The Farewell Tour Is Underway! Or Is This Now the Encore? 😂🎸

THE SHOW MUST GO ON! APPARENTLY, SO MUST THE SALES PITCH!

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the greatest automotive farewell tour since somebody invented the phrase FINAL CHANCE TO BUY! And tonight’s headliner is none other than the stainless-steel rock star of the pickup truck world.

THE TESLA CYBERTRUCK!

Let’s review the concert schedule.

• NOVEMBER 6: Elon announces that Cybertruck production will wind down around the middle of 2027. Let’s make way for the Cybercab!
• NOVEMBER 9: WAIT! Orders are apparently pouring in faster than Tesla can build the trucks. Some customers might even have their deposits returned!
• NOVEMBER 11: ENCORE! ENCORE! We’re extending production through the end of summer 2027!

Where are The Beach Boys when you need them to showcase this ENDLESS SUMMER tour? 🤣

THIS THING HAS MORE FAREWELL TOURS THAN A LEGENDARY ROCK BAND!

And you know what? As The Cool Car Guy, who owns and created this website, and a former car dealer, I LOVE IT!

Because there’s an old sales technique that has been around practically since somebody sold the first thoroughbred racehorse at auction.

SCARCITY!

Tell customers the product is going away, and suddenly people who couldn’t make up their minds yesterday are reaching for their wallets today!

Sure, I can’t prove Tesla is deliberately manufacturing demand. Elon says there’s a real backlog. But consider the other side of the story.

Tesla previously discussed selling hundreds of thousands of Cybertrucks annually. Musk once projected sales of up to 250,000 Cybertrucks a year!

Actual U.S. sales in 2025?

• 20,237

That’s according to Kelley Blue Book figures reported by Reuters. They were taking reservations like they had invented the first iPhone! Meanwhile, actual sales fell considerably short of those lofty ambitions.

To the point where the truck is apparently being canceled faster than somebody who says something offensive on social media. 😂

SO WHICH STORY ARE WE BUYING?

Is the Cybertruck so popular that Tesla can’t produce enough of them to satisfy the backlog? Or is it so complicated to manufacture that Tesla would rather devote its resources to building a DIFFERENT vehicle?

You know, like a Cybercab, a robotaxi designed to compete for the transportation business currently served by companies like Waymo, Uber, and Lyft.

Or are BOTH explanations true under different production and business conditions? Maybe.

WELCOME TO THE AUTOMOTIVE SALES BUSINESS!

WAIT! ELON HAS ANOTHER ACT COMING TO THE STAGE! 🚀

Now here’s where this concert gets REALLY INTERESTING.

While the Cybertruck is preparing for its grand farewell, Elon Musk is entertaining ANOTHER idea.

MERGING TESLA WITH SPACEX?

Yes, the rocket company. Apparently, building cars, robots, rocket ships, satellites, and artificial intelligence in separate businesses isn’t quite enough anymore.

In October, Elon confirmed that Tesla and SpaceX had formed independent committees to explore a possible merger. He thinks combining the businesses is a GREAT IDEA.

Why? Cooperation on AI, computer chips, robotics, connectivity, and all kinds of futuristic technology.

Now, the merger hasn’t been agreed to, and shareholders would have to support it. But I’m a car guy AND a salesman, so I have to ask:

ARE WE SELLING CARS OR ARE WE SELLING THE FUTURE OF THE ENTIRE GALAXY? 🤣

Because here’s another fascinating little detail.

According to SpaceX’s own financial filings, in 2025 the rocket company purchased approximately…

$131 MILLION WORTH OF CYBERTRUCKS FROM TESLA!

WAIT A MINUTE.

SPACEX WAS ALREADY BUYING TICKETS TO THE CYBERTRUCK FAREWELL CONCERT BEFORE TICKETMASTER EVEN ANNOUNCED THE TOUR? 😂

I spent years in the car business, and apparently I was calling on the WRONG CUSTOMERS!

Imagine being able to call another company associated with your own business and say:

“HEY! HOW ABOUT BUYING $131 MILLION WORTH OF PICKUP TRUCKS?”

And then eventually talking about combining the companies!

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL CROSS-SELLING!

And while we’re discussing the biggest automotive sales presentation in history, let’s not forget Elon’s performance-based compensation package.

I call it the “LET’S MAKE A DEAL” DEAL!

Tesla shareholders approved a plan back in 2025 that could eventually be worth UP TO A TRILLION DOLLARS!

Yes. That’s a T, not a B.

He has to achieve some extraordinary performance milestones to earn it. But COME ON!

A TRILLION-DOLLAR POTENTIAL PAY PACKAGE?

I sold cars for a couple of decades. Nobody ever offered ME a trillion dollars to move a few more pickup trucks off the lot.

Of course, I didn’t have a pile of investor dollars lying around to support my business model, either.

NOTE TO SELF: “Self, next time take your automotive sales ideas to Wall Street. Apparently, that’s where they keep the REALLY BIG CHECKBOOKS!”

