BMW i8 Roadster BMW injected zing into its next generation i8 roadster exterior.
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A website called Where Is Roadster is tracking Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space.
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Lamborghini Centenario Roadster Unlike the comparably downright affordable Coupe, the Centenario Roadster costs $2.3 million.
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The current iterations of the SL-Class cars consist of the 450 Roadster and 550 Roadster.
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It has a bit of a second-generation Tesla Roadster vibe, too — which feels appropriate, since the original Tesla Roadster was based on a Lotus Elise.
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We realize that we need to improve service for Roadster- we are putting in place a dedicated channel to help you with all your Roadster needs.
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For that flight, SpaceX launched CEO Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into space, putting the Roadster on a distant path around the Sun that crosses the orbit of Mars.
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He qualified for the free Roadster in 2017 and earned a second Roadster this year; to date, 115 people have used his referral link to purchase their own cars.
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There were like a few things — [And] the Roadster?
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You can also trade-in your current Roadster and apply the value towards the purchase of a Model S, Model X or Model 3- even a reservation for a next generation Roadster.
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Now, Roadster owners are turning to Carl Medlock, a former service manager at the company, and his Roadster rehab shop in Seattle, which he runs with two of his sons, Randy and Austin.
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For one, the Tesla Roadster already accelerates and brakes incredibly quickly, and the new Roadster is supposedly one of the fastest cars in the world, with a 0–60 time of 1.9 seconds.
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Unless the Tesla Roadster smashes into Mars (unlikely) or an asteroid collides with the sleek vehicle, the Roadster and Starman will be floating through the solar system for a billion or so years.
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Sending Elon Musk's roadster to space Falcon Heavy's debut flight last year attracted massive attention, in part because CEO Elon Musk decided to launch his own luxury Tesla Roadster as the test payload.
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So you want to learn more about the new Roadster?
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Pagani Huayra Roadster is the latest version of Pagani Huayra.
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But his shop will always prioritize Roadster owners, he promised.
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The Semi was as foreboding and the Roadster was enticing.
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On Tuesday, Elon Musk launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit.
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He said Tesla's next generation Roadster will be a convertible.
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Its Falcon Heavy successfully launched a Tesla Roadster into space.
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One of its vehicles, the LM3D roadster, is 75% printed.
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All nine examples of the Veneno Roadster sold out immediately.
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The 1996 Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster, pictured, went for $218,339.
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The next generation of the Tesla Roadster is arriving soon.
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The Roadster isn't expected to go into production until 2020.
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In 22020, Tesla started selling its first car, the Roadster.
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The Miata's concept was based on the classic British roadster.
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On board the rocket is Musk's own 2008 Tesla Roadster.
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We realize that we need to improve service for Roadster.
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The opening guitar licks of "Sabotage" come streaming through the system, and out zips across the stage this bright red little Roadster, which has the very clever name of the Second Generation Tesla Roadster.
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The roadster, however, is only available with an eight-speed automatic.
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Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity.
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The Pagani Zonda S Roadster is more than a decade old.
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Musk promised the Roadster will be the fastest production car available.
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That brings us back to the new Motorrad Vision DC Roadster.
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Tesla released the Roadster, its very first electric car, in 2008.
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The Roadster comes with a pretty funky looking gear switch nob.
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Toyota's Setsuna concept is more than an all-wood roadster concept.
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He eventually chose his own cherry-red Tesla Roadster sports car.
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The Tesla Roadster that SpaceX sent into outer space in Feb.
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Tesla also revealed a surprise new version of its Roadster model.
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The new Roadster clearly takes aim at high end sports cars.
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But the New Roadster, unveiled in 2017, is on the way.
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The truck, the Roadster, do you have another thing you're making?
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While the first Roadster proved electric cars could be quick and striking to look at (even with a relatively small range), the new Roadster aims to ask why the internal combustion engine needs to be around anymore.
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In terms of upcoming vehicles, besides the Model Y, Tesla's got the new Roadster, the Cybertruck, and the Semi lined up, with production start planned for 2020 for the Roadster and Semi and 2021 for the Cybertruck.
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A Pagani Huayra Roadster is expensive — the price starts at $2100 million.
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Image: SpaceXSpaceX's Starman and cherry red Tesla Roadster have traveled beyond Mars.
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But it's the new i8 Roadster convertible that instantly caught my eye.
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Oh, and on that rocket was a Telsa Roadster, because why not?
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There were highs: the launches of the Model 22016, Semi, and Roadster.
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Pop Art (Rating: 10/10) Or maybe the roadster is Pop art.
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The Roadster was the first car Tesla produced, from 2008 to 2012.
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LG: But the Roadster 2.0, that's not coming for a while, right?
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Meanwhile, Tesla started taking orders for its all-electric Roadster last month.
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A screenshot of the "Starman" mannequin in the Telsa Roadster orbiting Earth.
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Like the Tesla Roadster, the Alfa 4C has a pretty basic interior.
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The original Tesla Roadster is very similar to the Lotus Elise car.
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As for Baffert's other horses -- Improbably finished 4th and Roadster finished 15th.
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I don't know him, but ... KS: Anyway, would you want a Roadster?
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Even the new Roadster makes use of von Holzhausen's familiar styling cues.
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Tesla later improved the Roadster, launching the Sport 2.0 version in 2010.
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About five years, later, Tesla found a Roadster for me to revisit.
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For Roadster lovers, there's currently no two-door on sale from Tesla.
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And we actually launched a Tesla — my Tesla Roadster — to Mars orbit.
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And we actually launched a Tesla — my Tesla Roadster to Mars orbit.
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The German automaker's first-ever electric roadster doesn't match the power of Porsche's Taycan, with the i8 Roadster coming with an electric motor with 364 horsepower and a 0 to 60 mph time of 03 seconds, according to BMW.
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Consider the Huayra Roadster a big fat check mark in that final box.
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This 1937 Mercedes-Benz 9.73 K Special Roadster can only carry two passengers.
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This 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Special Roadster can only carry two passengers.
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We've always described this as our first product would be the Tesla Roadster.
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"Six people are on the waiting list for the Roadster here," he says.
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Tesla continues to make progress on an electric semi-truck and new roadster.
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The next-generation Tesla Roadster is going to be great for sunny days.
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By the numbers, there's little reason to buy a $164,000 BMW i8 Roadster.
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Tesla has previously said it will introduce a next-generation Roadster in 2019.
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"There's no, you know, nastiness going on," she says of the Roadster subforum.
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The Tesla Roadster Model 3 is suffering from constant production delays, after all.
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It has a Roadster refresh and Tesla pickup in the works, as well.
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Previously, he launched a Roadster into space for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launch.
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You could see the truck drivers, and it's the same with the Roadster.
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There's no denying that the Aston Martin V83 Vantage GT Roadster is handsome.
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It's a two-door, rear-wheel drive roadster that weighs just 24.5,25 pounds.
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I did also find out that the roadster will have Apple CarPlay installed.
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The base price for a 2019 Aventador S Roadster is a cool $460,247.
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There are some fun stats to be found on that Where Is Roadster?
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Like other Lamborghini supercars, the Veneno Roadster has scissor doors that open vertically.
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The Roadster is also the first production car to be launched into orbit.
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But Tesla's upcoming Roadster update may have them all beat, according to Bouret.
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The $1.68 million Elva roadster is a first of its type for McLaren.
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The Elva is a two-seat roadster, pictured here with the windshield attachment.
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In December, Musk first tweeted about his Roadster payload on the Falcon Heavy.
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Recently, the company successfully launched another rocket carrying a Tesla Roadster to space.
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Brennan's many investments include May Mobility, Nauto, nuTonomy, Joby Aviation, Skip and Roadster.
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At the beginning of this decade, Tesla had just one car: the Roadster.
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The Scottie dog, top hat, roadster car, cat, and battleship tokens will return.
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The Roadster wasn't an original Tesla design; "glider" chassis were borrowed from Lotus.
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The Roadster was how we got to know Tesla and understand Musk's ambition.
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Caption: 2006 | Tesla Motors debuts its Roadster at the San Francisco International Auto Show.
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The rocket will be carrying a cherry red Tesla Roadster, because Mars is red.
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The all-electric Roadster debuted in 2006, when Musk was serving as Tesla's chairman.
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The car is the 32nd Roadster produced as part of the Validation Prototype series.
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Musk recalled in July how the Roadster, its first electric car, was the worst.
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But there's another big claim about the new Tesla Roadster: its 620-mile range.
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And that payload will be Musk's red Tesla Roadster... driven by a dummy, perhaps.
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Tesla has unveiled a new Roadster, the new version of its original sports car.
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At that point, Starman and his trusty Roadster had already made it past Mars.
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Just days after the Roadster unveiling, he revealed his master plan for the company.
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Tesla revealed a new electric Semi truck and Roadster at an event last week.
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If this Chinese roadster is the future of EV sports cars, sign me up.
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The Falcon Heavy carried a red Tesla Motors Roadster with a mannequin strapped inside.
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FOR EXAMPLE, MOST RECENTLY, HE UNVEILED THE SEMI, THE TESLA SEMI, AND THE ROADSTER.
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The car is the second version of the original Roadster, Tesla's first production car.
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The all-electric Roadster launched in 2006, when Musk was serving as Tesla's chairman.
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So the new Roadster is, above all else, a tasteful rocket for the road.
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In 2018, SpaceX flew the first Falcon Heavy, sending Musk's Tesla Roadster into orbit.
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The Aventador S Roadster loaned to the Backus family is priced at approximately $460,247.
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The company recently unveiled a semi-truck as well as a sporty new roadster.
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The Tesla Roadster is a car to covet, but does Mars really need one?
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Musk unveiled a second generation Tesla Roadster in November that boasted eye-popping specifications.
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The Roadster announced, dramatically, what Tesla was all about: fast, sexy, all-electric cars.
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The Miata is a small roadster that recently underwent a diet of its own.
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Aston claims the Vantage Roadster features the fastest fully automatic convertible roof of any car.
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It was the first roadster from the Italian supercar maker, and just 40 were built.
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Now, a Roadster prototype is up for sale on eBay for a whopping $1 million.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk managed to send his Tesla Roadster into space — because why not?
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Mercedes will debut the new Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster at the Paris Motor Show.
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In case you haven't heard, there's an original Tesla Roadster sitting atop the Falcon Heavy.
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There's also a Model Y crossover SUV and a second-generation Roadster on the way.
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Tesla expects to bring similarly lofty numbers to the street with the upcoming Roadster redux.
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"Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity," Musk wrote on Twitter.
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As long as the Roadster doesn't interfere with the Red Planet, SpaceX should be fine.
