If you needed to build a practical vehicle for a sci-fi movie in the 1960s through 1990s, something that actors could get in and stunt drivers could drive, you used flat pieces of plexiglass and sheet metal because complex curves are expensive in time and effort, and therefore money. You can do a lot in fiberglass and vacuum-formed plastic, but not for something that needs to be structurally sound enough to drive a hundred meters with people inside.
Modelmakers could do miniatures and set designers can do great things, so your trains, spaceships and so forth - static sets and external FX shots - could be quite imaginative. If nobody bumps into it, styrofoam and paint can work wonders.
Anyway, this explains the Cybertruck.
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@dashdsrdash I have regularly described the cybertruck as looking like a vehicle from a mid/late 1970's cheezy sci-fi tv show. Like, I could easily see it rolling onto the set of the Logan's Run tv show. Except those had more curves: https://www.flickr.com/photos/r_jackson/2920958830
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