Apparently, I should have been selling spaceships, robots, and the future of civilization taken over by artificial intelligence instead. I didn’t get that memo.

And here’s what makes all this so entertaining to watch.

We’ve gone from selling electric cars to autonomous vehicles, robots, artificial intelligence, satellites, and space technology. And now we’re potentially combining the whole show under one enormous corporate sunroof, with a future robot in the driver’s seat.

WELCOME TO ELON MUSK’S GALACTIC AUTOMOTIVE SALES EXTRAVAGANZA! 🚀😂

BACK TO THE STAR OF THE SHOW!

Personally, I’ve always thought the Cybertruck looks like a DeLorean that went to a gym, ate nothing but protein powder, and decided it wanted to become a refrigerator.

Seriously! It’s as though Elon decided to build a truck while sitting at a Waffle House at 3 AM.

He grabbed a napkin and a pen, drew something that looked like a stainless-steel doorstop, and took it to his engineers at Tesla.

“BUILD THIS!”

The engineers looked at each other.

“Sir, wouldn’t you like us to smooth out some of the…”

“NO! I MEAN EXACTLY LIKE THE DRAWING!”

The engineers looked at each other again.

“Okay. He’s signing the payroll checks.”

🤣

But I’ll give Tesla credit for one thing. This vehicle has managed to make its own retirement announcement an automotive spectator sport. And maybe that was its greatest achievement!

Love it or hate it, the Cybertruck has been one of the most talked-about vehicles of the modern automotive era. And now even its farewell tour is generating headlines and millions of views whenever Elon posts about it on X.

There is more fanfare around this ONE pickup truck than when General Motors sent Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, and Hummer to the automotive graveyard—and sold Saab off for good measure.

Where’s SAAB again? That was a real sob story. 😂

FIVE AUTOMOTIVE BRANDS!

And somehow the Cybertruck gets its own ENDLESS SUMMER FAREWELL TOUR!

Pontiac gave us the GTO, Firebird, and Trans Am. The Cybertruck gave us a stainless-steel electric vehicle that wouldn’t make a good-looking Matchbox toy.

Trust me, your six-year-old is going to pick one of those first three at the local toy store for that bright orange plastic racetrack before Elon’s “best product ever.”

Although, in fairness to Tesla, there’s another funny twist.

HUMMER CAME BACK AS AN ELECTRIC GMC MODEL!

It seemed more like a competitor to the Cybertruck than a great business decision to me, but what do I know?

Earlier this year, GM reportedly put development of its next-generation full-size electric trucks and SUVs on hold amid softer-than-expected demand. GM insists its existing electric trucks aren’t canceled.

There’s that familiar phrase again…

“SLOWER-THAN-EXPECTED DEMAND!”

Which makes me wonder…

WAS THERE EVER THAT MUCH DEMAND?

Or were we all supposed to watch LeBron James doing the CrabWalk in a Hummer commercial and assume customers would be lining up around the block? 😂

SO HERE’S MY NEXT QUESTION!

Is the Cybertruck going to become a misunderstood collector’s vehicle that history will eventually vindicate?

Or is it the greatest example of automotive buzz since somebody promised us flying cars or a stainless-steel DeLorean with an underpowered, 130-horsepower Peugeot-Renault-Volvo V6 gasoline engine?

Is it just another Hummer H3 with a battery pack? Or is this thing going to become the DeLorean of the future, with enthusiasts paying outrageous prices to own one long after production ends?

And here’s another question for the Tesla investors.

ARE YOU BUYING A CAR COMPANY? OR ARE YOU BUYING A TICKET TO ELON’S NEXT GALACTIC SALES PRESENTATION? 🚀

TESLA FANS! FORD FANS! CHEVY FANS! WHAT DO YOU THINK?

And somebody find an old DeLorean and see if it’s ready for an upgrade to the FUTURE. I hear there’s an opening act available for the Cybertruck’s farewell tour.

I can just picture Elon waking up one morning and saying:

“WAIT A MINUTE! WHY DON’T WE TURN MY BEST PRODUCT OF ALL TIME INTO A CYBERCAB?!”

“BRILLIANT!”

Just remove the steering wheel, throw in a few more robots, and BOOM! Another futuristic sales presentation is ready for prime time.

ONE LAST THING ABOUT THIS PARKING SPOT…

You might have noticed that I only included ONE AI-generated illustration in this Parking Spot today.

That’s because with announcements this HUGE, almost as BIG as the truck itself, I need to save a few illustrations for future concert appearances.

After all, who knows when Elon might announce ANOTHER encore, a reunion tour, or an entirely new venue?

As far as my AI illustrations go, I don’t want to use up all my Cybertruck artwork before the band actually breaks up.

And by that time, I might be getting reprimanded by ChatGPT for wasting its time creating all these ridiculous concert posters! 🤣

THE SHOW MUST GO ON! 🎸😂

— The Cool Car Guy

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Apparently, I just need a better concert promoter! 😂