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I think 65,000 is an excellent price. If I had my renovations done I would grabbing it. It’s eligable to be brought to Canada, it’s been well used so it’s ready to drive. You obviously have a good reason to sell. In my mind it’s a great car for anyone in the market and it’s already competitively priced.
 
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2008 Tesla Roadster
VIN:
#364 (US)
Mileage: 9,556
Price: $59,888
Twilight Blue 1.5 for sale at Miramar Car Center in San Diego, CA. 2.0 Base cast rims, body color HT, infotainment system.

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(very reluctantly selling...but it is time...)

2010 Roadster 2.0 - VIN 523
- Electric Blue Premium
- Premium Black / Blue Rally Interior
- Black Forged Wheels
- Xenon Headlamp Retrofit ($2,900)
- Carbon Fiber Hard Top
- Solar Guard Windshield
- Paint Armor
- Soft Top
- NEW Universal Mobile Connector ($1,500)
- Tons of upgrades....for complete listing, please click HERE

Current Mileage - 39,874 Miles
Current Battery CAC - 138.34
Current Ideal Miles (Standard) - 164-168 Miles
Current Ideal Miles (Range) - 216-220 Miles
Every annual service completed by Tesla since 2010.
Full service records, window sticker, and upgrade records available.

Please message for offers.
 
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2010 Roadster Sport
VIN:
#968 (US)
Mileage: 19,623
Price: $69,888 (BIN)
Radiant Red 2.5 Sport for sale by Rancho Santa Fe Motors in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. Black forged rims (rears reverse mounted), body color CF top, soft top, infotainment pkg, Premium Black/Black interior (non-Exec). Car is also being auctioned on eBay here.

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What's the difference between Premium interior and Executive interior?

Premium has the TESLA logo and was an $1800 option. It adds a primary and a secondary color option, if desired.

Executive added leather wrapped steering wheel, dashboard, door handles, and the entire door panels - all with matching stitching. The stitching matches the secondary color. This package was also offered in matching colors for the panels. You can tell immediately if a car has the Executive leather by looking at the door handles. If they're black, it's Executive; if they're silver, it's Premium or Base.

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On Premium, you can have two colors, but the door handle is silver plastic. The dash and door panels are also black plastic.

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On Executive, you can see how the panels are all leather-wrapped and matching. Also notice the black leather wrapped door handle.Since it's Beige/Beige here, the stitching will also be beige.

Of course, there are some discrepancies, as all Roadsters were hand-built and some ended up with random leather-wrapped interior pieces despite not having the Executive package. I know of a 2.5 (premium seats) that came with leather door panels, but it's a much lower quality than the leather offered on an official Executive option. Strange.
 
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2011 Roadster Sport
VIN:
#1434 (US)
Mileage: 15,887
Price: $79,995

Very Orange 3.0 Sport for sale in Walnut, CA. R80 ESS upgrade, black forged rims, ext CF pkg, softtop, SMC, MS/X/3 UMC, CAN-JR, Premium Black/Black interior, infotainment pkg. Last mentioned here.

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2011 Roadster Sport
VIN:
#1434 (US)
Mileage: 15,887
Price: $79,995

Very Orange 3.0 Sport for sale in Walnut, CA. R80 ESS upgrade, black forged rims, ext CF pkg, softtop, SMC, MS/X/3 UMC, CAN-JR, Premium Black/Black interior, infotainment pkg. Last mentioned here.

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This is absurd. @aclass, is this you? For reference, the last 2.5 Sport R80 with exterior carbon & low miles SOLD for $107,500 (just a few months ago). This car here could and should get at least $100,000.

This is the unfortunate reason that the Roadster market is extremely confusing to buyers and will ultimately ruin the value of these incredible cars. Not to mention, the seller is omitting the chance to receive what it’s worth.

Sigh...well I sure hope it goes to a deserving new home and not some parasitic flipper.
 
It's a characteristic of this kind of market: a relatively rare item with a high price tag, that buyers are few and far between. If you can wait a year or two to find the right buyer you can get top dollar. But if, for whatever reason, you need to sell more quickly, you'll have to settle for a lower price. If you get lucky and two people both want it badly enough, they'll bid the price way up, but if the opposite happens, and nobody wants it badly enough (or has the money) you'll have to settle for less. The Roadsters are getting older, but are not old enough yet to be "classics" in the sense of something a 50-year-old remembers from when he was a kid.

It's also a characteristic of markets that there are "market makers," people who will buy something that has a depressed price due to supply exceeding demand (even if it's just one item on offer and no takers) and then sell it later when there's a buyer.
 
I think part of the puzzle is that most every Roadster is different from every other. Those differences should result in a difference in price, but often don't. There's the obvious 1.5 vs 2.0 vs 2.5 model, Sport, color and body condition, 3.0 battery, and perhaps the major options (roof, stereo, seats). But there are a lot of other upgrades and tweaks such as the dual fans on the 2.x and even the HID headlights that may be less obvious and/or even ignored, not to mention the custom ones, such as the brakes. I got lucky and bought a car with both the headlight and fan upgrades, neither of which were advertised, nor ones I even knew to look for. Many sites don't even talk about the 1.5 vs 2.0 vs 2.5; they're all just "Roadsters" to these places.

We all care deeply about our cars, but that attention to detail and pedigree is hardly understood or even acknowledged by non-owner sellers. Compare that to an ad for practically any other car. I think this may be a measure of whether a car is a classic or not, and perhaps why we may not be quite there yet. If that's the case then we all can help by discussing the provenance of these cars whenever we can.