Shocked by the new Roadster rolling out of the Tesla Semi!

[redan]

Where do you reserve it? I didn’t see it in the link.

On site.

 

[hershey101]

It's genius. I wonder how long it will take for the founders to sell ou.... annnnd they're gone.

Are they really??

 

[AMPd]

No need, will probably drive itself.

... reservation cancelled.

 

[hershey101]

Ok, serious question about the roadster... Is everyone here who plans on getting one rich enough to actually just buy it outright with cash? Where does one even acquire a loan for a $300K sports car? I had a hard enough time convincing my bank to fund the $100K for the Model S 4-years ago.

 

[S3XY]

Ok, serious question about the roadster... Is everyone here who plans on getting one rich enough to actually just buy it outright with cash? Where does one even acquire a loan for a $300K sports car? I had a hard enough time convincing my bank to fund the $100K for the Model S 4-years ago.

There will be a lot more of them once the tax cuts go through.

 

[nwdiver]

Ok, serious question about the roadster... Is everyone here who plans on getting one rich enough to actually just buy it outright with cash? Where does one even acquire a loan for a $300K sports car? I had a hard enough time convincing my bank to fund the $100K for the Model S 4-years ago.

I suspect that most of the people buying the founders version of that car wouldn't even notice if their account dropped by $300k....

 

[John W. Ratcliff]

Does anyone have a link to pay the $5k registration?
In answer to the question where do you get money for this. You buy a lot of bitcoin five years ago like I did.

 

[nikeykid]

Holy sh*t

David Hodge on Twitter

 

[gregd]

Ok, serious question about the roadster... Is everyone here who plans on getting one rich enough to actually just buy it outright with cash? Where does one even acquire a loan for a $300K sports car? I had a hard enough time convincing my bank to fund the $100K for the Model S 4-years ago.

Not rich enough here, but I would not expect there to be any banks involved (short of an "after hours withdrawal"). You have 10 day to liquify some assets for the cash. Assuming you have such assets, that can easily be done.

 

[McManX]

Ok who is going for the founders?

 

[Quick2Judge]

Does anyone have a link to pay the $5k registration?

It is now available on Tesla.com

 

[hershey101]

Not rich enough here, but I would not expect there to be any banks involved (short of an "after hours withdrawal"). You have 10 day to liquify some assets for the cash. Assuming you have such assets, that can easily be done.

I was referencing the "normal" reservations...

 

[redan]

[QUOTE="John W. Ratcliff, post: 2414674, member:
In answer to the question where do you get money for this. You buy a lot of bitcoin five years ago like I did.[/QUOTE]

Or refer a lot of Teslas (55 to be exact). And then it’s free.

 

[Tam]

1) The latest one is called Roadster 3.0 . How will this new 2020 Roadster be called?

2) Any speculation on strange looking steering wheel? It's more like for airplanes. Could this be retractable in Full-Self driving mode?

 

[McManX]

1) The latest one is called Roadster 3.0 . How will this new 2020 Roadster be called?

2) Any speculation on strange looking steering wheel? It's more like for spaceships. Could this be retractable in Full-Self driving mode?

fixed

 

[tlo]

"Glass Roof
A lightweight, removable Glass Roof stores in the trunk for an open-air, convertible driving experience."

Does that mean you manually remove it and put it in the trunk or does it slide into the trunk? Wouldn't it be pretty lame to carry the roof into your trunk in a $250K car?

 

[Kipernicus]

Do you guys think the roadster looks a bit like the Mazda RX-8? Didn't Franz design the RX-8?

 

[Mickie]

Mob scene at prototype.
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Like walkers on Shiva

 

[Gen3]

fixed

1) New Roadster.

Standby for roadster supersport with Maximum Plaid

 

[gregd]

1) New Roadster.

Standby for roadster supersport with Maximum Plaid

Oooh, good catch! He never said "Maximum", did he? Left the door open for a Sport model, as insane as that sounds.

Any guesses on a Nurburgring time?