DeLorean designer Giorgetto Giugiaro calls Tesla Cybertruck the ‘Picasso of cars’

• Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the enduring DeLorean, made well-known by the “Again to the Future” movies. 
• The Italian design legend says Tesla’s Cybertruck is the “the Picasso of cars.”
• The DeLorean was one of many automobiles which impressed the Cybertruck’s design.

Italian design legend Giorgetto Giugiaro says he thinks Tesla’s Cybertruck is a masterpiece.

Giugiaro, who designed the cult traditional DeLorean, known as the Cybertruck “the Picasso of cars.”

The Delorean designer was talking to an Italian newspaper la Repubblica, the place he gushed in regards to the Cybertruck. Giugiaro mentioned he expects the automobile to be “vastly profitable as a result of folks wish to stand out.”

Tesla’s Cybertruck is notable for being the primary stainless-steel automobile to be produced since Giugiaro’s DeLorean. The DeLorean, which appeared within the “Again to the Future” movie collection, was launched within the 80s.

“It doesn’t characterize the seek for concord and perfection however for emotion and robustness,” Giugiaro mentioned of the Cybertruck.

This would not be the primary time Giugiaro has heaped reward on the Cybertruck. He informed NPR in an interview final month that the truck could be a success with consumers, although at the moment he declined to say whether or not he appreciated it or not.

“Everybody desires to tell apart themselves. It is a market necessity, and the Cybertruck will certainly achieve success, I am certain of it. I am satisfied it should discover its admirers,” Giugiaro mentioned then.

The vote of confidence from Giugiaro would most likely make Tesla — and its CEO Elon Musk — very pleased. Giugiaro’s DeLorean was one of many automobiles that impressed the Cybertruck’s design, based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk.

Musk additionally has huge plans for the Cybertruck, if his newest posts on X are any indication. On Monday, Musk mentioned Tesla could be rolling out a “mod bundle” that will enable the Cybertruck to perform as a ship.

“We’re going to provide a mod bundle that permits Cybertruck to traverse no less than 100m of water as a ship,” Musk wrote on X. “Largely simply must improve cabin door seals.”

Representatives for Tesla and Giugiaro didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.