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That's faster than Tesla's next-generation Roadster prototype that CEO Elon Musk unveiled in November.
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EST Follow Starman's journey with SpaceX's live YouTube feed of the Tesla Roadster in space.
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Lamborghini just unveiled the Roadster version of the most powerful car it has ever built.
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Sadly, Tesla Roadster, Model X and Model 3 are not compatible with the Plugless charger.
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The fairing is the same one that carried a Tesla Roadster into space in 2018.
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The Falcon Heavy actually overshot its trajectory of sending the roadster to orbit near Mars.
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The standout exception was a Jaguar D-Type Roadster that sold for $21,780,000 at Sotheby's.
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The distance "driven" amounts to roughly 762 million miles which, according to Where Is Roadster?
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The roadster version of the Veneno was €3.3 million when it was unveiled in 2014.
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Instead, Musk decided to put his cherry red Tesla Roadster on top of the rocket.
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No reasons why a cabrio version of the New Roadster couldn't be on the agenda?
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Elon Musk says the Tesla 2020 Roadster &aposmaybe won&apost need a key at all.
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Tesla would leverage what it learned from the Roadster to produce mass-market electric vehicles.
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Founded in 2500, Tesla brought its first car, the Roadster, on the market in 22015.
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On Tuesday, Elon Musk had a Tesla Roadster launched toward an orbit around the sun.
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Production of the Roadster started in 2009 and Tesla Motors went public in June 2010.
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The new Mercedes-AMG GT Roadster comes in a particularly fetching shade of leaf green.
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There is the Model Y, the Tesla (pickup) Truck, the Semi and the new Roadster.
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With their Roadster, Tesla demonstrated that electric vehicles need not be boring econobox city cars.
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The original Roadster is perhaps the most important car in the history of electric vehicles.
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"Spirited driving can really gobble juice," he says, remembering an experience in a Tesla Roadster.
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Inside, Musk parked his own Roadster with an astronaut dummy named "Starman" at the wheel.
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The recently unveiled Semi truck and Roadster sports car will arrive at around the same time, according to Musk, both with better performance than originally announced, which included a 500-mile range for the truck and a 250 mph top speed for the Roadster.
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Aston Martin has announced a convertible variant for its Vantage sports car — the new Vantage Roadster.
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It also wants to develop the Model Y, a new roadster and a heavy-duty truck.
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To start with, BMW wanted to build an open-top roadster, Toyota a hardtop sports car.
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The rocket's payload was Elon Musk's personal, $112,000 Tesla roadster, piloted by a vacant SpaceX spacesuit.
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The main booster in the middle carried the rocket's second stage and the Tesla roadster payload.
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A 83 Corvette Roadster sold for $605,000, while a 1969 Corvette L88 convertible went for $577,500.
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Recently, David met with "Fast Money" Trader Tim Seymour to test out a Lamborghini Aventador Roadster.
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Thankfully, with the V8 Vantage GT Roadster, Aston Martin hasn't fallen into any of those traps.
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Accordingly, he accurately identified that the Vantage GT Roadster had to harmoniously live in two worlds.
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We've been watching "Starman" cruise through space in his cosmic Tesla Roadster for a week now.
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Ford fired back at the Chevy Corvette with its own stylish American take on the roadster.
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Beyond Mars, carrying Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, and the hopes and dreams of the space community.
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The second-generation Roadster was unveiled along with the Tesla Semi in November of last year.
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Among other things, the Roadster is supposed to go from 0-60 mph in 1.9 seconds.
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Tesla is currently taking $50,000 reservations for the Roadster, which will have a $200,000 base price.
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Thursday, after unveiling the Tesla Semi truck, Musk announced the next generation high-end Tesla Roadster.
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A decade ago, Tesla was selling one car, the original Roadster, and barely staying in business.
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Tesla has sold more than 500,000 vehicles to date, including the Roadster, S, X and 3.
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Jeff arrived at the trailhead in a blue Tesla Roadster with a Bernie 2016 bumper sticker.
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He added that the Roadster "will be the fastest production car ever made, period," he said.
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That's faster than Tesla's next-generation Roadster prototype that CEO Elon Musk unveiled in November 2017.
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Last very quick question from me, did you see Elon Musk's big truck and his Roadster?
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"I'm not a showy or flashy guy, but I do want the Tesla Roadster," says Baldwin.
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Mazda's been building the roadster for over 25 years, and there's never been a bad one.
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There was a red Tesla Roadster with a dummy in a space suit behind the wheel.
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The original Roadster remains my all-time favorite Tesla, but that's not because it's a beauty.
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The Model S has been around since 2012, and the forthcoming new Tesla Roadster remains ... forthcoming.
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Tuesday's Falcon Heavy rocket launch, if successful, will carry Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster to space.
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On Tuesday SpaceX sent Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into space on its successful first test flight.
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The Figaro may look a bit like a sporty roadster, but performance is hardly the point.
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He owns a Tesla Roadster, but it's not currently parked in his garage — it's in space.
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Image: APA dummy payload consisting of Musk's personal Tesla Roadster sits up top in the cargo hold.
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But the payload was Musk's own Tesla roadster with a spacesuit-wearing dummy in the driver's seat.
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They fought to sell each and every Roadster which provided, candidly, the opposite of 'value for dollar.
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During the game, players get the chance to add the Pagani Huayra Roadster BC to their collection.
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SpaceX option package for new Tesla Roadster will include ~10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around car.
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Her Majesty makes a special appearance on an episode of Disney Junior's Mickey and the Roadster Racers.
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Still, it's worth noting the very same Tesla Roadster was sold for around $65,000 four years ago.
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The Roadster was put up for sale again earlier this week on eBay after securing no bids.
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The company started with a $105,000 Roadster and only produced a total of 2,500 of the cars.
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They range from this wood composite mockup of the Tesla Roadster used for wind tunnel testing to...
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Let me ask you a question: What's better than one $4.5-million, 740-horsepower Lamborghini Veneno Roadster?
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But if all goes well, the rocket stage will eject the Roadster on a path toward Mars.
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If the launch does succeed, sending the Roadster beyond Mars could actually serve a purpose for SpaceX.
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But a comparison against the Rimac C Two would be unfair even to Tesla's next-gen Roadster.
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The 250-horsepower Jaguar D-Type Roadster is one of the most valuable Jaguars in the world.
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If SpaceX wanted to do more with the Roadster, however, then it might run into some friction.
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Sadly, Tesla Roadster, Model X and Model 3 are also not yet compatible with the Plugless charger.
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At times, this means the Roadster will swing out into deeper space, near the orbit of Mars.
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With the Roadster and the S taken care of, the time for the affordable model has come.
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I wasn't precisely clipping corner apexes; I was just tossing the Vantage GT Roadster into hairpin turns.
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Lauren combined his love of cars and fashion in a collection that kept to the roadster theme.
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A red Tesla Roadster will be nestled atop the rocket when it takes off from Cape Canaveral.
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The teen posted two shots of herself to Instagram on Thursday leaning up against her pricey roadster.
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The payload for the mission — Musk's red Tesla roadster — has been enclosed in the rocket's nose cone.
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Tesla unveiled the new Roadster in 2017, and it is expected to arrive as early as 2020.
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When I finish Forza Horizon 4 I don't want to buy some European supercar or vintage roadster.
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The Tesla Semi and second-generation Tesla Roadster created a buzz since they were unveiled on Thursday.
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Visually appealing and whimsical to some, the Tesla Roadster represented a gauche billionaire's midlife crisis to others.
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The Roadster, Model S, Model X, and Model 3 also hit the market well after Musk's targets.
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A freaking Tesla Roadster launched toward Mars on a whim by an eccentric billionaire with a dream.
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These include the G63 SUV, GTC Coupe, GT Roadster, GT63 4-Door Coupe, and E63 S Wagon.
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Spears has reportedly owned several cars, including a Mercedes-Benz SL65 Roadster and 1956 Porsche 356A Speedster.
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If the Model S is von Holzhausen's triumph, then the new Roadster is his labor of love.
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The rocket carries a red Tesla roadster into space, replete with a fake astronaut in the driver's seat.
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Brad is behind the wheel of a 1960 Karmann Ghia roadster -- an awesome car back in the day.
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He also took to Twitter to talk about a rocket-powered Roadster, which he claims is for real.
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The Roadster Sport had a range of 244 miles and could accelerate to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds.
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He was trying to secure funding there, and in various other places, for his first model: the Roadster.
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This vehicle won't be launching any scientific payloads, but instead will loft SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Tesla roadster.
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The recall does not affect later Model S vehicles, Roadster, Model X or its more affordable Model 3.
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As long as the rocket doesn't explode, the Roadster will be sent on a wide orbit around Mars.
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Musk's company is launching a red Tesla Roadster blasting the song "Space Oddity" out into the solar system.
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Edgar Heinrich, the Head of Design for BMW Motorrad, argues that the Vision DC Roadster does just that.
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Absent the Roadster and then the model S, the industry wouldn't be in the place it is now.
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Lotus worked with Tesla to create the original Tesla Roadster, which was based on a Lotus sports car.
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For its first voyage, the rocket will carry a dummy payload consisting of Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster.
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Model S will always be the fastest Tesla until next gen Roadster, which is a few years away.
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The BMW 328 Mille Miglia Roadster is the car perched precariously close to the roof of Goodwood House.
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Startup Detroit Electric planned a four-speed manual in its SP 01 roadster before the company went bust.
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This is the only car that we've driven at Business Insider that really compares with the Tesla Roadster.
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Wheels HE had hired five vintage auto inspectors to pore over every inch of the gleaming red roadster.
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Now, thanks to a successful launch, a red Tesla Roadster carrying a faux astronaut is flying through space.
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Tesla's first model, the two-seat Roadster, which was produced from 2008 to 2011, also had its problems.
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He sued Musk in 2009, alleging libel and accusing Musk of taking unfair credit for the Tesla Roadster.
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The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.
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Tesla's first Roadster listed for over $110,000 and the Model S sedan had a base price of $72,000.
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A third burn was successful, Musk Tweeted late on Tuesday, sending the Tesla Roadster into its planned trajectory.
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This guy will be in my all-gray exacta, trifecta and super boxes along with Tacitus and Roadster.
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For the 2019 model year, BMW unveiled a convertible version of the sports car called the i8 Roadster.
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The i8 Roadster came with a higher price tag and two seats instead of the hard-top's four.
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To test a rocket last February, the founder of Tesla, Elon Musk, famously launched his roadster into space.
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I'm a reporter who writes for a living, but I've met my match with the Vintage Electric Roadster.
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You can watch the live feed of the Tesla Roadster floating through space in the SpaceX video below.
