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Tesla finally unveils its new Roadster… and claims it can ‘fly’
► Tesla finally reveals its new Roadster
► Active aero, ground effect fans and ‘cold gas thrusters’
► And, because it’s Tesla, it claims to ‘fly’
Tesla has officially unveiled its new Roadster, after quite possibly one of the longest development delays in automotive history.
The new, wedge-shaped Roadster is a two-seat electric supercar that looks about as ultra-minimalist as you can get, with clean and flat surfaces all round and an almost Lamborghini Diablo/Lotus Esprit-like silhouette.
Tesla says the windows are designed to mimic the copper coating given to spacesuit visors, while titanium is used as a material elsewhere. It’s also worth pointing out that this new Roadster model looks entirely different from the swoopy and curvy model that had been teased for years.
What lies beneath the clean surfacing are scissor doors and a whopping rear wing that deploys to massively increase downforce at speed. But that’s not all when it comes to downforce, with powerful ground effect fans sucking the Roadster onto the road. So much so that Tesla performed a stunt at the unveil event that saw a Roadster climb a ramp, stop vertically and then continue onward until the car was upside down – still attached to the ramp.
Because this is Tesla we’re talking about, that’s just the start. There is a ‘base’ Performance model that comes with plenty of power, with two more versions named Thrust and Rocket using cold gas ‘thrusters’. The Thrust model has four of them pointed out of the back of the car; deploying these thrusters allows Tesla to claim a sub-one-second 0-60mph time due to the additional force applied by those gas tanks.
The Rocket spec goes one further, adding more gas thrusters around the car that allow it to, for lack of a better word, ‘fly.’ Or at least according to Tesla’s promo stunt, anyway. The unveil showed the car using these thrusters to lift itself off the ground, do barrel rolls and more. ‘This will be an actual car that is on the road,’ says Elon Musk. ‘Though I’m not sure this one is legal in all jurisdictions.’
Inside, the Roadster has a yoke-like steering wheel and steer-by-wire tech like the Cybertruck. It’s exclusively a two-seater (or a one-seater if you choose that Rocket version with its not-road-legal extra thrusters) with microsuede upholstery.
Want one? You can sink a £5000 deposit onto one now, with Tesla demanding another £45k just 10 days later. We don’t have a final price just yet, but you can imagine it won’t be cheap given those initial payments.
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