I went to see the Tesla Cybertruck in person. It's surprisingly different up close.

A customer in his early 50s wearing a beanie said he'd made a reservation 4 years ago. He recently got the invitation to purchase and paid an extra $250 to secure that. He chose the high-end Cyberbeast model. He came to see the Cybertruck for the first time and said it looked better in person. "They've made it slightly smaller compared to the prototype and you can see it's more compact," he said. His wife stood beside him. I asked if she liked the look and she said yes, although not with the same gusto as her husband.

A younger man in a brown jacket walked up to the truck. He said it looked cool. His wife beside him said it was "too big." I mentioned that my wife has threatened to divorce me if I buy this truck. "Your wife is smart and correct," she said. Another woman at the showroom said "It's just so big. Too big."

I brought my 17 year-old daughter with me. She had a negative reaction when she first saw the Cybertruck. "It's just so massive," she said. To her, it looked too big to park. It's longer than some versions of the Ford F-150, which a showroom employee confirmed, saying it's a few inches longer.

However, the sharp corners looked like they might do serious damage to anything that came into contact with them.

When the tonneau cover is up over the truck bay, there's likely to be zero rear visibility when reversing. A salesperson said this is solved by multiple cameras for visibility when reversing and parking.

There was one imperfection with how one rear door lined up with a back panel. More on that below.

That wasn't the case with everyone who visited Tesla's Santana Row showroom in San Jose on that day, though. I asked a Tesla salesman about people's reactions to the look of the truck in person. "It's 50/50," he said. "50% of the people who come in hate it and 50% love it. There's nothing in between." The salesman was offering to sign reservation holders up for free test drives of other Tesla cars on the spot. Those who agreed would be moved up in the Cybertruck reservation line, he said, describing this as an in-store offer.

A young man from Italy stood looking at the Cybertruck. He works for Tesla in Germany on the supply chain side and was visiting for work. He said the truck looked bigger in person, but that was good. Although, he said he would not buy one because it's too expensive.

A couple from Pleasanton, California, popped in to see the Cybertruck in person. The husband said he didn't like how the doors open. He pointed to fingerprints on one side, too. He also said one rear door panel didn't line up exactly with the rear corner panel. I could see it was slightly off, too. While not a huge fan, he predicted that Silicon Valley will soon be full of these trucks, and the radical design will become more commonplace. "This is the place you want to drive the Cybertruck. It's a big place." His wife said she liked the look of the Cybertruck and would drive it around happily. Although she said she preferred the Model Y.

A woman in her 50s sat on the edge of the showroom looking at the truck. She said the design makes people "pause," which is a good thing. "You want people to notice when you drive by. It's cool. It's very Silicon Valley. Very Elon." However, she said she was disappointed by the increase in price given the range of the Cybertruck. The cheapest model at roughly $60,000 has relatively low range, which is a problem, she said.