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"I get up around eight, and then I may take the roadster or the boat out," he said.
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The new Aston Martin Vantage Roadster, a convertible version of the Vantage coupe, is here to join its sibling.
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That makes sense when you consider that the Vantage Roadster is roughly 132 pounds heavier than its coupe counterpart.
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We got clued into some new Tesla vehicles, like the Roadster sports car and Model Y mid-size SUV.
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This 1932 Bugatti Type 55 Roadster retains its original coachwork and components, and got a loving restoration in 2013.
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This 1932 Bugatti Type 20163 Roadster retains its original coachwork and components, and got a loving restoration in 2013.
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John Lennon's vintage 1965 Mercedes Benz Roadster just sold at auction for nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
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"Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity," Musk tweeted in December prior to its launch.
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The German marque handled key development efforts and recently introduced its version as the replacement for the Z4 roadster.
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They also have many other cool designs like the "American Made" with a vintage-roadster worthy bald eagle design.
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In fact, the current Pagani Huayra Roadster looks quite a bit like the Zonda, if you squint a little.
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According to the vehicle history report, the Roadster has had three different owners and is currently registered in California.
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There was even a surprise cameo from the ghost of Tesla's Christmas past: the second generation of the Roadster.
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There is very little storage available in the Roadster variant that ditches the back seats for the droptop storage.
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This rocket represents an upgrade from the first Falcon Heavy that launched a Tesla Roadster to orbit last year.
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The final burn was successful, according to Elon Musk, but the Roadster is also no longer going to Mars.
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Will watching the occasional episode of Mickey and the Roadster Racers turn my kids into violent abusers as adults?
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Falcon Heavy t-shirts, hyperloop stickers, and framed posters of SpaceX's Tesla Roadster-driving "Starman" — all available for purchase.
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Musk earned that honor for the Roadster and Model X, but not for the Model S, he noted. pic.twitter.
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The cabs are here — except in the case of Pauly "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio, it's a Lamborghini Aventador Roadster.
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The Roadster, you're dealing with a very small group of the population that buy in this over-$33,23 category.
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The Heavy's payload was Musk's personal Tesla roadster, a $100,000 luxury car made by one of Musk's other companies.
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Where the Roadster barely filled up the bottom portion of the fairing's interior, the satellites look positively crammed in.
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The same stats for Tesla's new Roadster: 0-60 in 1.9 seconds and a top speed of 250 mph.
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Tesla is one of the newer car brands out there, with its first car, the Roadster, arriving in 2008.
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When the 2014 Lamborghini Veneno Roadster debuted at a Geneva auto show, the car was priced at $4.5 million.
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Thousands of people watched as SpaceX launched its Tesla Roadster to space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday.
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It'll have some heavyweight company, however — that's the same target Tesla is shooting for with its $200,000 new Roadster.
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The show will also be a first opportunity for most mortals to see the Roadster version of the i83.
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Top off your mint julep and place your bets: Will it be Tacitus, Roadster, Improbable or Game Winner (above)?
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Mr. Gendel lived well on his Fulbright money, buying a 1935 Fiat roadster, and met important patrons and artists.
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And at the Santa Anita Derby, the second betting choice, Roadster, steered by Smith, edged the favored Game Winner.
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Courtesy of eBay Selling for $349,800 on the platform, a 2015 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster followed Michael Jordan's 1997 card.
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Then Ze'ev Drori came on as CEO and launched the Roadster in 2008, with its six-figure price tag.
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Shortly after Musk's big fiery reveal, the Cybertruck tab appeared on Tesla's website between the Model Y and Roadster.
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The SpaceX and Tesla chief recently launched a cherry red Tesla Roadster into space on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Most car designers want to design a sports car, and that's what von Holzhausen did with the new Roadster.
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That's not quite the claimed 620-mile range of the Tesla Roadster, but still plenty to curb range anxiety.
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Am I advocating for a total throwback, to the era of three gauges, à la this vintage Siata roadster?
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If all goes according to plan, the rocket will carry Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster to elliptical Mars orbit.
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Elon Musk hoped that the Tesla Roadster his company, SpaceX, launched into outer space Tuesday would land on Mars.
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Yeah. I mean, I wrote down some of it, but ... But the truck is more immediate, [and] the Roadster?
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The library hitched a ride on Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in February after Spivak caught Musk's attention on Twitter.
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Tesla is making a new version of the Roadster sports car, Elon Musk announced Thursday night, and it looks spectacular.
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In the meantime, Zynga rebuilt the Pagani Huayra Roadster BC in CSR2, giving users a chance to "drive" the supercar.
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Always a fan of theatrics, Elon Musk unveiled a surprise new Roadster at Tesla's Semi Truck event on Thursday night.
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Roadster drivers may be some of the earliest supporters of Tesla, but many feel neglected by Elon Musk's car company.
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But the surprise showing of the second-generation Tesla Roadster caused explosive cheers from the second its headlights switched on.
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The Prototype 10 is an update on the Prototype 9, a more retro electric roadster revealed at the 2017 event.
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Finally, the CEO also used the interview to highlight some more details about the upcoming revamp of the company's Roadster.
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And occupants get to experience all the sonorous splendor of that powerful V12, too, as the Roadster offers no roof.
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While certainly rare, the Veneno Roadster is virtually commonplace compared to the Veneno Coupe of which Lamborghini only built two.
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Tesla reported record revenue for 20173, floated by customer deposits of the recently announced Semi truck and Roadster sports car.
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It also includes numerous new shots of the prep for the launch, including Musk's infamous red Tesla Roadster being attached.
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The 23-story-tall jumbo rocket carried a Tesla Inc Roadster from the assembly line of Musk's electric car company.
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Rivian was founded in 2009, back when the Tesla Roadster was still pretty much the only EV catching anyone's eyes.
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It was unearthed to reveal that it was a remarkably intact 1933 Plymouth roadster, complete with its signature suicide doors.
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After launching a Roadster into space, Elon Musk took to Tesla's quarterly earnings call to explain Model 3 production delays.
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The rocket's payload was the first Tesla roadster, a $2141,7373 luxury vehicle produced by Musk's company nearly a decade ago.
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Perhaps that's what I like most about the Vantage GT Roadster: It's a great car for stylishly getting around town.
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According to Musk, it appears the Roadster will instead overshoot these estimates, and keep driving on until the asteroid belt.
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What's next: The final payload will deploy Musk's cherry-red Tesla roadster into a highly elliptical orbit around the sun.
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Musk has a Ford Model T, which a friend gave him, and a Jaguar Series 1 1967 E-type Roadster.
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"He said the Roadster will be available in 2020 and Semi [truck] will be entering production next year," Chanos said.
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This contrasts with Tesla, which late on Thursday unveiled an electric heavy duty truck as well as a new roadster.
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Driven FOR the last few decades, people with modest bank accounts could only dream of buying a new Italian roadster.
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Tesla did respond to a request for comment on the Roadster test drive by the time this story was published.
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Drivers of Tesla&aposs next Roadster model might not need a key to start the car, Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday.
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Each of Tesla's vehicles, from the Roadster to the latest Semi, were driven onstage before the blue Model Y appeared.
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But his most prized possession is a $600,13 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster Galaxy, its exterior custom wrapped to resemble outer space.
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Instead, Musk will launch an original Tesla Roadster playing David Bowie's "Space Oddity" into "a billion year elliptic Mars orbit."
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Game Winner was one of THREE Baffert-trained horses that ran in the 2019 Derby, running with Improbably and Roadster.
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The rocket carried a playful payload: Mr. Musk's red Roadster, an electric sports car built by his other company, Tesla.
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It was a win-win-win for the trainer Bob Baffert, the California-based trainer of Roadster and Game Winner.
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Today, the i8 Coupe retails for a base MSRP of $147,500, while the Roadster can be had for around $163,300.
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Before the movie ends Sue Ann's turquoise Sunbeam roadster will seem as menacing as the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Tesla has a semitruck, a pickup truck, a revamped Roadster, an ATV, and a small SUV somewhere on the horizon.
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He once bought a limited-edition silver Mercedes SLR McLaren roadster, with a supercharged AMG V8 engine, for $465,000. Mrs.
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Analysts said the improving customer deposit figures are driven by its recently announced Tesla Semi truck and next generation Roadster.
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Instead, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk put his own Tesla Roadster onboard, turning the event into a brilliant cross-marketing event.
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Roadster is trained by hall-of-famer Bob Baffert, who also trained recent Triple Crown winners Justify and American Pharoah.
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By the time the Roadster had been officially retired, the battery pack had been upgraded to an 80 kWh capacity.
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The Roadster might bump into some space dust and disintegrate a little, but in all likelihood, it'll be just fine.
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Aston claims the roadster can reach 60 mph in 3.7 seconds on its way to a top speed of 190 mph.
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In addition to the new roadster, Aston announced that a seven-speed manual transmission is now available for the Vantage Coupe.
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The Italian supercar manufacturer unveiled its new nearly $3.5 million Huayra Roadster BC in CSR2, the mobile game produced by Zynga .
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The man seems thrilled with the idea of his sexy midnight cherry Roadster drifting for eternity through the depths of space.
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But keep in mind several prototypes were made prior to the validation series, so it's not the 32nd Roadster ever produced.
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Although Tesla put the customer in a loaner Model S while he was waiting, he eventually took his Roadster to Medlock.
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It's not sending people into space yet, but SpaceX did recently launch founder Elon Musk's cherry-red Tesla Roadster into orbit.
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Elon Musk promised a surprise during the Tesla semi unveiling event, and boy did he deliver: the return of the Roadster.
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Tesla will reveal a new Roadster in 2019, according to a statement by CEO Elon Musk in July of last year.
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Last week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk launched his now-famous red Tesla Roadster into space, atop the first Falcon Heavy rocket.
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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk predicted the Roadster would overshoot these estimates, and keep driving on until the asteroid belt.
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For this test run, Falcon Heavy will carry a cherry-red Tesla Roadster, owned by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
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One is a Model T that a friend gave me and the other is a Series 1 '67 E-type Roadster.
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Launching a Tesla Roadster into outer space may have been ridiculous, but the vehicle is far from being worthless space junk.
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The top choice, at 21978-2, is Game Winner, followed by Roadster and Improbable, who were both given 5-1 odds.
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Though the brand set some of its more high-end models, like this GT C Roadster, apart from the other cars.
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The roadster version of the Nissan 370Z, but the automaker will continue producing the coupe version, according to Car and Driver.
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"Not saying the next gen Roadster special upgrade package *will* definitely enable it to fly short hops, but maybe … "Certainly possible.
