Jay Leno's Garage - Roadster 2.0 with Franz

[SMAlset]

For anyone reading now, I believe the upcoming episode on "Jay Leno's Garage" @ 10pm ET/PT on CBNC is the episode with Franz and Roadster 2.0. On any minute. The CNBC site doesn't list either the Roadster 2.0 or Franz so not 100% sure but in general the episode has been hyped in the press.

Yep, it's coming up now. Episode called "Origins".

 

[MyJoule]

It played in Az earlier this evening. The new Roadster was teased the whole hour- Spoiler alert: New Roadster was shown just a little, with Leno Screaming -and saying "I'll take one" when Franz did a launch with him in it. The original roadster was driven by Jay and they showed Elon's Roadster in space.

Weird Al was on the episode too and mentioned he has a Tesla.

My opinion: Overall Fairly reasonable and unbiased report on Tesla from Leno-

 

[MXWing]

I thought the epace, Benz and infinity commercials were a poor use of advertising dollars for this episode.

 

[aikisteve]

I think it was a shame that they basically showed all Roadster footage in the trailer already. Nothing new in the episode itself :-(

 

[wesley888]

I think it was a shame that they basically showed all Roadster footage in the trailer already. Nothing new in the episode itself :-(

Yea, it was disappointing. Was hoping to see more than the trailer.

 

[jeewee3000]

So it was just this video?

Nothing more?

 

[aikisteve]

So it was just this video?

Nothing more?

MKBHD got more out of Elon about the Roadster than what Franz was saying. Tesla needs to stop saying they don't do marketing, because for me, this was a marketing teaser for the Roadster, nothing more.

 

[jeewee3000]

MKBHD got more out of Elon about the Roadster than what Franz was saying. Tesla needs to stop saying they don't do marketing, because for me, this was a marketing teaser for the Roadster, nothing more.

I agree. They might not pay for any marketing, but they indeed 'do' marketing.

 

[SO16]

MKBHD got more out of Elon about the Roadster than what Franz was saying. Tesla needs to stop saying they don't do marketing, because for me, this was a marketing teaser for the Roadster, nothing more.

Do you think Tesla paid to be on the show?

 

[SO16]

I agree. They might not pay for any marketing, but they indeed 'do' marketing.

The best kind of marketing there is....free.

 

[SO16]

Funny how in the beginning of the show, Weird Al mentioned he owns a Tesla and Tesla was at the end of the show....but Mitt Romney was in the middle after he dissed Tesla in two debates with Obama.

Would have been awesome if Mitt would have admitted he was wrong about Tesla. My respect for him would have gone up tremendously. Maybe would have earned my vote (if he would have ran again.)

 

[SMAlset]

I thought they showed more footage of the Model 3 than the new Roadster.

Hey, Tesla getting airtime on a popular car show, it's all great but the Model 3 and Roadster were the only cars that were being sold now which I thought was interesting...or if you were only interested in old model cars, the focus on them was kind of out of place.

 

[Kgorilla37]

Nice to see electric cars on a car show. But Leno’s main writers must have been on vacation for that episode. The cares seemed to be just props. It was more about talking with a couple of formerly popular ‘celebrities’. And Tesla was just stuck in at the end to perhaps get more viewers. So not something that would convince me to watch the show again. (I have seen Leno do a steam engine car episode that was pretty interesting).

 

[Lasairfion]

Yeah it was disappointing, but I guess since it's just the test model and not the actual production model, we're not going to get a detailed look as things may change before launch.

 

[Lasttoy]

I don't think many folks watch cnbc at 10pm on Thursday night?
Only real die hard car guys watch Jay religiously.

 

[AMPd]

Yeah it was disappointing, but I guess since it's just the test model and not the actual production model, we're not going to get a detailed look as things may change before launch.

Really hoping that steering wheel changes to a real steering WHEEL

 

[tonybelding]

(I have seen Leno do a steam engine car episode that was pretty interesting).

I saw the Doble steam car episode too, and I really liked that. Worth looking up.

One funny bit was when he quoted from the manual, where it was saying you should have "your man" do various sort of maintenance on the car, with the implicit assumption that anybody who owns a car like this must have a servant to look after it. And then not long after that, without a hint of irony, Jay introduced his mechanic who he has look after the car.

 

[TexasTeslaRacing]

This episode was intentionally more about the Model 3 than the new Roadster.

 

[SMAlset]

This episode was intentionally more about the Model 3 than the new Roadster.

Jay was nice enough about the Model 3 but I didn't get the feeling it was a car for him. Now the new Roadster, a different sense of excitement.

 

[SDRick]

Too bad they did not include the roadster going through some twisties and get Leno's reaction on the handling.