It allows us to achieve what may seem impossible but also allows us to live a life of complete delusion wasting away years of our lives and flushing our hard-earned money down the toilet.

Dude…that tiny hill 😂 Tesla would have paid a lot of only for that video to not come out. That’s hilarious.

Thing has zero suspension travel. @7:19 the way wheel just comes off of the ground shows it has no downward travel. It reminds me of taking a skateboard offroad.

LMFAO! Cybertruck: "Oh driver's getting out, must be a supermarket. Go to car park mode!"

Subarus are amazing off-roaders…. Just shows even more how good they are. I’m honestly shocked at how bad the cyber truck preformed… also the lockers are not needed, Subaru doesn’t have lockers on any of their vehicles.

Follow what the wheels are doing. The Toyota and Subaru both maintain good wheel to ground contact so can maintain traction. The Tesla reaches the extent of travel, wheel unloads and spins, then is left hanging in the air. All the software updates in the world won't help if the wheels can't stay firmly on the ground in this comparatively tame bit of landscape.

It needs lockers enabled but the Subaru had no issues. Lol

I really appreciate this guy's positivity. Because holy shit my impression is that this truck sucks balls. Anyone who's driven a work truck in the bush is going to laugh at this.

Exactly what I expected from a rolling fridge hahaha

I took my Subaru Outback Wilderness to Hidden Falls after getting it and was quite surprised at how capable it is after seeing nothing but Broncos, 4Runners, and Jeeps out there

Ah yes, the old "I'm not sure the Subaru is gonna make it" and then it makes it. I've heard that a lot!

"Hey, this car isn't really good - but I signed the NDA, so I have to pretend to like it"

Cudos for actually taking this thing off-road. It did horribly on that hill. Really terrible. Traction control on any softroading AWD could handle that with brake based torque vectoring. I’d love to see a roller slip test to see what’s actually going on there. To me though it looked like power was cutting out. Maybe the system protecting the motors. Which might explain why they aren’t allowing the diff to lock, the motors might not be able to take it. There’s more than one problem here for sure.

Great video. All I can think is this truck is half baked. No locking diff, no auto pilot and missing so many features that were announced in 2019.

Don’t be dissing Crosstreks mate, they’re surprisingly good off road stock. I’ve done some really wacky shit in mine (granted, mine’s absolutely not a stock Crosstrek at all) and it has continued to impress me.

Look how stiff that suspension is. Wooooow.

Did the other vehicles have to remove things ?

what's with the suspension? right wheel is completely off the ground going up a tiny incline.

I bet you can get those new parts from Tesla for $12,000.

Good on you, for honest assessment, and taking cybertruck off-road. Thanks

OP paid so much money to be a tester for Tesla... For a car they wont change.

Seems the Subaru off road better it’s what I get from this video

Tesla are you watching? You got showed up by a Subaru 😂..you had 4 years between revealing to launching, and a small incline is the downfall! YO TESLA! 😅

Weird that you have to remove mud flaps. The Japanese SUV makers are shaking their heads. LOL!

That truck should be able to crawl up that incline. The tech is not new (Toyota ATRAC, Subaru brake vectoring, whatever magic Nissan does) and involves applying brake to the spinning wheel. I can't see it being any different than it would be on a ice awd vehicle unless you had the three motor variant.

Wow. I don’t know much of off-roading as a hobby, but my dad used to work as a TV broadcast antenna technician in the Chilean Atacama desert, and I accompanied him to work during summer vacation. I tell you: this thing wouldn’t have lasted 10 minutes on the roads my dad used to traverse on an old Suzuki Vitara.

For $100k, I would definitely expect a feature complete car.

That was less than impressive.

The fact that it pops out of off-road mode when you get out of the vehicle is insane. It makes you wonder if any of the product designers have ever been off-roading before. In a technical situation with no spotter you are frequently hopping out to check your line. What a huge miss. Thankfully I assume it's easily patched with a software update.

Crosstrek = no diff locker, and it did just fine 😊

The Subaru is designed through years of real world rally championships and not by a bunch of needs in an office :)

My old 1971 VW bus was one of the best offroad vehicles I have owned. I took that thing places it never should have gone and never got stuck or broke anything.

The fact that little subcompact AWD crossover made it up. Ouch.

I can't wait to see the first EV nerd who's never been off-roading haul one of these out to Moab.

Very fair and honest video. It does not say much for the Cybertruck that a road car like the Crosstrek outperformed it off-road

I'm 90% certain my Mazda5 could make it up that with the right attach angle. Though I have a lot of off-road experience. This is just sad for any truck. I pre-ordered 2+ years ago and cancelled for a ton of reasons one of which being it doesn't even seem like a truck.

The Trunk did great going down hill, awesome! My goodness I’ll bet you bought one of those silly flamethrowers too!

It is not designed to be a truck. More like a bloated golf cart.

Tesla should comp you for those flaps considering the lack of info in the manual..

With that giant, expensive battery underneath it, there's no way I would take the Cybertruck off-road without the bolt-on skid plates, which should be standard equipment but aren't.

"Airing down to 30psi" Damn thats still high and what I keep my truck tires at daily for on/offroad. I air down to around 15-18psi when offroading

Well done! Thank you for showing us your experience.

Mud flaps should be spring retracted instead of hard bolted and required to remove for off-roading.

To be fair, the mudflaps on my tacoma got destroyed when I went offroad as well but it was definitely on a more technical course than that. I just run flap-less now.

Paying this much money for a half backed product..Musked

I’ve off roaded there in my Ram 1500 4x4 with 2 inch lift and rear locker. Place is legit. And my son made it up to the top of that same peak with a 2wd Xterra. All Xterras have a limited slip rear diff and mine has a locking rear diff. Your truck couldn’t make it up without lockers while the Subaru could because of the weight. CT is probably 2x the weight of the Subaru. What I’ve learned is full size tucks with 4 doors do not make good off-roaders. They are too big and heavy. And also yeah, you will break something nearly every time you do it. But what they are great at is IF you find yourself wanting to go farther down that road that’s is muddy so you can keep exploring or you need to drive on snow and ice or you need to pull somebody out, they are great. To go purposely off roading, you want something skinnier and shorter and lighter, like a jeep. I love having 4wd on my truck because I can go way farther than 2wd, but it ain’t no Jeep Rubicon. Just like your CT, the weight, width, and long wheelbase will get it stuck. Glad u went to Hidden Falls though. That place is pretty cool. You should post how much juice it used per mile.

Mud flaps are behind the wheels to prevent spray, and aero fairings are in front to reduce drag. Tesla is using correct terminology, and so should you from here on, for the viewer's sake. Nice video; I agree with your complaint about unwanted settings changing when you get out. It should only reset after power off or provide a Nag screen asking you if you want to stay in a precious setting, like my F-150. Looking forward to your next video.

Nice to hear your CyberTruck had no problems going downhill and splashing through mud.

This is hilarious! You spent 100k on a electric trashcan. I'm not a ford guy but the ford raptor R is 100% a beast for off road

I just don't understand why the suspension is so stiff, I thought this thing was supposed to be a beast at off-roading

lol 😅my $1400 1996 Toyota truck could make it up that hill without a struggle

the thing i really hate with tesla is that they really never made a hardcore offroad video, it was all about 0-60 which no one cares about in the truck community! just look at land rover, they have an offroad training center no joke!

We’re glad y’all had a fun time! Seen a few electric vehicles out here and even had Tesla out testing their diff lock software and comparing it to yours it was handling the terrain better. Definitely has the power, would be interesting to see them with a lift and ability to shut off the rear wheel turning (saw that cause the tires to shift off line). Also they lost their mud flaps too😂

I would be really interested in an electric Subaru or a boutique electric dune buggy. Not an off-road guy but agree initiating diff locks really seem like they'd solve a lot of those lose little hill bumps. I don't have any on my truck and rely on momentum and careful pre-planning. And luck.

It's easy to have an software update to deal with this problem. But the Subaru dont need any

The whole "diff locker" b.s that Subaru is only AWD no locker this truck is useless across the board. Thank you for the clarification

So stoked I don't have to wait for some magical update to show up when I need my truck to perform better.

This is what happens when you let 20 somethings with little experience design stuff and not bother actually testing it properly.

Luke Skywalker: What a piece of junk! Han Solo: Yeah.