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Tesla is showing the production version of its gobsmacking, revived Roadster at the Grand Basel motor show in Switzerland this week.
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The Falcon Heavy's maiden flight occurred on February 6, 2018 and famously delivered a Tesla Roadster into orbit around the Sun.
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Tesla garnered a lot of attention in 2008 when it released its very first electric car — the wildly sexy Tesla Roadster.
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The Roadster Sport boasted a range of 245 miles and could accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in just 3.7 seconds.
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Roadster, who required a long layoff after throat surgery to clear blocked airways, had no points in designated Derby prep races.
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The Silicon Valley upstart is also working to roll out its semi truck and revamped Roadster sports car sometime next year.
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BMW&aposs electrified vehicles include the i3 electric sedan and the i33 Coupe and i8 Roadster plug-in hybrid sports cars.
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The Aventador S Roadster uses Lamborghini's 730bhp and 6.5-litre V12 and can accelerate from 0-62mph in 6003 seconds exactly.
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In 2018, Musk noted that the first generation Tesla Roadster allowed for that, and that the idea might be worth reconsidering.
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This animated video from SpaceX, embedded below, shows how the Tesla roadster was released into space from the Falcon Heavy rocket.
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And while Tesla had built the Roadster in 2179, wowing car nerds with its acceleration, it was still a niche product.
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A cherry red Tesla Roadster owned by Elon Musk is set to be fired into space on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
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A Tesla Roadster sports car, launched from the Falcon Heavy rocket with a dummy driver named "Starman," heads toward Mars, Feb.
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It would also be slightly quicker than the Tesla Roadster, which promises a 0-to-60-mph time of 1.9 seconds.
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Think of it as our version of the Tesla Roadster: it's the quickest way to get started, and get operations going.
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But what makes the Roadster interesting is that it doesn't really align with Musk's push to make electric vehicles more affordable.
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Unlike the Model 3, Tesla's more affordable car for the everyman, the Roadster is basically a very expensive, shiny, fast toy.
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The Roadster will orbit the sun for the next million years or so and then could crash land into the Sun.
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Tesla's luxury vehicles — the Roadster, the Model S and the Model X — have all been low-volume businesses and intentionally so.
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Officially known as the Zonda S 7.3 Roadster, the car promised no loss of performance from the coupe Zonda S. Under the hood, the Roadster had a 33-liter Mercedes-Benz AMG V12 capable of producing 555 horsepower and 553 pound-feet of torque, enough to propel the car from 0 to 62 mph in 3.7 seconds.
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We're more inclined to believe him when he claims the Roadster will be the fastest, quickest production car in the world than say, his statements that the Boring Company was granted permission to tunnel on the East Coast of the US — but the Roadster will still have to show what it can do in public to take the crown.
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The 2021 Vantage Roadster starts at around $161,000 in the US, and deliveries will begin in the second quarter of this year.
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Tesla also will roll out a pickup truck in 18 to 24 months and a new roadster convertible is in the works.
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The Bavarian carmaker was finding it impossible to pencil in a case for developing an all-new version of its Z4 roadster.
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AMG has had a meddle with the SLC 2-seater roadster and the C-Class, making the C43 coupe, cabriolet, and sedan.
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AMG has had a meddle with the SLC 243-seater roadster and the C-Class, making the C24 coupe, cabriolet, and sedan.
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A Tesla Roadster launched from the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with a dummy driver named "Starman" heads toward Mars on Feb. 8.
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It's worth noting that this is the early, fancy version — if Sudden were Tesla, this would be the Roadster phase, suggested Freese.
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A Tesla Roadster, launched from the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with a dummy driver named "Starman," heads toward Mars on Feb. 8.
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During Tesla's semi truck event tonight, CEO Elon Musk had a surprise up his sleeve: a new version of the Tesla Roadster.
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Most notably, BMW will launch the i8 Roadster in 2018, which the German luxury carmaker teased with the i8 Spyder pictured above.
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The day of the Falcon Heavy launch, he saw that people online were asking questions about tracking the Tesla Roadster in space.
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"If we can send a Roadster to the asteroid belt we can probably solve Model 19003 production," he joked a little later.
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SpaceX tested the rocket last February, along with simultaneous booster landings in Florida, to carry a red Tesla roadster into deep space.
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Musk led two funding rounds and co-led a third before Tesla's first production vehicle, the Roadster, was finally unveiled in 2006.
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A "tricked out" Lamborghini Aventador Roadster, which he reportedly purchased for $450,000 from poker player and Instagram celebrity Dan Bilzerian in 2015.
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The coupe and roadster variants go on sale in Europe this fall starting at €2400,400, which works out to $75,000 and change.
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He said the vehicle would be unveiled in March and begin production in 2020 along with Tesla Semi and the new Roadster.
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Some possibilities include a new vehicle (many have been looking for a Roadster 2.0 launch), or improvements to its autonomous driving features.
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At 9:30 pm Eastern time Tuesday, the rocket is expected to fired again, sending the Tesla Roadster out of Earth's orbit.
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However, the Koenigsegg CCXR, at $4.8 million, and the Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, at $4.5 million, would be at or near the top.
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Sure, SpaceX may have launched a Tesla Roadster into space, but Space Bae launched a wave of crushes all across the internet.
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Given the competition — the GT Roadster is aimed directly at Porsche's venerable 911 Cabriolet — the Mercedes team has a tough challenge ahead.
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It's been quite a journey for the spacesuit-clad dummy who should still be positioned at the wheel of the spacefaring Roadster.
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Over the years, I've driven all of Tesla's vehicles: the original Roadster, the Model S, the Model X, and the Model 3.
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The Roadster was instrumental in changing perceptions about EVs, which up to that point had been thought of as glorified golf carts.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk made his personal Roadster, piloted by "Starman," the payload on the 2018 launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Whichever you might prefer, the best thing about the 124 Spider is that it gives the affordable roadster segment another choice. Bellissimo!
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Elon Musk suggested that Tesla is working on a new powertrain that will make the Model S, Model X, and Roadster quicker.
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The new Roadster will do 0-60 mph in 1.9 seconds, the company said, and its base model will start at $200,000.
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"If we can send a Roadster to the asteroid belt," Mr. Musk said Wednesday, "I think we can solve Model 3 production."
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This new Nancy might be messy, but she is, like the Nancys before her, brave, resourceful and a demon in her roadster.
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Tesla's first electric vehicle, the Roadster, rolled off the assembly line in 2008, and its Autopilot feature has been included since 2015.
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That makes for a reasonably enjoyable car, but the M Roadster went farther, using the engine from the high-performance BMW M3.
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Moss said the company refers to the R1 as the "Tesla Roadster" — it was meant to showcase that the technology was possible.
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A cherry red Tesla (TSLA) Roadster owned by Elon Musk is set to be fired into space on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.
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The design was borrowed from Lotus, and the UK automaker supplied Tesla with chassis through the Roadster&aposs run, from 2008-2012.
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The Roadster hit the market priced at $80,000, but by the time the third upgrade was retired, the sticker had topped $150,000.
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Piloted by "Starman," Musk's personal Candy Red Roadster was mounted atop SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket and sent into orbit in early 2018.
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But it continued to dangle the carrot with an announcement this week that the flying roadster will cost at least $1.3 million.
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The goal with the Tesla Roadster is to show that an electric car can be the best sports car on every dimension.
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It first introduced the Roadster, a high-end electric sports car that was both expensive and impractical for most generic automotive applications.
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This isn't the first Tesla recall by far: the company has previously (and voluntarily) recalled the Roadster, Model S, and a charging cable.
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Coming nearly 10 years after the original Roadster, the Model 3 is Tesla's shot at an electric vehicle for the everyday car buyer.
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Downstairs, the 10-car "museum" comes stocked with a gold Rolls-Royce Dawn and Lamborghini Aventador roadster, should the buyer's collection be lacking.
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Image: SpaceXBy now it's old news—somewhere in space, there's a red Tesla Roadster with a spacesuit-wearing dummy in the passenger's seat.
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It boasts a seven-speed, single-clutch automated manual transmission and weighs 2,756 pounds, just a skosh lighter than the regular Huayra Roadster.
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Batteries aboard the car lasted for 12 hours, providing striking views of the Tesla Roadster orbiting over the Earth broadcast live by SpaceX.
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As fans gasped, Musk said the Roadster had a 200kWh battery pack and a 620-mile range per charge, or over 1,000 kilometers.
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If Rimac's claimed specs are accurate, the C_Two leaves its predecessor and even Tesla's upcoming Roadster behind in terms of speed and horsepower.
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Musk decided to make his own Tesla Roadster the Falcon Heavy's test payload, complete with an astronaut mannequin riding in the driver's seat.
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Musk's new rocket will launch with only a single, cherry-red Tesla Roadster — Musk's own, in fact — carrying a mannequin in a spacesuit.
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But since then we've seen other electric supercars, like Nio's EP9 and the new Tesla Roadster with its unbelievable sounding range and performance.
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Tesla also has two other models that are waiting in the wings — the Roadster and the Tesla Semi, which are both under development.
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The company is planning at least two new cars — the Model Y and the second-generation Roadster — and an all-electric semi truck.
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And the company has had 10 years experience since the 201 launch of the original Tesla Roadster to work on its battery chemistry.
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SpaceX sent a rocket into orbit with a Tesla Roadster attached as part of its payload ... a major step forward for colonizing Mars.
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Following Omaha Beach in the rankings was Roadster (5-1), Game Winner (5-1) and Improbable (6-1), all three-time race winners.
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The rocket will contain nothing more than a red Tesla Roadster — another Musk product — blasting David Bowie's song "Space Oddity" on its radio.
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Armed with a new name and a fixed roof, the Toyota 86 is out to prove that a roadster isn't the only way.
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SpaceX engineers were mostly correct in their launch calculations, which included the weight of the Roadster and the domed-base it sat on.
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Elon Musk launched his own Tesla Roadster on top as a test payload, and there are some incredible photos of the launch. 3.
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The original Roadster wasn't an original Tesla design: it was based on a Lotus platform, with Tesla adding the drivetrain, batteries, and software.
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Bouret, a college roommate of Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen, says he drove the Roadster prototype when Tesla debuted it in November.
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Also on the drawing board is the Tesla Electric Semi, an all-electric pickup truck and a new version of the Tesla Roadster.
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Sunday night, the billionaire teased the notion that the only thing stopping Tesla's most souped up Tesla Roadster from flying is safety precautions.
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The company, which is owned by Beijing CH-Auto Technology Co., plans to produce the lightweight roadster in the eastern city of Suzhou.
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The EV market got a boost in 2008, which saw the launch of the high-profile Tesla Roadster along with spiking oil prices.
