That Tesla Roadster You Have Been Dreaming About Will Probably Cost You Over $4000 A Month

The aesthetics look great, you are being ridiculous. The specs blow away every car ever made in acceleration and range, it is selling like crazy at that price.

Great to make what is a Hyper Car. But if it looks like it could be found at the Mazda dealership and has a pain burger interior, there may only be so many clients at that price. Neato will only get you so far. For that kind of coin, a lavish Bentley CGT Speed Mulliner or a 911GT2 can offer you much more in the way of complete motoring satisfaction vs just acceleration giggles.

How so? This car is designed for the track and has torque steering, it is going to be more far than just acceleration. The only thing it lacks verses those two cars is the sound.

@SJD -m I am still a fan of the brand etc, but while this car may prove to handle really well and do a 9 second 1/4 mile, it just doesn't say $250k when you walk up to it. But I have trouble with the new McLaren 720S too. I just think that is part of the deal at that price level. Spec's are great but it is the whole package for me. The automotive experience matters as it were. I can see the hard-core attraction of a Porsche GT3RS and the over the top Captain Nemo esthetic in a Pagani Huayra. For those who buy it, they will be looking for something more "digital" and sublime versus what appeals to someone who is more "analog" like myself.

@SDJ - Ignore the haters. The car, if it comes out as it is spec'd will still smoke everything that dares to line up against it. It won't even be close. And if it can set a new time at the Ring.. well then it will be all that plus a ham sandwich! And yes while the numbers likely won't be huge, it will sell out. Of that I am sure. Eventually, I can see supercars in 10-15 years with a box to check at purchase, do you want the petrol engine option or are you ok with just the extra battery pack. A bit like old school buyers who still want a manual vs a PDK or 10 speed auto. The take rate will be low, but you will be able to tell your buddies at cars and coffee that "Mine has an engine!".

Ugh, why does everyone keep referring to the made up, currently impossible to meet specs that Elon Musk announced as if they're actual statistics? They're goals, and maybe one day they'll meet them, but nothing currently operating achieves the figures he said, including that concept they showed. The only reason they surprised everyone with the concept and dumped all that hyperbole all over the stage was to get 1000 more suckers, uh, "visionary thinkers" to give Musk another $250M interest free loan in the form of $250k deposits, which he needs so he can try to actually build the car he promised the last time he did this -- the Model 3, which is currently an absolute production disaster. Nothing he promised on that stage that day is real, it was a money grab, plain and simple.

The Tesla Roadster is not designed for the track. That is totally ridiculous! Drive any Tesla around any track and 2 things are going to happen.

1. It's going to get blown away by anything else due to its high weight (probably around 4,000 lbs for the Roadster).
2. It will only be able to make a few laps until it overheats and goes into limp mode, just like any other Tesla.

But none of this matters becasue Telsa is going to have to buy a multi-billion dollar factory first. Just not goint to happen. Vaporware as usual.

What a joke - I would buy a Porsche Mission e about a thousand years before getting entangled with the Tesla Motor company. Try $2,000 per year service costs for their Model S. I can imagine what those greedy folks at Tesla will charge for their "roadster" service. And tell the Tesla automotive illiterates that the car they are hoping to build someday is not a roadster.

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