Cybertruck gunfire clip goes viral
A viral video showed Tesla’s chief designer, Franz von Holzhausen, sitting inside a Cybertruck during a live Taran Tactical gunfire test and reacting to hits on the vehicle’s armored glass. (x.com) The clip spread quickly on social, drawing thousands of reactions as viewers watched the live test footage and von Holzhausen’s on-camera response. (x.com)
A video of Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen sitting inside a Cybertruck during a live gunfire test at Taran Tactical’s range spread widely after Tesla Owners Silicon Valley posted it on X. (x.com) The longer test video was published on YouTube on December 29, 2025, and Tesla Owners Silicon Valley said the session used weapons ranging from 9 millimeter handguns to a Barrett M82 chambered in.50 Browning Machine Gun. (youtube.com) Armored CyberGlass, the company featured in the shoot, said the truck’s factory side windows were replaced with its aftermarket ballistic glass before the test at Taran Tactical’s private range in the Los Angeles area. (armoredcyberglass.com) (tech.yahoo.com) That detail matters because Tesla does not market the production Cybertruck as bulletproof. On Tesla’s current Cybertruck page, the company says the truck has stainless-steel body panels and “shatter-resistant armor glass” that can handle hail the size of a baseball or “an actual baseball.” (tesla.com) The clip also revived one of Tesla’s most famous launch-day moments. At the Cybertruck unveiling on November 21, 2019, von Holzhausen threw a metal ball at the truck’s “armor glass,” and the windows cracked onstage instead of holding. (cnbc.com) (techcrunch.com) Tesla did not begin handing Cybertrucks to customers until November 30, 2023, four years after that reveal. The viral gun-range footage lands after the truck moved from a stage prop with broken glass to a production vehicle on U.S. roads. (tesla.com) Coverage of the new video has focused on the same split that showed up in the comments: some viewers treated it as proof the Cybertruck image still resonates, while others noted the test was effectively a demonstration for an aftermarket supplier, not a factory Tesla capability. (autoblog.com) (tech.yahoo.com) The result is a clip built for the internet: the same designer who cracked a Cybertruck window in 2019 is now shown bracing inside one as rounds hit upgraded glass from outside. (cnbc.com) (x.com)