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This documentary video looks back at Tesla's storied history, from the birth of the Roadster to the rocky rise of the Model 3.
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In November, before a screaming audience of several hundred guests, Mr. Musk unveiled a battery-powered semi truck and a two-seat roadster.
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It sat in the driver's seat of a red Tesla Roadster that belonged to Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX.
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According to Lamborghini, the Aventador Roadster has an aspirated 6.5 liter V-12 engine, putting out 515 kW, or about 690 mechanical horsepower.
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In addition to driving Teslas, Musk owns two gas-powered cars: a Ford Model T and a Jaguar E-Type Series 1 Roadster.
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He qualified for the free Roadster in 2017; to date, over 100 people have used his referral link to purchase their own cars.
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To make the rocket launch more entertaining, Musk put his own cherry red Tesla Roadster in the rocket to be released into space.
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The Tesla Roadster is to be sent on an elliptical orbit around the Sun and will at one stage pass closely by Mars.
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Musk and company decided to load the rocket with an original Tesla Roadster with a SpaceX suit-wearing dummy in the driver's seat.
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If Mr. Paul could sell 20,000 pairs of socks (printed with an image of his colorful parrot, Maverick), he would get the roadster.
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But even if you love to drive fast, it's likely you'll never drive a Tesla Roadster, either — the new base model costs $200,000.
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Online car dealerships, such as Roadster, Carvana and Vroom, hope to entice car buyers with promises like free delivery and money back guarantees.
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"Now the 100 Roadster Signature owners and 1,000 Model S signature owners are joined by the 400,000 Model 3 loyalists — in similar fashion, I suppose, to how Apple II and Mac owners from the 80s feel when they see people on their iPhones and iPads," angel investor Jason Calacanis, owner of a Roadster signature 16 and Model S signature 0000001, previously told Recode.
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"If we can send a Roadster to the asteroid belt, we can probably solve Model 3 production," Musk said on an investors call today.
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The Coen brothers'–directed Mercedes commercial for its AMG GT Roadster features actor Peter Fonda, and TV ad impressions have reached nearly 67 million.
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The Falcon Heavy carried a unique payload: a dummy dubbed "Starman," and Musk's personal cherry red Tesla Roadster, which were launched toward Martian orbit.
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While Model 3 customers wait, Tesla has dug in its heels and reminded its fans where the brand love all began: the 2008 Roadster.
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Correction: A previous version of this story described the Tesla Roadster as the fastest production car ever made, instead of, if made, the quickest.
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Last night, Tesla had a bit of a celebration for itself, unveiling its new Semi truck and (in a surprise) a second-generation Roadster.
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And if and when I slide into the driver's seat of the new Roadster, it surely won't be the first thing on my mind.
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In its earliest years, before Musk became the company's CEO, Tesla partnered with Lotus to make its ground breaking electric sports car, the Roadster.
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It should be noted, though, that the animation shows the Roadster getting far closer to Mars than it would actually appear in real life.
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And that would be a good time for "space enthusiasts" to go retrieve the Roadster, so that it can end up in a museum.
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I'm sure we'll get a lot more looks at the Roadster in action leading up to its launch, which is currently set for 2020.
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The satellite went up just a month before SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, putting a Tesla roadster into an orbit around the Sun.
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If SpaceX wanted the Roadster to perform a specific task — such as land on Mars or an asteroid — it would be a different story.
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They were the first person you knew to buy a 4K TV, and they somehow had a Tesla Roadster before Elon Musk got his.
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As the Verge's transportation editor, Warren covered Elon Musk's unveiling of Tesla's latest project, the Semi truck, as well as the sexy new Roadster.
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The one thing I can conclude already about the Vantage GT12 Roadster is that the car does indeed live up to its design brief.
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Musk has a Ford Model T, which a friend gave him, and a Jaguar Series 1 1967 E-type Roadster, he says, via Twitter.
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The Roadster revival once again gives Tesla a halo car, something that lets the company make claims of breathtaking acceleration, top speed, and range.
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It was boosted by several record-breaking cars at the very top, including a 1955 Jaguar D-Type Roadster that sold for $21.8 million.
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But Musk launched a cherry-red Tesla Roadster into orbit around the sun, where SpaceX has claimed it would stay for millions of years.
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Foreshadowing the production problems that would plague the company in the future, early versions of the Roadster were slower than a $30,000 Honda S2000.
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The joys of piloting a vintage roadster along a winding coastal road in Northern California can rapidly deteriorate in the clogged arteries of Manhattan.
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The roadster, which carries a plaque inscribed with the names of more than 6,000 SpaceX employees, could instead end up in perpetual Earth orbit.
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It carried a spacesuit-wearing mannequin, nicknamed Starman, seated in the driver's seat of a red Roadster built by Mr. Musk's other company, Tesla.
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Brennan is known as much for his popular FoT newsletter as his investments, which include May Mobility, Nauto, nuTonomy, Joby Aviation, Skip and Roadster.
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The February 2018 launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, with the Roadster as its test payload, reminded the world of Tesla's first vehicle.
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That thing: A revamped, electric Tesla Roadster with four seats and the ability to go from 0 to 0003 mph in just 1.9 seconds.
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We've already established that Elon Musk takes all his jokes seriously, so when he said he'll send a Tesla Roadster to space, we believed him.
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Screenshot: RedditAn apparently leaked photo emerged on Reddit late last night purportedly showing Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster getting fitted atop a Falcon Heavy cargo capsule.
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So what better way to flex the muscle of the Falcon Heavy by having it fling a 4,000-pound Tesla Roadster into the Great Beyond?
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More established brands are also pushing for performance electrics, as Tesla gears up to build the next Roadster and Porsche puts its Taycan on sale.
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The Miss R prototype will challenge the Tesla Roadster for the title of the world's fastest car once both the speedsters actually hit the road.
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So, after returning home to Gaza, he set about building a replica of the 1927 model of the two-door, open-top roadster from scratch.
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"He took my Roadster, installed sound installation, made a couple of other changes and it became like a different car," Vaskevitch said in an interview.
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This included everything from the expected, like renderings of a Faraday Future coupe and roadster, to the bizarre, like a Faraday Future helicopter and yacht.
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The stunning four-seater roadster boasts jaw-dropping numbers, that if they measure up to Musk's claims, will make it the world's quickest production car.
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The first Falcon Heavy's "payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity," Musk wrote on Twitter, referencing the famous David Bowie song.
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BMW is developing a roadster version of its hybrid i8 supercar, as well as a next generation electric autonomous car which is known as iNext.
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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, which launched on top of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy on Tuesday, is going farther out into the Solar System than originally planned.
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Currently on the back burner are the crossover Model Y, a Tesla pickup truck, the Semi tractor trailer, and the next generation of the Roadster.
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Mount's daughter has her eyes on the Plymouth roadster, and there's been some bench racing on how the speedster might look in new race livery.
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The inaugural launch of the gigantic rocket happened on February 6, 2018, in which Musk's red Tesla roadster was flung into the depths of space.
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The shift to battery electric vehicles is expected to put some of Audi's familiar lineup at risk, notably some performance products like the TT roadster.
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I jumped into the navy blue roadster, pushed the crystalline key into the ignition, queued the AC/DC and roared up the hill after him.
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The launch test is another step toward colonizing Mars, which is why SpaceX is sending a Tesla Roadster as part of the rocket's test payload.
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The rocket's first planned payload isn't astronauts, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster, which is destined to be placed in orbit around Mars.
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Revolutionary technologies always start as impractical and expensive, Mr. Musk explained, so Tesla's first car would be a two-seat roadster that sold for $110,000.
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More than 10 years after Tesla released its first vehicle, the Roadster sports car, some competitors are still unable to match its 245-mile range.
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At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting last month, Elon Musk, the company's chief executive, acknowledged that the Roadster had been plagued by a number of issues.
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Eight years removed from the launch of the Roadster, Tesla has the Model S and the Model X, with Model 3 a few years away.
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Asimov's stories are on a quartz disk in a case aboard a cherry red Tesla Roadster, delivered to space by the SpaceX Heavy Falcon rocket.
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He gets to spend a birthday weekend with his mother, who arrives in a cloud of perfume, with red lipstick that matches her red roadster.
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The 2020 Roadster that came out this summer is not your average pedal-assist bicycle, and not just because of its retro sports car look.
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Now you have ... 'cause Kristaps Porzingis shoved his giant frame into what appears to be a Tesla Roadster Monday night -- and the video is hilarious!!!
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Furthermore, in November, Tesla unveiled a second-generation Roadster the company said will go zero to 60 miles per hour in a record 1.9 seconds.
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Falcon Heavy's debut flight last year attracted massive attention, in part because Musk decided to launch his own luxury Tesla Roadster as the test payload.
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The original Tesla Roadster was made and delivered to customers from 2008 to 2012, meaning the cars are between seven and 11 years old today.
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Elon Musk crashed his own party at Tesla's Semi event with a surprise staged to the Beastie Boys banger: Tesla's making a brand-new Roadster.
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Tesla shifted its focus from the smaller Roadster to the luxurious, five-door Model S and officially launched the coveted EV in June of 2012.
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Tesla&aposs first vehicle was the original Roadster, and even CEO Elon Musk now admits it was an early draft of what Tesla could do.
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We got out first taste of Alfa's return to America with the 4C, a taut little mid-engine roadster that's like a shrunken-down Ferrari.
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Per the Verge, after breaking away from its upper stage (the portion of the Falcon Heavy carrying its Tesla Roadster payload), the core experienced engine problems.
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In the real world, the Pagani Huayra Roadster BC gets its power from a 6.0-liter, twin-turbocharged V12 engine built for Pagani by Mercedes-AMG.
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" Tesla's boss also spoke about the company's upcoming four-seater sports car, the Roadster, boasting the vehicle would be "the fastest sports car on every dimension.
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The space and electric car mogul tweeted on Friday that the rocket would be carrying "my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster," aimed at the orbit of Mars.
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When Elon Musk stunned the automotive world with the reveal of the Tesla Roadster, speed junkies everywhere reeled at the potential promised by the new sedan.
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If Kathryn wins, she gets Sebastian's 21999 Jaguar roadster; if Sebastian wins, he gets to "put it anywhere," as Kathryn says, splayed suggestively on her bed.
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There's a fun and functional side with both the Roadster and Semi, and further proof Tesla wants to be in every corner of the transportation world.
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There's also a semi and a new Roadster bopping around in the mix, by which I mean Musk said the company's is making progress on both.
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BMW says the new Coupe and Roadster are basically the same dimensions as each other, with the former standing just two millimeters taller than the latter.
