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Tesla's engineers hated the Fuglytruck

This comes from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk, via Insider. Isaacson spoke with Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla design lead, who said the engineering team’s response to the angular, steel body was less than positive. From Insider:

“A majority of the people in this studio hated it,” von Holzhausen said of the futuristic design, according to the book. “They were like, ‘You can’t be serious.’ They didn’t want to have anything to do with it. It was just too weird.”

Some Tesla engineers even took to covertly designing another version of the electric pickup after they saw a mock-up of the futuristic truck on display at SpaceX’s showroom in Los Angeles during the summer of 2019, Isaacson, who shadowed Musk for three years, wrote.

You know you’ve nailed a vehicle design when all your engineers begin their own skunkworks project to fix it.