Elon Musk never made a Tesla Cybervan, but Russian company Russo-Balt shrugged and welded one anyway.

Russo-Balt says the F200 design is original, despite comparisons to China’s Weiqiao V90 and Tesla Cybertruck.

Under that hand-welded stainless monocoque, backed by a 100-year body warranty, lives an electric motor pushing out 200 hp.

Large 115 kWh battery promises up to 400 km of range.

First deliveries of Russo-Balt F200 are slated for January 2027, and the price lands at 6.5 million rubles (about $85,000).

Reviving a brand that once built cars and railway carriages between 1869 and 1918, Russo-Balt didn’t go retro. They went straight into industrial modernism.

Cybertruck’s ugliness sparks debate. F200’s ugliness ends conversations.

Delivery vans spend their lives getting scraped, dented, overloaded, and ignored. Russo-Balt F200 looks like it was designed for Russian roads.

Not every vehicle needs to be beautiful. Russo-Balt F200 exists because the world is full of jobs that do not care about design.

Flat stainless steel panels are easier to repair and easier to replace.

If Tesla Cybertruck looks like a car from a video game, the F200 looks like the crate it was shipped in.

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