The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that on Friday, Tesla announced the death of its angular, norm-shattering pickup, a sci-fi stainless-origami shark on wheels laden with tons of cultural baggage. A New York Times dispatch to The Globe says it was three years old. Its end came on the concrete floors of Tesla's Gigafactory Texas, after its creator, Elon Musk, said in a post on his social platform, X, that production will cease this coming summer. Response to news of Cybertruck's passing has been ... polite, with one analyst saying, "You were the most distinctive vehicle that nobody asked for." The sudden demise, after Tesla sank $2-billion (U.S.) into development and production, led many people to compare Cybertruck with the ultimate flop, the Ford Edsel. But that's really not fair. The Edsel sold far more vehicles, and it actually looked like a car. From the beginning, Cybertruck took an unusual road, born not in a standard automotive design studio, but in the mind of Mr. Musk, who drew inspiration from decades-old dystopian movies about the future. Skeptics mocked it as a absurdity, saying it resembled a dumpster, a space-age doorstop, an El Camino mated with a cheese grater, even a "fascist Toblerone."