• Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the long-lasting DeLorean, made well-known by means of the “Again to the Long term” movies. 
• The Italian design legend says Tesla’s Cybertruck is the “the Picasso of vehicles.”
• The DeLorean was once one of the vital automobiles which galvanized the Cybertruck’s design.

Italian design legend Giorgetto Giugiaro says he thinks Tesla’s Cybertruck is a masterpiece.

Giugiaro, who designed the cult vintage DeLorean, known as the Cybertruck “the Picasso of vehicles.”

The Delorean dressmaker was once talking to an Italian newspaper l. a. Repubblica, the place he gushed in regards to the Cybertruck. Giugiaro mentioned he expects the automobile to be “vastly a hit as a result of folks wish to stand out.”

Tesla’s Cybertruck is notable for being the primary stainless-steel automobile to be produced since Giugiaro’s DeLorean. The DeLorean, which gave the impression within the “Again to the Long term” movie sequence, was once introduced within the 80s.

“It does now not constitute the seek for team spirit and perfection however for emotion and robustness,” Giugiaro mentioned of the Cybertruck.

This would not be the primary time Giugiaro has heaped reward at the Cybertruck. He instructed NPR in an interview ultimate month that the truck could be a success with consumers, despite the fact that at the moment he declined to mention whether or not he preferred it or now not.

“Everybody needs to tell apart themselves. It is a marketplace necessity, and the Cybertruck will indubitably achieve success, I am positive of it. I am satisfied it’s going to to find its admirers,” Giugiaro mentioned then.

The vote of self assurance from Giugiaro would most definitely make Tesla — and its CEO Elon Musk — more than happy. Giugiaro’s DeLorean was once one of the vital automobiles that impressed the Cybertruck’s design, in line with Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk.

Musk additionally has giant plans for the Cybertruck, if his newest posts on X are any indication. On Monday, Musk mentioned Tesla could be rolling out a “mod bundle” that will permit the Cybertruck to serve as as a ship.

“We’re going to be offering a mod bundle that permits Cybertruck to traverse no less than 100m of water as a ship,” Musk wrote on X. “Most commonly simply wish to improve cabin door seals.”

Representatives for Tesla and Giugiaro didn’t straight away reply to requests for remark from Trade Insider despatched outdoor common trade hours.