Donald Trump-adorned Tesla Cybertruck sits in traffic on January 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.As freaky as it sounds, we're now more than halfway through the 2020s. Hell, we're closer to 2050 than we are to 2000, but that's beside the point. I want to take a look back at the first six-ish years of this decade while also asking you folks to look into your crystal balls and answer one simple question for me: What car will define the 2020s?Tell me what car you think, years from now, will be the first one to pop into your head when you think of this decade. Keep in mind, I'm not asking what the most important car of this decade will end up being. I'm looking for a car that defines this era — not just in an automotive sense, but in terms of the general vibe of the world. What has captured the essence of this bizarre decade better than anything else possibly could have? Just to set the precedent early, I'm going to say right now that whatever car you pick needs to have been in production during the 2020s. If your submission is really good, I might let something from 2019 slide, but I'm going to be very strict about this. My choiceTesla Cybertruck crash testFriends, there's only one logical choice for the car that best defines the 2020s: it's the Tesla Cybertruck, a godforsaken vehicle for a godforsaken time period. It's really the perfect personification of the vibe the 2020s have given off thus far (and what I assume they're going to give off for the next four years) that I almost feel bad picking it. It's almost too obvious, but that's the luxury I get with coming up with these questions. Sometimes, I get to score the layup.I mean, the car is just a perfect representation of Elon Musk's dominance of our social consciousness, the MAGA 2.0 movement, anti-wokeness and an in-your-face, go-cry-about-it attitude that has permeated through this wretched decade. In a world of binary politics, no vehicle more clearly illustrates one side versus the other. It also represents a nearly uncountable number of broken promises and misrepresentations.Anyway, that's enough out of me. How about you drop on down below and let your fellow Jalops know what car will best define the 2020s? As always, I'll be giving away cash prizes to those who explain why they made their pick. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox, and add us as a preferred search source on Google.
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