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Elon Musk shared the last image of the Roadster — equipped with a "Starman" at the wheel — before it spends the rest of eternity somewhere in space.
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More likely, the Roadster is just going to keep floating around space — and maybe crash into the Earth, Venus, or the Sun within 10 million years.
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Mere minutes after successfully launching the Falcon Heavy rocket on the first try, SpaceX is now live streaming footage from Tesla Roadster it released into space.
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In Mickey Mouse and the Roadster Racers, the franchise's latest installment, every character gets to drive a race car, but off the track things go downhill.
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The new car is a German and Japanese mashup, with Toyota's styling underpinned by BMW's Z265 roadster chassis and powered by a BMW straight-six engine.
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The new car is a German and Japanese mashup, with Toyota's styling underpinned by BMW's Z4 roadster chassis and powered by a BMW straight-six engine.
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Thankfully, his newest falls well above "sending a Roadster to space" on the Utility Index: Musk wants to put games in the touchscreens of his cars.
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Now, just because I was driving the Vantage GT Roadster in a most uncivilized manner doesn't mean the car itself is uncouth — quite the contrary, actually.
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Elon Musk's "one more thing" moment to show off the new Tesla Roadster at the automaker's Semi event wasn't just impressive — it was (potentially) record setting.
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Besides watching the race, Penske and his father got to attend a luncheon where Roger posed for a photo in a roadster used in the race.
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Mercedes just teased a new car on its AMG Instagram page that looks an awful lot like a roadster version of its AMG GT sports car.
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Those are the things that wowed customers and wooed investors to Tesla in the first place, and the Roadster might help the company do it again.
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Musk famously swapped places with the first person to place an order on the Model 3, and launched his own first-generation Tesla Roadster into space.
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The past spring, I'd sampled a 2019 BMW Z4 sDrive30i, a roadster version of the Supra coupé, built on the same assembly line as the Toyota.
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Paper Chase On a cold December night in 1926, Agatha Christie went out in her beloved Morris Cowley roadster and didn't return home for 11 days.
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Agatha Christie: On a cold December night in 1926, the novelist went out in her beloved Morris Cowley roadster and didn't return home for 11 days.
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The payload on the rocket was a red Tesla Roadster from Elon Musk, the chief executive of both SpaceX and Tesla, which are both California companies.
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All that he has left, he said, is his turquoise 1929 Ford Roadster hot rod, which he managed to tow through the flames as he escaped.
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Three new vehicles are in development at Tesla: the Model Y, a new $200,000 Roadster and an electric heavy-duty truck that Musk unveiled last November.
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We definitely want to travel the world, I want to buy my Tesla Roadster when I'm 30 and we want to have a lot more fun.
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In contrast, a different seller at the same auction decided to take just $137,000 for a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 190SL roadster, despite an estimate of $303,000.
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Though who knows just who and what could make a comeback: In 2017, Tesla announced that a new version of its Roadster would arrive in 2020.
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Villanueva holds numerous patents and helped design the battery modules that power all of Tesla's vehicles, including the Roadster, Model S, Model X and Model 3.
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Bry likened the R1 to the Tesla Roadster — a necessary first product to build a foundation to an eventual more consumer-friendly product: the Skydio 20203.
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The new Plaid powertrain, which employs three electric motors instead of two, will be available in the Model S, Model X, and the second-generation Roadster.
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Aston Martin just unveiled its new, gorgeous drop-top Vantage Roadster with 503 horsepower, along with what the automaker claims to be the world's quickest convertible roof.
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The Pagani Huaryua Roadster can reach speeds upwards of 238 miles per hour and it can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds.
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And that Roadster, silently blasting David Bowie from its speakers in the soundless vacuum of space, will stay in orbit for a billion years, according to Musk.
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That makes the $200,000 Roadster look like a steal—but if you want to take a super-fast EV off-roading, it'll probably be your only option.
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The only comparable cars to the Roadster are the hybrid supercars built by McLaren (P1), Ferrari (LaFerrari), and Porsche (918 Spyder), which all cost around $1 million.
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It was also just about the coolest way to get to school in the morning: pulling up in a red roadster with a beautiful fold-down windshield.
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BMW says it will make an purely battery-electric version of its i8 Roadster, while the Porsche Mission E is expected to go on sale in 2019.
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Once it separates, the Roadster will apparently coast, exposed, in a hyperbolic orbit on its way to — and eventually beyond — Mars at around seven miles per second.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this afternoon and soared to space, carrying its payload — CEO Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster — into orbit.
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Initially, the double-secret Roadster reward seemed like it might be a put-on buried deep in the Tesla app, but Tesla confirmed that it's for real.
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That would make it one of the quickest cars in existence, quicker than the next-generation Tesla Roadster with its comparatively sluggish 0–60 in 1.9 seconds.
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The Model Y is just one of many projects in the pipeline for Tesla, which also launched a Tesla Semi and a new Roadster in recent months.
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Here are the current leaders in each of the speed categories highlighted by Musk, which will hold tight to their records until the Roadster can beat them.
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Falcon Heavy was first tested last February, with a dummy payload of a Tesla Roadster and a mannequin dubbed "Starman," now somewhere past the orbit of Mars.
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I had a chance to use a TT Roadster for a few days recently, the first time I've used the virtual cockpit in a real driving environment.
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Full self-driving, Model Y, Semi, Truck and Roadster on the vehicle side and Powerwall/pack and Solar Roof on the energy side are only the start.
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Blake Lively is introduced in this thriller riding in a rugged roadster and peering at a smartphone while a scraggly-bearded, longhaired driver navigates rough forest terrain.
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When Elon Musk's company started out, it was selling a single car, and not very many of them: the original Roadster, with volumes in three-digit territory.
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The Roadster and Semi definitely distracted from the Model 3 issues, but it could prove to be a major car crash for Tesla in the long run.
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After shooting a copy of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy into space with Elon Musk's roadster, a Texas-based foundation plans to fire a library to the Moon.
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Tesla tried it with its proof of concept Roadster more than a decade ago, but ran into reliability challenges and has stuck with single-speeds ever since.
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TBL: It seems like Tesla's early cars — the 2008 Roadster and the 2012 Model S — were lauded for their innovative designs and were well-received by customers.
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Its cargo included a Tesla Roadster — which now looks like a sign of Musk's midlife crisis — and a digital copy of the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov.
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The freshly wed couple pulled away from church in a vintage Porsche Roadster ... and then it was time to party on the beachfront at the Ritz Carlton.
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Aston Martin unveiled a new limited-run roadster on March 4 called the V12 Speedster — it's got lots of design quirks, but let's start with the obvious.
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The Roadster Sport also comes fully decked out with a rack for carrying your stuff and fenders to protect you and your bike from dirty, wet streets.
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Shortly after the launch, Musk tweeted out the view of "Starman," the crash dummy in the front seat of the Roadster, named after the David Bowie song.
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A 20003 Duesenberg SSJ Roadster also sold Friday at Gooding & Co. for $22 million, breaking the record for the most expensive American car ever sold at auction.
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To illustrate the massive range, Musk pointed out that Roadster drivers could manage a trip from LA to San Francisco, then back to LA — all without recharging.
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PST: Elon Musk has walked back his claim that he intends to send a Tesla Roadster to orbit Mars with the upcoming launch of the Falcon Heavy.
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If you look up in the sky and think you see a shooting star — you might just be looking at Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster floating in space.
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The Roadster was launched into orbit aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6 and is currently in orbit around the Sun, 3 million miles from Earth.
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Jaguar Land Rover Classic brought the electric roadster to woo potential customers for its E-Type Reborn program during the festivities surrounding the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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NASA Has Officially Listed Musk&aposs Tesla Roadster As a Celestial ObjectYou may remember that, as a publicity stunt, SpaceX propelled a red Tesla, driven by a dummy in a…Read more ReadLike others, Krebs suspects that the recent publicity afforded to SpaceX during the launch of the Tesla Roadster into space—which the company broadcast for hours without license—may have had something to do with it.
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The shiny red Roadster is headed towards an elliptical orbit some 250 million miles from Earth, where it will orbit the Sun for hundreds of millions of years.
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The 550 cars on the racing entry list include a 1911 National Speedway Roadster, Formula 1 cars from the 1970s and BMWs, Porsches and Ferraris from the 1980s.
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Of that $2.2 billion total, $768 million was customer deposits for vehicles like the Model 3, Model Y, second generation Roadster, Tesla Semi, and the company's energy products.
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The second-generation Roadster wasn't completely unexpected, though: Musk has hinted at a revival of the sports car that established his company's reputation for performance-oriented electric cars.
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Bry compares the R1 to a Tesla Roadster, in that it packs in a bunch of forward-looking tech into an enthusiast product with a high price tag.
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He also figured out the next time the Roadster gets "close" to Earth is in March of 2021, when it passes within 28 million miles of our planet.
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The Roadster essentially forced a number of automakers' hands: they now had to compete on electric cars or look like gas-guzzling, planet-destroying jerks who couldn't innovate.
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The series of photos, posted to Instagram, show the Roadster attached to a fitting and placed between the two halves of the payload fairing that caps the rocket.
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The publisher cited an orbit-modeling study, which suggested the Roadster could possibly even collide with either Venus or Earth — but not for at least 1 million years.
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Lamborghini Centenario Roadster As awe-inspiring as the car is, what is perhaps even more astounding is that all 20 Centenario Roadsters were sold before it even debuted.
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Understandably, the crowd was in awe when Musk revealed the new Roadster, which has a look inside and out that owes a lot to classic sports car design.
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It's also planning to sell a Model Y crossover by the end of 2020, has already unveiled a new version of the Tesla Roadster and a Semi truck.
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Treasures long secreted in departmental galleries have come to the center ring, like the Jaguar E-Type Roadster that dominates, perhaps a little too completely, the 21961 gallery.
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The decision to surprise reveal the next-generation Tesla Roadster at the Tesla Semi truck announcement turned the event into one of the company's most vibrant unveiling parties.
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Similar to the 2011 model the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster has been fitted with a 6.3-liter V8 engine that gives it a horsepower of 563.
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Musk has previously teased other possible Roadster features on Twitter, including the ability to customize the car horn and replace it with fart noises or goat sound effects.
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A Tesla fan tweeted at Elon Musk Wednesday with a modest request for the new Tesla Roadster: a socket near the driver meant to hold the key fob.
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I faced this problem firsthand while working at Tesla on the first Roadster battery, and it's the reason why Gleb Yushin, Alex Jacobs and I founded Sila Nanotechnologies.
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Rows of batteries propel the roadster to a top speed of about 1503 miles per hour and carry it as far as 200 miles on a single charge.
