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Time of India
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Adin Ross and Rampage Jackson injured as WhistlinDiesel flips Tesla Cybertruck live on stream
(Image via X/@scubaryan_) What started as a wild collab turned into a full-on chaos stream. On June 23, 2025, Kick streamer Adin Ross teamed up with the internet's favorite vehicle destroyer, WhistlinDiesel, for what was supposed to be a banger live ride. Instead, it ended with a flipped Tesla Cybertruck, a bruised thigh, and fans holding their breath watching it all unfold live. A Stream Turned Wild Ride The highly anticipated collab between Adin Ross and WhistlinDiesel was everything fans expected—until it wasn't. The duo was streaming from WhistlinDiesel's souped-up Tesla Cybertruck, off-roading and clowning around for the chat. It all went south when the truck climbed over a massive boulder, and Adin nervously asked him to 'chill.' But WhistlinDiesel? Not the chilling type. 'We're on top of this boulder right now. It's actually so sick,' he said, seconds before the Cybertruck tipped over and crashed. — scubaryan_ (@scubaryan_) The Crash Clip That Took Over X A 21-second clip of the chaos hit X (formerly Twitter), and yeah, it went crazy . The Tesla was seen awkwardly angled on the boulder before flipping over completely. No cuts. No edits. Just pure, unfiltered streamer mayhem. The stream went from hype to 'Is everyone okay?' in literal seconds. Adin Was Limping, Freaked, and Still Streaming Post-crash, Adin could be seen limping away from the vehicle. ' My thigh! I don't know how I landed,' he said, visibly shaken. He was more worried about Rampage Jackson, though, saying, 'Let's make sure Rampage is all right… I can't even put pressure on my leg right now.' The airbag apparently hit Adin's shoulder, too. While WhistlinDiesel tried to check on him, Adin kept it real: 'It's not as bad as I thought… I'm kind of freaked out, but okay.' The 'Guaranteed Death Waiver' Moment In true WhistlinDiesel fashion, earlier in the stream, Cody had made Adin sign what he called a 'Guaranteed Death Waiver.' According to him, Jake Paul had signed one too. Adin looked stunned. 'Uh, what?! Guaranteed death?!' Turns out it was part joke, part real. But given what happened just hours later, fans couldn't help but freak out. One user on X wrote, 'Bro literally manifested the crash with that waiver.' Fans Are Losing It Online From memes to concern, reactions to the crash have flooded social media. Some viewers praised the 'rawness' of the livestream. Others slammed the recklessness. One thing's for sure: this stream is going down as one of the most chaotic collabs of the year.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
WhistlinDiesel Buys F1 Car in Europe, Hits Autobahn at 195 MPH, Teases Bugatti Stunt
⚡️ Read the full article on Motorious Popular YouTube personality WhistlinDiesel has taken his automotive exploits to new heights — and speeds — with the purchase of a real Formula One race car and a 195 mph sprint down Germany's Autobahn. Known for wild vehicle stunts and destruction tests that blur the line between car culture and chaos, the content creator — whose real name is Cody Detwiler — recently traveled to Europe to expand his garage of extreme machines. His first stop: the Netherlands, where he took delivery of a Toro Rosso STR4 F1 car from GP Cars 4 Sale. The Red Bull-backed race car, which competed during the 2009 season, is more notable for its aesthetic and heritage than performance, having notched zero wins or podiums in its Formula One career. It currently lacks an engine — a problem Detwiler says he plans to solve with an unconventional swap aimed at making the car 'daily drivable.' The visit also gave the YouTuber a close-up look at motorsport history, including a Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR and Bentley's 2003 Le Mans-winning Speed 8. Next, Detwiler crossed into Germany and took to the famed Autobahn in a Ferrari 812 Superfast, managing to reach 195 mph. 'We were trying for 200,' he joked in a video, 'but traffic had other plans.' Not one to leave viewers without a teaser, Detwiler reminded fans of his long-standing pledge: once his YouTube channel hits 10 million subscribers — it currently sits at 9.39 million — he'll purchase a Bugatti Chiron and subject it to one of his infamous durability tests. The trip concluded with a stop at the Mercedes-Benz Museum, where Detwiler left behind a piece of a G63 G-Wagon he previously destroyed — a fitting signature for a man whose brand is built on breaking the rules, and sometimes the cars.
