A Colorado man who traded his Ford F-150 for a Tesla Cybertruck says the change felt less like a new truck and more like stepping out of the Victorian era and into the future. After three weeks with a 2025 AWD truck, he said the Cybertruck made his old pickup seem primitive.
That kind of first-hand reaction is exactly why the Tesla Cybertruck keeps drawing attention now. Buyers and skeptics are still comparing it with the Ford F-150 on basic questions of capability, ease of use and whether the truck looks futuristic or merely unusual. This owner, posting on the Cybertruck Owners Club website, came down hard on the side of the future.
He said the truck’s steer-by-wire system, paired with rear wheel steering, was mind-blowing. He also said it seriously felt like driving the future. In his view, an F150 or Tundra can do the same basic things, but not with the same capability and ease of use. His wife went even further, likening the Cybertruck to a laptop and the F-150 to a typewriter.
The strongest part of his praise came with a complaint that did not sound like one. He said he regretted purchasing FSD, but only because the Cybertruck was so much fun to drive. That is the friction in the story: the truck’s appeal is so strong that even a paid software feature can feel like it gets in the way of simply wanting to drive.
The post was published July 14, 2026, and it lands in the middle of a larger comparison between the Tesla Cybertruck and Ford F-150. That comparison is not purely about novelty; 2025 sales figures showed the F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck. Even so, this owner’s account is about feel, not market share, and his judgment was blunt: the Cybertruck did not just update the pickup experience, it made his old truck feel decades behind.
What remains unanswered is whether that enthusiasm will hold after the novelty fades. For now, the Colorado owner’s verdict is plain enough: after three weeks in a 2025 AWD truck, he is not talking about a replacement for his F-150. He is talking about a different era.