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Set the Roadster to 1 and you'll have to pedal to keep up with traffic since the throttle only adds a small amount of zip to your ride.
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The Lotus-based Tesla Roadster, with its six-figure price tag and 3.7 second zero to 60 acceleration established that, indeed, electric cars could be exciting and desirable.
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These so-called supercars include Tesla's upcoming Roadster Founder Series, which will sell for over $200,000 and the Rimac Concept Two, priced in the region of $2 million.
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Tesla plans to deliver the new Roadster in 2020, but where they plan on building the car and how much it will cost are discussions for another day.
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Musk's outrageous gimmick of putting a red Tesla Roadster convertible on board SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket that soared into orbit recently was more than brilliant cross-promotional marketing.
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The successful test flight even included a nod to Elon Musk's other company: The payload included a cherry-red Tesla Roadster, with a mannequin ("Starman") at the wheel.
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BMW's electric i8 Roadster is a two-door sports car convertible that comes with the added flourish of butterfly doors that open up for an extra luxury aesthetic.
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SpaceX successfully landed all three boosters that propelled the rocket, but the rocket's second stage, with the Roadster on top, was launched into an orbit around the sun.
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Here&aposs a closer look at the Tesla that fathered all that followed, from the Model S to Model X, Model 3, Semi, Cybertruck, and forthcoming New Roadster.
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The original Roadster hit the street in 2008, after several years of development by an upstart Silicon Valley automaker called Tesla, after Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor.
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The puppy appeared in a video with Ms. Cerny while Logan Paul took an interest in the purple car, a three-wheeled vehicle that looks like a roadster.
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Even a perfectly restored Series 1 roadster, with covered headlights and dashboard toggle switches, "is a $250,000 car," says Mr. Trenery, whose company, Fantasy Junction in Emeryville, Calif.
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In one well-worn tale recounted by Leavy, Ruth spends a day in a Manhattan lockup, having been caught speeding around the city in his maroon torpedo roadster.
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Earlier this year, the Arch Mission Foundation managed to include a quartz storage device containing Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy on the Tesla Roadster that SpaceX launched towards the sun.
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Tesla is planning to produce the Model Y by fall 2020 and it has a slate of other products on the docket, including the new Roadster and Tesla Semi.
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But the best, for them, was yet to come: Musk told the crowd that the new roadster, a four-seater, will go from zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds.
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It's worth pointing out here that Audi started working on self-driving cars a year after Tesla was founded — and four years before the Tesla's first car, the Roadster.
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Musk revealed that the payload inside the rocket will be his own Tesla Roadster (in midnight cherry color, no less) which launch while playing Space Oddity by David Bowie.
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These announcements follow on the heels of the reveals of the Porsche Mission E concept and the BMW i8 roadster, and McLaren's intentions to spend $2.1 billion on electrification.
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The Tesla CEO informed Twitter followers on Wednesday that he is not joking about using rocket thrusters to get his upcoming Tesla Roadster to fly— or at least hover.
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Calm and impossibly cool (he is a dummy with no actual human emotions, after all), Starman cruised into space listening to Bowie's "Space Oddity" blaring on the Roadster speakers.
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And more modest archives have already been launched into low-Earth orbit as well as aboard the red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk sent hurtling towards Mars last year.
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Also, we get a good look at the planned payload deployment – which is basically SpaceX sending the original Tesla Roadster into a course for a wide, looping Mars orbit.
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Beyond offering some protection from market upheaval, having a crazy amount of money lets you ask Aston Martin to spend nine months building a one-of-a-kind roadster.
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Richard's now ex-wife, Suzanne, will get to keep all of her bank accounts plus the 2019 Mercedes SL 450 roadster ... according to new divorce docs, obtained by TMZ.
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Previous Falcon Heavy launches each carried a single large payload—a Tesla roadster and an Arab telecommunication satellite—but this launch will carry two dozen satellites into Earth orbit.
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A quick trawl through the #FakeX hashtag on Twitter and YouTube will yield dozens of theories about how the deployment of Musk's Tesla roadster into interplanetary space never happened.
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"These engineers were just brainiacs," he said, adding that he once watched a Tesla engineer drive a Roadster from the passenger's seat after plugging his computer into the car.
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On board the Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk sent hurtling towards the sun, aiming for a long, leisurely Earth-Mars orbit, there were a few pieces of miscellaneous cargo.
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Musk joked in this 2015 blog post that there is "one speed faster than ludicrous, but that is reserved for the next generation Roadster in 4 years: maximum plaid."
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Tesla might have had too much in the pipeline—the Semi, the revamped Roadster, and the Model Y are all due out next year—to focus on this truck.
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Family members followed the fire truck in Mr. Heller's immaculately restored 1932 Plymouth roadster with, as per his request, a set of plastic testicles dangling from the rear bumper.
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The few who can fix a Model S, and even fewer who can fix a Roadster, are left to buy "parts cars," and salvage parts from used Tesla vehicles.
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At a November 2017 event, Tesla unveiled prototypes of both the new Roadster, which Musk said would have a battery range of 620 miles, and the Semi electric truck.
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During Falcon Heavy's widely watched debut flight in February 20153, in which it launched CEO Elon Musk's own Tesla Roadster into orbit, only the two side boosters were recovered.
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If you are receiving this email in error, no longer own a Roadster or need to update your contact information, please let us know by replying to this email.
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According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a Tesla Roadster will make the first trip to Mars, with its stereo cranked to 11, playing David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on loop.
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The same day the reports came out, Musk tweeted that the upcoming Tesla Roadster will beat the overall record for any car, electric or gas, on the Nürburgring Nordshschleife.
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"The club evolved from Roadster to Model S and I think it will evolve again because there will be a different type of Tesla user, an expanded user," she said.
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In the nine years since Tesla's been selling electric cars, it's put roughly 230,000, give or take a few thousand, Roadster, Model S and Model X Teslas on the road.
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About that Tesla Roadster 2.0: Musk says it goes 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds, with a max speed of 250 mph, making this one of the fastest surprises ever.
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Estimated price: $21000,212 - $21750,21000 Jimmy Knight built this roadster in 211928 to compete in world of "midget" racing---the term for smaller, more affordable versions of full-size race cars.
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Estimated price: $650,000 - $750,21750 Jimmy Knight built this roadster in 22 to compete in world of "midget" racing---the term for smaller, more affordable versions of full-size race cars.
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And attached to that engine you have a body that you can customise to your needs — you could have a four-wheeler, a sporty roadster or just a normal sedan.
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But the roadster was a one-off stunt, sent up purely as a show of dominance — or a way to placate shareholders and those still waiting on their personal cars.
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But SpaceX CEO Elon Musk thought this would be just too boring, so instead he launched an all-electric Tesla Roadster, with the daring Starman strapped into the driver seat.
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When Musk rattled through the numbers onstage, he claimed that all of them have been achieved by the Roadster prototype, and they'd stand as new records for a production car.
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It's a plan that appears to be working for Tesla, which started selling the Roadster in 2008 for more than $100,000 but launched the $35,000 Model 3 this past spring.
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Streaming live via the Virtual Telescope Project, an Italy-based project dedicated to streaming real-time telescope footage online, you'll be able to see Musk's Tesla Roadster disappear from view.
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The cherry red Roadster has already passed the moon, and McDowell estimates that the vehicle will hit its farthest away point from the sun — somewhere past Mars — in November 2018.
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A 2014 Lamborghini Veneno Roadster fetched about $8.4 million at an auction in Switzerland in September, making it the world's most expensive Lamborghini ever auctioned, according to the auction house.
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The Falcon's payload was a red Tesla roadster playing an infinite loop of "Space Oddity" with a dummy in it, which then floated around Earth—its final destination is Mars.
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The Roadster version of the car recently fetched $8.4 million at a Bonhams auction in Switzerland in September, making it the most expensive Lamborghini ever auctioned off, according to Bonhams.
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YouTube star Ben Sullins, who has facilitated over $10 million in Tesla sales, has scored the biggest prize available from Tesla's referral program: a free Founder's Series Next Gen Roadster.
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Linus Roadster Sport Brompton M6L folding bike City commuters love the convenience of space-saving folding bikes, but a smooth and easy-to-use folding mechanism can be an investment.
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The company, known for its unique rotary engine and its MX-5 roadster, has tried to differentiate itself by promising a smoother ride which characterises many of its existing vehicles.
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Arriving in 2000, and, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said, designed to "give a hardcore smack-down to gasoline cars," the new all-electric Roadster will have world-record-beating specs.
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The company unveiled its Centenario Roadster in California, and said the company had already sold the 20 roadsters it was building at a starting price of 2 million euros before taxes.
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Musk has previously claimed the Roadster will be able to hit 60 mph from rest in 1.9 seconds and reach a top speed of over 250 mph in its standard configuration.
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The photo shows what seems to be a red Tesla Roadster atop a Payload Attach Fitting (PAF)—one that looks virtually identical to the PAF shown in SpaceX's Falcon User's Guide.
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Musk unveiled one flashy strategy for generating cash during the launch event Thursday for the Semi truck, surprising the audience with a prototype of a new generation of the Tesla Roadster.
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It was the new, previously unannounced Tesla Roadster, and the crowd could hardly believe their good fortune at getting to see this brand-new car before anyone else in the world.
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Up above the atmosphere, the rocket's second stage opened its fairing to reveal its cargo: a red roadster made by Tesla, a company which, like SpaceX, is run by Elon Musk.
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Last week, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced bold plans to combine the technologies of his two biggest companies by placing rocket thrusters on future specialized models of Tesla's Roadster.
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You can currently watch the dummy in SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, which is attached to the Falcon Heavy's upper stage, make its way toward its eventual orbit around Mars.
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At about three minutes after liftoff, the center core broke away from the upper stage — the top portion of the rocket that is carrying the Falcon Heavy's payload, Musk's Tesla Roadster.
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Any issuance will be off Roadster Finance DAC's Euro Medium Term Note Programme with an instrument rating of Baa3 (stable) by Moody's and an expected rating of BBB- (stable) by Fitch.
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Never one to miss a marketing opportunity, Musk's spaceship will carry a roadster from Tesla, his electric car company, into space, where it will orbit the sun for millions of years.
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That's right: As we reported earlier, a Tesla Roadster playing David Bowie's "Life On Mars" (a little on the nose, Elon) is soaring through space and headed toward – where else – Mars.
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It passed off the most recent SC coupe and roadster as a sports car, a prissy slope-backed thing that never managed more than 2467 horsepower despite a V-2389 engine.