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
The Tesla Cybertruck design disaster just keeps getting worse
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It already seemed clear that the Tesla Cybertruck was a flop commercially when the company started offering incentives and even resorted to a desperate sales pitch on the White House lawn. It's also no news that the electric pick-up truck has design flaws, from frames snapping to the strange light positioning and an inability to handle snow. The car isn't even road legal in many countries. But just when it seemed the Cybertruck's reputation couldn't fall any further, Tesla's now suffered the ultimate embarrassment for its brand. It's had to recall every single vehicle. And this isn't like that time when Tesla issued a recall because of a font. It's because panels have been flying off on the road since they're merely stuck on with glue. Tesla has agreed to recall all 46,100 Cybertruck pickups currently out there after the US traffic safety administration NHTSA raised concerns about the glue used to hold exterior sheet metal. The NHTSA received a complaint from an owner after a panel lining the side of the roof came loose. The adhesive, it seems, can become brittle, particularly in cold conditions, causing a major accident risk Sadly, the news is hardly surprising. The design flaw has been pointed out in videos on social media like the X post above for months. The car enthusiast WhistlinDiesel described the gluing of the panel as "unacceptable" in a TikTok video last year (below). Tesla says it will replace the original bonding agent with a different structural adhesive that, according to the NHTSA recall report, won't be "prone to environmental embrittlement". That doesn't exactly inspire confidence, though; those panels are still stuck on with glue. It's the latest brand embarrassment for Tesla and CEO Elon Musk. The Cybertruck was long delayed due to engineering problems, and it massively increased in price while being downgraded in specs from the original 2019 concept. There have already been recalls to fix software and hardware, and deliveries are nowhere near the company's initial projections of 500,000 units a year. To cement the vehicle's disgrace, there have been reports of Cybertruck owners trying to sell their vehicles, either out of embarrassment at the car or horror at Musk's support for far-right political groups. The Cybertruck debacle has also distracted Tesla from the potentially much more bankable Model 2, which it first teased five years ago. The increasing controversy of Musk's role as advisor to Donald Trump could now harm the prospects of the upcoming entry car if it ever reaches production. While Musk's entry into government might make sense for his personal goals, it's not been great for this brands. Tesla shares have lost a third of their value since the start of the year. The company's been dropped from the Vancouver International Auto Show because of security concerns, and even big Tesla bulls like the tech analyst Dan Ives are saying Musk needs to pull back from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) if he's to save Tesla. 'The brand damage started off as limited in our view based on our initial survey work… but now has spread globally over the last few weeks into what we would characterise as a brand tornado crisis moment for Musk and Tesla,' Ives wrote in a note to investors reported by The Guardian. It may be the case that Musk thinks the reputation of the Tesla logo in the car market no longer matters too much as the company aims to move towards tech innovations like its robotaxi and humanoid robots. But even if EVs eventually become a minor part of the business, public view of the brand identity will be vital to build consumer trust in those products. For more of the week's car branding news, see the stunning Aston Martin CGI ads made in Unreal Engine.
Japan Times
21-03-2025
- Automotive
- Japan Times
Tesla recalls Cybertrucks after steel trim pieces come loose
Tesla recalled all the Cybertrucks it produced and sold in the first 15 months it's been on the U.S. market over a safety issue it's having trouble resolving. The carmaker estimates that 1% of the 46,096 pickups it's calling back have a defect, according to a recall report filed with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Pieces of steel trim along the exterior of the Cybertruck are joined to the vehicle by an adhesive that's "susceptible to environmental embrittlement,' the company said. Tesla says it will foot the bill for replacing the panels with ones that meet its durability requirements. But as of March 18 — the day Tesla submitted its recall report — the company said it had not yet corrected the issue in production. The manufacturer expected to sort out the remedy on or around March 21. "If the cant rail stainless steel panel separates from the vehicle while in drive, it could create a road hazard for following motorists and increase their risk of injury or a collision,' Tesla said. The company identified 151 warranty claims that may be related to the condition. Tesla recalled the Cybertruck six times in the U.S. within a year of launching the pickup in November 2023. One of those earlier safety campaigns, in June of last year, pertained to trim pieces along the exterior of the trunk bed that could come loose while driving. Tesla shares were little changed as of 10 a.m. Thursday in New York. The stock has fallen more than 40% this year. From the moment he first unveiled a Cybertruck prototype in November 2019, CEO Elon Musk has positioned the pickup as sturdy and and strong. "You want a truck that's really tough, not fake tough,' he said on stage at an event in Los Angeles. But after showing clips of the truck withstanding gunshots and inviting Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's design chief, to slam its doors with a sledgehammer, a demonstration of the Cybertruck's "armored glass' went awry. The executive hurled a metal ball at the driver-side windows and shattered them. Tesla made light of the incident when the Cybertruck went on sale in late 2023, selling $55 decals commemorating the damaged windows that quickly sold out. However, failures of the pickup's trim pieces to stay adhered to the truck aren't the only incidents that have raised questions about the durability of the pickup. In August, YouTuber Cody Detwiler — whose account WhistlinDiesel has 9.31 million subscribers — released a video comparing how the Cybertruck and Ford's top-selling F-150 pickup hold up over the course of a series of extreme stunts. The video, which captures the frame of Tesla's truck snapping off when the two pickups were hooked to one another by their tow hitches, has almost 31 million views. In a more recent YouTube video by Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything, the rear section of the Cybertruck frame collapses during a stress test. Musk has stood by the pickup, posting on X last month that it was "apocalypse-level safe' after it earned a five-star overall safety rating from NHTSA.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Indiana YouTuber Installs 17 Turbos on Truck for 38,000HP—Ends in Predictable Chaos
⚡️ Read the full article on Motorious Automotive YouTuber Cody Detwiler, better known as WhistlinDiesel, is notorious for pushing mechanical limits in the most outrageous ways. His latest experiment? Bolting 17 turbochargers onto a truck in an attempt to generate an absurd 38,000 horsepower. The result was as catastrophic as one might expect. Detwiler, who regularly destroys high-powered vehicles in the name of entertainment, wasn't even present for the build—he was on jury duty. Instead, his fabrication team was left to carry out his wild vision. Their mission: install a maze of 17 turbos on the truck and see just how much power they could squeeze out of it. The truck initially tested at 397 horsepower, leading the team to anticipate either an astronomical power increase or a complete meltdown. Given Detwiler's history with automotive destruction, the odds favored the latter. Once completed, the Frankenstein-like creation looked more like an AI-generated rendering than a real vehicle. The towering stack of turbochargers left viewers both stunned and skeptical. One commenter summed it up best: 'I thought this was Photoshopped.' The build, which was part of Detwiler's quest to achieve "1 trillion horsepower," was doomed from the start. Despite the sheer number of turbos, mechanical failure was inevitable. The truck ultimately succumbed to the absurd modifications, proving once again that just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be. For Detwiler, however, the carnage is all part of the entertainment. Whether the truck actually hit 38,000 horsepower remains unknown—but in true WhistlinDiesel fashion, the destruction was more important than the data.
