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Tesla Roadster Reveal!
The craziest thing I have ever seen.. No way will the DOT approve that jet/rocket engine to be street legal..
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· 2w
Usually they reserve releases such as this for the next James Bond trailer. Since the Broccoli's sold the franchise they probably had to do what they had to do....🙃
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Almost too crazy to believe. I would imagine that the production model might be missing those thrusters. I couldn't help but think of Turbonique.
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Turbonique is always good for a decent conversation. Amazing how many guys have never heard of it given how often it comes up.
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You beat me to it. I've been reading reviews all day. Forget the rockets, this is a great looking car. I pray it makes it to production.
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Amazing demonstration but no way that car goes to production like that. The numbers that are quoting for non rocket mode are of course impressive if they are real. 2 second zero to 60, top speed of 230 mph.
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So was that actually real? Was there a driver in the car? It almost looks like AI to me.
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I believe it was real.. but I agree it looked fake as I couldn't see thrusters except on bottom and rear of car.. I would think when it flipped upside down it would fall like a rock..
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From GROK:
On October 15, 2026, Tesla held a live event (livestreamed on X and YouTube) at SpaceX’s rocket test facility in McGregor, Texas. A prototype of the redesigned next-generation Roadster performed these stunts in front of an audience:
theverge.com
Drove up a tall curved/inverted ramp and stayed attached while upside down using a fan-based suction system (claimed up to ~2G of downforce).
Used SpaceX-derived cold-gas thrusters (compressed air stored in high-pressure tanks, with multiple nozzles) to launch off the ramp, perform mid-air flips/barrel rolls, and land under control.
Jumped over a lineup of other Tesla vehicles (including a Semi) with a flip.
Accelerated from 0–60 mph in a claimed 0.81 seconds with thruster assist.
Snopes fact-checked the videos and rated them authentic (True). They were not AI-generated or digitally faked. There was a live audience, independent media coverage, and attendees posted their own footage. Elon Musk noted the in-person crowd helped prove it wasn’t AI.
On October 15, 2026, Tesla held a live event (livestreamed on X and YouTube) at SpaceX’s rocket test facility in McGregor, Texas. A prototype of the redesigned next-generation Roadster performed these stunts in front of an audience:
theverge.com
Drove up a tall curved/inverted ramp and stayed attached while upside down using a fan-based suction system (claimed up to ~2G of downforce).
Used SpaceX-derived cold-gas thrusters (compressed air stored in high-pressure tanks, with multiple nozzles) to launch off the ramp, perform mid-air flips/barrel rolls, and land under control.
Jumped over a lineup of other Tesla vehicles (including a Semi) with a flip.
Accelerated from 0–60 mph in a claimed 0.81 seconds with thruster assist.
Snopes fact-checked the videos and rated them authentic (True). They were not AI-generated or digitally faked. There was a live audience, independent media coverage, and attendees posted their own footage. Elon Musk noted the in-person crowd helped prove it wasn’t AI.
· 2w
TeslaInsider.com: Tesla’s Roadster targets a claimed 330 mph top speed and gets a dedicated E Boost button, a new MotorTrend video reveals. The separate push to pass button gives drivers an extra burst of power on demand, a feature borrowed straight from motorsport. The 330 mph figure, however, depends on the car’s pressure tank, the same nitrogen system that feeds its SpaceX inspired thrusters. MotorTrend also found two removable roof panels, with rear storage space available on cars without the pressure tank. The windscreen wiper is a plug in, quick release unit, and the charge port is cleverly hidden behind the rear wing to keep the body clean. To save weight, Tesla has gone with manually adjusted seats and pedals instead of powered units. The Roadster will also offer a limited version of FSD, though Tesla has not yet explained exactly what those restrictions will be, which is notable for a car Tesla has called its last human driven model. The details build on what Tesla engineering chief Lars Moravy shared with Hagerty, including over 1,340 HP, 1,400Nm of torque and a 600 liter nitrogen tank in the Rocket version.
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This is out of my league but the video does not look real.
· 2w
Amazing. Can't be street legal, can it?
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Crazy" wasn’t even the word that popped into my head—it felt more like sheer absurdity. Yet the hype machine clearly worked, because here we are debating it.
