Christmas Spirit? Super Duty Ford F-Series Saves Stuck Tesla Cybertruck
‘Tis the season … for being embarrassed.
A Tesla Cybertruck made what turned out to be a very wrong turn in California’s Stanislaus National Forest this week and of course the aftermath was caught on camera.
Matt Chambers posted video and photos of the pickup’s predicament shot by friends to his instagram account.
The truck was a company-owned Release Candidate, which means it was a pre-production vehicle, and was being driven by Tesla staff, according to Chambers.
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The incident occurred on the Corral Hollow OHV Trail. Well, adjacent to the trail. The truck can be seen carrying a Christmas tree in its bed as it struggles to climb a hill covered in a thin layer of snow.
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It’s not clear if its underbody is caught on anything, but the traction management system and all-terrain tires just can’t find enough traction as Chamber’s friend’s F-Series Super Duty tries to help pull it free.
A software issue had disabled the locking differential feature and the truck wasn’t equipped with the recovery hooks that are found on the final production models, so the tow straps had to be attached to its suspension parts.
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The scene was the opposite of a stunt Tesla pulled when the original Cybertruck prototype was revealed in 2019 and it had a tug of war with a Ford F-150 … on a dry road.
One thing the Cybertruck does have in common with the Super Duty that saved it is that they are both classified as heavy duty pickups.
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