MKBHD Says Discontinued Cybertruck Is Bad News for Roadster
Tesla’s decision to wind down Cybertruck production has Marques Brownlee worried about a different delayed vehicle.
“This doesn’t bode well for the Roadster,” Brownlee, the YouTube reviewer popularly known as MKBHD, said on a Friday episode of the “WVFRM Podcast.”
On November 6, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on X that the EV maker would stop building the Cybertruck by mid-2027 to focus on production of the steering wheel-less Cybercab. Earlier this year, Tesla also retired its Model S and Model X, as it shifts more of its attention toward autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots.
That makes the Roadster, Tesla’s twice-revealed and long-delayed supercar, a questionable fit in the automaker’s lineup, MKBHD said. It’s the only vehicle in Tesla’s lineup that the automaker isn’t trying to make fully autonomous.
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MKBHD has followed the Roadster saga particularly closely. He previously held two reservations for the high-flying vehicle, but he said in September 2025 that he had canceled one after waiting nearly a decade for delivery.
And, for the Cybertruck, he said he thinks Tesla missed a golden opportunity.
“If they just made like a good, simple SUV type-thing, like the EV9,” he said. “That would have sold a lot. People would have wanted that everywhere.”
About MKBHD’s hair…
The YouTuber has a big bet with Tesla stans: If Tesla, as it once predicted, sells Cybercabs to US consumers by the end of 2026 under $30,000, he’ll shave his head.
Tesla debuted its gold-painted Cybercabs in Austin in September, but the vehicles were used exclusively in Tesla’s own ride-hailing service — not sold to individual drivers.
On Friday, he said that Tesla’s plan to continue making Cybertrucks until mid-2027 made him more confident in his bet.
“Alright, I’m probably good,” MKBHD said on the podcast. “I did just get a haircut.”
That bet got a little more complicated late Friday and into Saturday.
Tesla opened early Cybercab orders to select customers and is predicting a December delivery for its first units. The consumer Cybercab has a $29,990 starting price (before a $300-a-month subscription) — and MKBHD was among the initial invitees.
“My hair is safe for several reasons,” he wrote, pointing to the car’s invite-only sales run and the fact that owners can’t use it at first as a ride-hail. “It’s a paperweight if I take this thing home.”
Musk responded on Saturday: “He’s a chicken.”
