Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, said he would have redesigned the futuristic Cybertruck if consumers had hated it.

“I said, ‘Listen, if nobody wants to buy it, we can always make one that looks like all the other trucks,’” Musk said while appearing on the Third Row Tesla Podcast last week.

Ultimately, Musk would have just labeled the sharp, angular design as a “weird failure,” he said. But now, he calls the Cybertruck, which went viral after its announcement last year, as “our best product ever.”

“I wasn’t sure if nobody would buy it or a lot of people would buy it,” Musk said.

Luckily for Musk, the design experiment received more than 250,000 preorders within five days of the announcement, Musk posted on Twitter.

The podcast’s hosts asked Musk if he expected to receive that many preorders, to which he responded, “No, not really.”

Musk said the Cybertruck was designed to look like a “futuristic armored personnel carrier” and that the inspiration board modeled it after movies including “Blade Runner,” “Mad Max,” “Back to the Future” and “Alien.”

“It seems like a lot of the reason why people buy pickup trucks in the U.S. is because it’s the most badass truck,” Musk said. “What’s tougher than a truck? A tank. Like a tank from the future.”