"Remove mud flaps before off-roading" is probably the most hilarious statement I have heard about this contraption. 🤣🤣🤣

The Cybertruck is literally just a meme by now.

I'm impressed. A practical, utilitarian vehicle that's also pretty capable offroad.... Might just get a Crosstrek as my next vehicle.

still cant wrap my head around how they can ship the cybertruck with the lockable diffs but the only thing not finished is the software to turn it on : P were u in high or extract mode? maybe mention it next time, i wonder if theres also a stiffnes & power distribution difference between high and extract mode, besides the limited 10 mph speed. software seems to be the biggest problem to me, the truck is not putting as much power down as you want it to, diffs or not. doesnt seem like the software will let you brute force it and go up the hill with all 4 slipping. seems like future software updates could, maybe, make a huge difference.

Thanks for sharing!

I can just see it going through a grocery store parking lot..Oh no it's a speed bump!! We need more software more tech more updates or we're not gonna make it!!! 😂😂😂

"I want to go completely off the grid with this truck to see exactly what it can do." RIP VoyageATX. We hardly knew you.

Try keep the door ajar when you close it the truck so will stay on and not change modes! Just press the door opening button to fully unlatch it

Also see if you can add add on like an electric winch or a bull bar skid plate

Glad you had fun at Hidden Falls. I've been there but I have a moded jeep built to rock crawl. There are some very difficult obstacles out there. Think you got the wheeling bug now.

This truck has been such a let down from the range to off roading capabilities etc... I watched a video where someone got 90 miles towing a loaded trailer. 100% state of charge down to 2%. Unrealistic scenario as the truck isn't supposed to be charged to 100% frequently and no one is going to want to risk going all the way down to 2%. So maybe a more realistic scenario is around 70-80 miles while towing. So terrible. I am so disappointed in this truck. Battery technology needs further advancements before there will be a truck with enough range at an affordable price. At the moment this truck is more of a toy than a useful work truck unless you are a contractor who only works within city limits. Thoughts from a Tesla fan/investor and someone who grew up on a farm.

Aweosme video, been loving seeing all the stuff you’re finding out ab the truck!

To be fair, the Subaru Crosstrek best’s a lot of other vehicles out on the trails. The best of class AWD system and small size of that vehicle makes it extremely capable

I thought this video was very fair. I'm looking forward to watching more of your adventures.

Thanks for showing us this and having the balls to off-road your expensive new truck. I agree with you that all of the problems you had can and will be fixed with software updates and nobody is better at over the air software updates than Tesla. I have an old beater Jeep Grand Cherokee as my off road toy. The hobby of off-roading can suck you in and there is no limit to the depth of it. No matter how well you build your rig there will always be someone with a more capable rig. Something to realize is every mod you make for better off road performance will make it perform worse at other things. So what I'm trying to say is it's OK to have a truck with finite but reasonable off road capability and be fine with it. Your truck is plenty capable and will get better with updates. I use my Jeep to go to cool places as opposed to the hard trail being the destination in itself. So a 2" lift and 31" tires is all of my mods and it is more than capable enough for what I'm doing. I look forward to whatever adventures you find in the new truck.

Major foul from Tesla shipping a truck with such incomplete software.

This is why i would take a rivian if you want to off road, they put it front and center from the start, at tesla its an afterthought.. literally released the truck and then started thinking about off road features

First of all- I am not a fan of the Cybertruck but am not a Tesla hater. I also a Subaru Outback owner. Thanks for posting this and being honest with what you have found out about it. What I am seeing is a company (Tesla) that did not do its homework, does not apparently understand the market (offroaders and boondockers) and was more interested in the radical looks than the capability of the design. I think your money would have been better spent on the Rivian if you wanted an EV truck.

Poor wheel articulation, road biased tyres, and no difflock will kill offroad performance. This is definitely a more road biased trucks which is fine. You just got to accepts the compromises - something that performs very well offroad is usually awful on the road...

They're not mud flaps, they're aero fairings.

So when are you going to tackle the Baja race. Didn't Elon say that the Tonka Truck could do that easy?

Maybe can add some of those wireless dash buttons and assign them to off/on-road mode? Agree though Tesla really needs to make the toggle persistent and an easy one button press from the shortcut bar.