While the industry expected a smart tech-heavy machine that was recognisably a pickup – something along the lines of the Rivian, we instead got a machine that seemed to have arrived on an alien spacecraft.

And while we’re grown used to surprises from Tesla, they’ve tended to be unsurprising surprises: ever more ludicrous acceleration times, ever more vehicle autonomy. But the Cybertruck was on another level: a complete reimagining of what a next-generation pickup could be.

It joins a pantheon of vehicles that shocked, surprised and sometimes plain impressed us – let’s take a look: