I saw the Tesla Cybertruck for the first time. It blew my tiny European mind.

Big, beefy pickup trucks are already a rarity in Europe, with the continent’s narrow streets and dense urban environments more suited to smaller models. The Cybertruck’s brutalist style and sheer size make it unlike any vehicle I’ve ever seen.

In some ways, that’s the point, and the reason the Cybertruck has become such a status symbol in the US. The pickup’s divisive design seems deliberately calculated to shock and provoke.

Not for me

Eventually, however, the shock wore off and was replaced by a strange sense of futility.

I do appreciate Tesla’s attempt to do something a bit different — but I’m not that enthusiastic about driving around a car that looks like a giant boxcutter.

The sheer size of the Cybertruck is also an issue. As someone who spent much of the past few years whizzing around narrow British country lanes in a 12-foot-long Toyota Yaris, the idea of trying to back something as bulky as the nearly 19-foot Cybertruck into a parking space doesn’t appeal too much.

Elon Musk previously floated the idea of producing a smaller version of the Cybertruck for European markets.

But even if Tesla did manage to get approval to sell the pickup in Europe, it’s unclear whether there would be demand for it.

Pedro Pacheco, vice president of research at Gartner, previously told BI that the tiny market for pickup trucks in Europe meant it may not be worth Tesla’s trouble to sell the Cybertruck across the Atlantic.

“For a vehicle in the category of the Cybertruck, there’s not a huge market in Europe, because pickup trucks generally are not very common,” he said.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.