Tesla's new Roadster flies, flips and hits 60mph in under a second as Musk declares 'flying cars are real'
A Tesla Roadster prototype, which the company first showed in 2017 after promising deliveries by 2020 — a launch that never came.
Elon Musk took the wraps off the long-delayed Tesla Roadster at SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas on Thursday night, a full nine years after the model was first announced. The white two-seater travelled inverted along a ramp, deployed cold-gas thrusters to somersault through the air, and cleared a row of vehicles before touching down safely. Musk declared it would 'crush every track record that has ever existed' and promised production would begin in 2028.
The Roadster, built with SpaceX, is the first Tesla with manual transmission and accelerates from 0-60mph in under a second.
Musk cautioned it is 'not necessarily a safety-optimised car' but said it takes 'the fun meter to 11 out of ten'.
One Tesla investor called the event 'an engineering flex' and said it is 'the latest example of why Elon can't wait' to merge Tesla and SpaceX.