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SpaceX apparently originally planned for the Roadster to end up orbiting through the solar system, getting pretty close to Mars every so often — and we know Musk has big Mars plans.
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The attention he secured through the rocket launch was magnified by a subsequent video feed, depicting his red Tesla roadster cruising through space after being released from the rocket's delivery bay.
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Somewhere in space, a mannequin wearing a SpaceX spacesuit and driving a cherry red original Tesla Roadster that once belonged to Elon Musk is celebrating its first trip around the Sun.
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Elon Musk shared images on his Instagram account today of the payload being loaded up on the first Falcon Heavy rocket that will ever launch – and it's a red Tesla Roadster.
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Tesla is the first successful American car startup in decades, and its first two cars — the Roadster and the Model S — have dramatically raised the profile and prestige of electric vehicles.
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It was originally supposed to be used in Tesla Roadster, but Musk now claims it will also appear on Tesla Model S and X (not Model 3 or Y, though). Yes.
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In fact, if you want the next cheapest roadster that drives as well as a Miata, you'll probably be spending upwards of $60,000 on something with a Porsche badge on it.
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The company's CEO, Elon Musk, a consummate showman, used the Falcon Heavy to launch a used Tesla Roadster electric sports car, with a space-suited mannequin dubbed "Starman," into interplanetary space.
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And the electric roadster does indeed drive much like any impeccably restored E-Type, with alert steering, strong four-wheel disc brakes and what, in 1961, amounted to a silken ride.
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Meanwhile, Musk's other company, SpaceX, is preparing for the imminent launch of its biggest rocket, the Falcon Heavy — its cross-promotional payload will include a cherry-red Roadster built by Tesla.
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Electric carmaker Tesla unveiled a sleek electric semi truck with semi-autonomous capabilities and a new roadster Thursday evening in a flashy live-streamed event at its design studio in Hawthorne, California.
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As for the flying bit, while the Roadster may be capable of small jumps, Musk has previously spoken against the idea of true flying cars, saying they'd be too noisy and dangerous.
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By Musk's own admission, the early years of Tesla — from the Roadster to the Model X — were in service of laying the groundwork for building and selling a mass-market electric vehicle.
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Tesla, of course, has grabbed headlines with its Model S, Semi, and new Roadster, but when it comes to autonomous tech, Waymo, Uber, and Lyft are all nipping at the company's heels.
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Tesla's original Roadster also supported the functionality before it was removed in later models, and last year its CEO Elon Musk mused that the company could bring it back in the future.
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The proposed roadster trip falls more in line with other whimsical first launch payloads, such as the return cargo of the first Dragon flight in 2010 including a wheel of Gruyère cheese.
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When Ferrari first put the California moniker to one of its cars in 29, it did so with images Hollywood stars casually careening a bright-red roadster along sunny, beach-side highways.
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The 22016 interpretation of the latest and greatest in automotive engineering takes the form of a hardtop coupe that, thanks to its folding convertible roof, transforms into a roadster in 073 seconds.
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The 32nd Tesla Roadster part of the limited Validation Prototype series is up for sale on eBay— but for $1 million, the car will set your bank account back quite a bit.
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Production isn't slated to begin until 2020, but if Tesla can match its claimed specs for the Roadster, it should strike fear in the hearts of every supercar maker currently building cars.
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If you really want to know, the Roadster is now over 1.8 million miles (over 3 million kilometers) from Earth, according to Pearson's website, which uses data from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The Roadster showed that it was possible to make a good-looking performance car that car people would want to buy on its merits, whether or not they cared about the environment.
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Clearly, though, this is something the company is thinking hard about and today, at its inaugural NextGen event, the company showed its newest electric concept bike, the BMW Motorrad Vision DC Roadster.
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That highly anticipated launch captivated crowds across the world on February 248, as it ascended through the atmosphere, carrying Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster (and a dummy driver, Starman) into space.
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Musk also praised owners of the Tesla Roadster, Model S, and Model X, saying they are "the ones who got us here" and have paid for the development of the Model 3.
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That was the year Nissan Motor Co rolled out the Leaf, the first mass-production all battery EV, and just after Tesla Inc came out with the Roadster, its first production car.
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Sure, your level 140 Roadster might be able to take on a field of level 150 opponents if you play very well, but if there's a 20+ level difference, things get rough.
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The "Plaid" powertrain, as Musk and Tesla's Twitter account called it, will be available on the Model S sedan, Model X SUV, and Roadster sports car in about a year, Musk said.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk surprised fans and investors last week with the unveiling of a $22020,2250 Roadster that he claimed could go from 2000 to 60 miles per hour in 1.9 seconds.
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Tesla is already taking $50,000 deposits for the Roadster, which is set to be released in 2020, and is asking people to pay a $250,000 upfront for the special Founders Series Roadsters.
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Chinese electric vehicle startup Qiantu Motor is planning to compete with Tesla — and a slew of other Chinese EV upstarts — with its all-electric K50 roadster, company chairman Lu Qun told Bloomberg.
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The Plaid powertrain will eventually be included in future versions of Tesla's Model S, Model X and Roadster vehicles, but not its Model 3 or Model Y, according to CEO Elon Musk.
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Nancy Drew, the girl detective who could pick a lock, play the bagpipes, tap Morse Code in high heels and drive her blue roadster like a Daytona champ, turns 21995 next year.
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Depending on the number of people referred, prizes included cash, racing a Tesla Semi on a test track, driving a Boring Company tunnel digging machine or discounts on a new Tesla Roadster.
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Tesla recently announced that it would revise its service relationship with owners of its original Roadster, while simultaneously encouraging them to considering trading in Tesla&aposs first car for a new model.
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Similar to how SpaceX broadcast video of a spacesuit-clad "Starman" in a Tesla roadster launched by its Falcon Heavy rocket last year, there will be cameras inside the Crew Dragon capsule.
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This will be the first launch for SpaceX since the debut launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket, which delivered a Tesla Roadster and a manikin named Starman to space back on February 6.
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At the end of the event, Musk also presented the company's new four-seat roadster, a car with 27 miles of range that can go from zero to 28 mph in 1.8 seconds.
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The electric vehicle manufacturer unveiled early sketches of what the pickup truck would look like last November, at an event held by the firm where it unveiled its semitruck and Roadster sports car.
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As employee number seven at Tesla, he helmed the team that designed the lithium-ion battery pack for the company's first car, the Roadster, which convinced the world to take electric vehicles seriously.
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Besides working on its new Model Y and Shanghai factory, Tesla is also developing on a Semi truck, an electric pickup truck, a new generation of the Tesla Roadster and automated driving features.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musks cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 53 debut test flight, blasted off from Floridas Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musks cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 2018 debut test flight, blasted off from Floridas Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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On the heels of unveiling the Tesla all-electric semi-truck and a second-generation Roadster in November, Elon Musk took to Twitter today to ask his fans how Tesla can further improve.
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One customer had his Roadster waiting at a Tesla service center for over a year because the component it required, a 400-volt controller, wasn't available according to records Medlock shared with CNBC.
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Typically, people go to Medlock & Sons to fix their crashed Roadsters, or to have their Roadster electronics rebuilt, ceramic coatings painted on, or to have sound reduction, custom audio or custom headlights installed.
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While BMW's electrification roadmap extends well beyond 2020, in the immediate future the new Mini will be joined by a MBW i8 Roadster in 2018, and an all-electric X3 starting in 2020.
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Who wouldn't want to see a field of drivers competing in race-ready versions of the P100D, Jaguar I-Pace, Porsche Mission E, Aston Martin RapidE, or hell, even the new Tesla Roadster?
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Musk, being the teasing entrepreneur that he is, just posted three photos to Instagram showing that very Roadster with a noteworthy passenger behind the wheel: a dummy wearing the new SpaceX space suit.
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You can also follow the car's path around the Sun from today to almost the end of 2020, and check when the Roadster will be getting particularly close to Mars or the Earth.
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Within the next decade, the Roadster will make its closest approach to Mars in October of 2020, coming within 4.3 million miles, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard and spaceflight expert.
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"That vehicle is going to be famous without having to shoot it up in space," Farley said, alluding to the roadster Tesla CEO Elon Musk launched recently with one of his SpaceX rockets.
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The company launched a Tesla roadster near the orbit of Mars earlier this year, and SpaceX CEO claims its next big rocket, the BFR, will be ready for early testing by next year.
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He's making some final inspections of the cargo, it seems, including a new addition to the cherry red Tesla Roadster that's going to be on board in the cargo area atop the rocket.
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There are cameras mounted on the Tesla Roadster the dummy is "driving," which was the primary payload for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch, which went off almost perfectly as planned by SpaceX earlier today.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 2018 debut test flight, blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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California-based electric automaker Tesla Motors began producing the Roadster in 2008, which was the first highway-capable, all-electric vehicle for mass sale in the U.S. Other major automakers quickly followed suit.
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He currently has five garages, according to his Instagram post, and uses the platform to share images of his collection, which includes a brown Porsche 911 Turbo and an orange BMW i8 Roadster.
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That debt will come due as Tesla needs more capital to increase Model 3 production and start work on new products, including an updated Roadster, a new Model Y vehicle and the Semi.
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A new video Tesla posted to YouTube shows an image of an unnamed vehicle partially hidden by a sheet, and footage of passengers reacting to the acceleration of Tesla's planned second-generation Roadster.
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk famously launched a Tesla roadster when testing the Falcon Heavy last year, which resulted in some of the most spectacular images ever to come out of the space age.
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An Instagram post by Musk on Monday, captioned "Starman in Red Roadster," showed a photograph of a mannequin in a white spacesuit at the wheel of the Tesla, and the convertible top down.
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By comparison, the Tesla Roadster is a meaningless corporate gimmick, but it's pretty amazing that we've gotten to the point where space can be a little frivolous and — dare I say it — fun!
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The car is a vintage silver-blue 1968 Jaguar E-Type Roadster with one crucial, and major, modification: Its famous six-cylinder gasoline-powered XK motor was replaced with an all-electric drivetrain.
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Within the next decade, the roadster will make its closest approach to Mars in October of 2020, coming within 4.3 million miles, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard and spaceflight expert.
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To be fair, Ripley is probably just missing Starman, the similar-looking space-suited dummy driving Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster in an elliptical orbit around Mars that was launched last year.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 53 debut test flight, blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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It will use three electric motors rather than the two currently in vehicles equipped with Ludicrous, and will be available on Tesla's Model S, X and, later, in the Roadster, Musk has Tweeted.
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The portfolio also includes Van Der Zee's best known photograph: a portrait of a stylish couple attired in expensive raccoon fur coats, posing on a Harlem street with an ornate 2003 Cadillac roadster.
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