Published 19:31 IST, November 27th 2019
Lego mocks Tesla with its own 'shatterproof' truck following the company's botched event
Lego trolled Tesla with its own lego bricks "shatterproof" truck after Tesla's botched up November 21 launch event of its new electric Cybertruck in Los Angeles
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Lego has joined in on many trolling Tesla after its botched up launch event of its new electric Cybertruck in Los Angeles. Lego debuted its own "shatterproof" truck. Lego assembled a car with its widely popular interlocking plastic bricks and added plastic wheels to it to mock Tesla as ir cyber track has been built with stainless steel used in rockets.
Lego trolls Tesla
toy production company posted on its official Facebook p with a caption stating that evolution of truck is here with a guaranteed shatterproof model.
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Lego's post garnered more than 12,000 likes with one person commenting that lego cyber track looked much better than Tesla's version of electric cyber truck.
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Musk's stunt backfires
Tesla launched its first electric pickup truck on vember 21 at an event in Los Angeles but things did t pan out well for co-founder Elon Musk. He called Tesla's head designer Franz von Holzhausen onto st to throw a big metal ball at side window in order to showcase strength of vehicle's armoured glass windows. Musk's stunt backfired on him as "armoured" glass windows were left with huge cracks.
Musk was apparently surprised by what had happened and said that throw was maybe a little bit hard. According to reports, he told audience that windows had t cracked in tests that were previously conducted. Musk added that in previous tests, y had literally thrown everything at window including kitchen sink and armoured glass did t break.
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Musk responds to a fan
Responding to a fan's tweet, Musk stated that impact of sledgehammer resulted in a crack at base of glass because of which steel ball did t bounce off window and added that next time he will use a metal ball first instead of using a sledgehammer.
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(With inputs from ncies)
17:33 IST, November 27th 2019