Can The Tesla Cybertruck Really Off-Road?

Can it jump? Rock crawl? Survive the whoops? Conquer the sand dunes? In short, can the Tesla Cybertruck REALLY off-road?

Viral videos of it struggling on mild inclines tell us ‘no’.

But armed with a Cybertruck featuring Tesla’s latest off-road software update that finally allows you to lock the diffs, we took it – together with a Rivian R1T as a benchmark – to the middle of the Californian desert to find out.

Over to Top Gear Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, and Head of Car Testing, Ollie Marriage, to give us all an answer…

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:55 Cybertruck - Rock Crawl
03:58 R1T - Rock Crawl
05:22 Cybertruck - The Whoops
07:56 R1T - The Whoops
09:50 Cybertruck - The Jump
10:53 R1T - The Jump
12:07 Cybertruck - Sand Dunes
13:50 R1T - Sand Dunes
14:55 The Verdict

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