Oh, the second-gen Tesla Roadster. It was first announced so long ago that images on the original post have been nuked. It’s allegedly going to have rockets and possibly be able to fly and also break the laws of physics, and if we’re being honest, nobody knows whether it will look anything like the concept or not. And yet, on Tesla’s Q2 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said it’s headed for production sometime next year.
When asked about the Roadster, Musk said most of the engineering has been completed even though there are a few upgrades they want to make. Still, he insisted the new Roadster should be ready to go into production in 2025. So there you go, right? Everyone who sent in their $50,000 deposit back in 2017 has been vindicated, and legacy automakers are about to be destroyed. Eat shit, haters. The Roadster is really happening.
Then again, this is Tesla, and you can always assume Elon is lying any time he lays out a timeline for anything. In this particular case, I’m willing to bet we won’t even see a production reveal of the new Roadster in 2025, much less actual deliveries.
If the engineering is only “mostly” done, the Roadster is either going to be a giant piece of shit that eclipses even the Cybertruck when it comes to quality issues, or it’s just not going to happen next year. Every other automaker would be deep into the testing stage by now, and if Tesla was at that point, we would’ve seen a lot more spy shots already.
Take, for example, Porsche’s hybrid 911. The German automaker claims that before it went into production, the new 911 went through three million miles of testing. And that’s just for a new powertrain on a car that’s already in production. Real automakers want to make sure their new vehicles are already good before they start cranking them out, and we’re supposed to believe a Tesla that’s only mostly done is coming out next year? I don’t buy it for a second, and if it does, you definitely shouldn’t actually buy it because it’s going to be a literal dumpster fire.
Like the Cybertruck, a new Roadster will probably come out in some form at some point. I can’t say when that will be because I’m not aware of a drug or technology that lets me see that far into the future. I just don’t buy for a second that Tesla legitimately has anything truly new coming next year. Much like the rest of the earnings call, Elon’s claim that the new Tesla Roadster will go into production next year is 1,000 percent bullshit.