Setting the "Musk factor" aside, I've actually appreciate Tesla's cars in the past. Even the Cybertruck—despite its dumpster-chic styling, build quality headaches, reliability gremlins, and cratering resale value—has a weird, utilitarian charm. As for the Roadster? The novelty will evaporate almost immediately. It’s destined to sit in the climate-controlled garages of the ultra-wealthy as glorified, six-figure yard art that rarely touches pavement.
But here’s the real head-scratcher: Tesla is valued at 50 times its legacy competitors while pulling in roughly a third of their revenue, all with a core model lineup that averages nearly a decade old. Musk is looking more and more like a modern-day Preston Tucker—whipping up a media frenzy around the shiny "Car of Tomorrow," but theatrical hype can only outrun fundamentals for so long. Look at BYD: they generate higher gross revenue, deliver roughly three times the volume, and build arguably better, faster-evolving vehicles. Yet BYD's market cap sits around a tenth of Tesla’s valuation.
Full disclosure: I ordered a Slate truck. It’s the complete antithesis of a Tesla Roadster—just a plain-Jane, honest piece of utilitarian transportation. I’ll put more miles on it in a few months than most Roadsters will ever see in a lifetime. Slate carries a private valuation around $1.2B (roughly 1/1,000 of Tesla’s market cap) and projects $2B in revenue by 2027. It’s definitely not a meme-fueled tech darling, and it doesn't have an eccentric billionaire showman—just a grounded product backed by soon-to-be real revenue.
The stock market hype is a hell of a drug, but the math behind Tesla's valuation still makes zero sense.
Setting the "Musk factor" aside, I've actually appreciate Tesla's cars in the past. Even the Cybertruck—despite its dumpster-chic styling, build quality headaches, reliability gremlins, and cratering resale value—has a weird, utilitarian charm. As for the Roadster? The novelty will evaporate almost immediately. It’s destined to sit in the climate-controlled garages of the ultra-wealthy as glorified, six-figure yard art that rarely touches pavement.
But here’s the real head-scratcher: Tesla is valued at 50 times its legacy competitors while pulling in roughly a third of their revenue, all with a core model lineup that averages nearly a decade old. Musk is looking more and more like a modern-day Preston Tucker—whipping up a media frenzy around the shiny "Car of Tomorrow," but theatrical hype can only outrun fundamentals for so long. Look at BYD: they generate higher gross revenue, deliver roughly three times the volume, and build arguably better, faster-evolving vehicles. Yet BYD's market cap sits around a tenth of Tesla’s valuation.
Full disclosure: I ordered a Slate truck. It’s the complete antithesis of a Tesla Roadster—just a plain-Jane, honest piece of utilitarian transportation. I’ll put more miles on it in a few months than most Roadsters will ever see in a lifetime. Slate carries a private valuation around $1.2B (roughly 1/1,000 of Tesla’s market cap) and projects $2B in revenue by 2027. It’s definitely not a meme-fueled tech darling, and it doesn't have an eccentric billionaire showman—just a grounded product backed by soon-to-be real revenue.
The stock market hype is a hell of a drug, but the math behind Tesla's valuation still makes zero sense.
· 2w
Peter, to understand Tesla and the market cap you really need a ride in @DuesyGuy 's new Model YL in FSD mode to understand. The world is moving to automated cars and Tesla is far ahead of everyone else.
The other factor driving market cap are the robots. Perry is lined up to buy on to clean his cars.
The other factor driving market cap are the robots. Perry is lined up to buy on to clean his cars.
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The cars are cool. Agreed.
Robots to clean our cars (and other stuff)? Sorry, I don't see the market.
But at 50x market cap of companies like Toyota?
I'm not buying it.
Robots to clean our cars (and other stuff)? Sorry, I don't see the market.
But at 50x market cap of companies like Toyota?
I'm not buying it.
· 2w
Thrusters aside, a lot of buzz about the roadster at the show we went to Saturday. They had two classes for supercars and I thought, given stated acceleration times for the Roadster, these cars all look great but might as well park with the Jag XK150 - a great performer in it's era but not fair to judge against the quickest modern cars...